Active Citizenship among Muslims in Sweden: From Minority Politics to Political Candidacy

Cato, Johan; Otterbeck, Jonas

doi:10.7146/tifo.v8i1.25329

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“…These cognitive operations lie at the heart of what is called cultural racism (Jakku, 2019), which has direct political consequences: the far-right groups in Europe make maximum use of the assumed homogeneity and Otherness of Muslims (Taras 2012), while the idea of 'the Muslim group' makes politicians search for 'the Muslim voice' that can represent 'the group'. People with a Muslim family background and political ambitions may take on the challenge, but it has proven very tricky to navigate due to expectations (Cato and Otterbeck, 2014;Jakku, 2019).…”

Section: What Do We Mean By Muslim and Islamic?mentioning

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Finding the Object of Study: Islamic Studies in Practice

Otterbeck

2021

Intl. J. Rel.

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This article argues that, to understand where to find the study object ‘Islam’ and how to address it, researchers in Islamic studies need to be theoretically and methodologically aware of the importance and implications of power practices. By discussing enunciations associated with Islam, the problems with reification, the importance of power, the cognitive power of naming, and the semiotic resources mobilised by enunciations, the article proposes ways to operationalise grand scale theories by Talal Asad and Michel Foucault, with an especial focus on the understanding of semiotic resources. It also provides an account of the personal journey of the author while trying to relate constructively to the field for the last 30 years.

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Section: What Do We Mean By Muslim and Islamic?mentioning

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Finding the Object of Study: Islamic Studies in Practice

Otterbeck

2021

Intl. J. Rel.

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To Construct Civility or Be Constructed as Anti-civil

Nilsson

2020

Immigrant Incorporation, Education, and the Boundaries of Belonging

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Finding Tactics and Making Space: The Individuals and the Communities

Nordin

Otterbeck²

2023

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In this chapter, we focus on international migration from the perspective of the migrants themselves, examining the different tactics and ways of space making they deploy. We begin with the religious lives of individual migrants, first providing a theoretical presentation of how religion can be understood as an individual yet social phenomenon. Migration changes the social structures of a person’s life in many ways and, as a social phenomenon, religion is likely to go through similar drastic changes in connection with migration. Consequently, we need to know more about religion as a social structure and the function of it. Then we demonstrate how migrants’ religious lives can be understood by addressing the issue of religious practices, how people’s religion relates to integration and, finally, how religious beliefs may be a motivating factor in developing active citizenship.

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Active Citizenship among Muslims in Sweden: From Minority Politics to Political Candidacy

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Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Finding the Object of Study: Islamic Studies in Practice

Finding the Object of Study: Islamic Studies in Practice

To Construct Civility or Be Constructed as Anti-civil

Finding Tactics and Making Space: The Individuals and the Communities

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