Headscarf and burqa controversies at the crossroad of politics, society and law

Fournier, Pascale

doi:10.1080/13504630.2013.842669

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“…Focusing on differences and similarities between country-level approaches to Islam in the legal and political domains (Koussens and Roy 2014;Ferrari and Pastorelli 2013), they rarely explore the contingent bottom-up framing dynamics in the specific settings from which they emerge. Recently, this comparative approach has been complemented by legal research on public reasoning around the burqa (Amiraux 2013;Spohn 2013;Fournier 2013) offering a nuanced view of the complex legal and political negotiations of the Muslim presence in Western societies.…”

Section: Migration Religious Diversity and Islam In Spainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrating Liberal Rights and Culture: Muslim Face Veiling, Urban Coexistence and Contention in Spain

Burchardt¹,

Griera²,

García-Romeral³

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Drawing on cultural sociology approaches to the role of narrative and framing in politics, this article explores urban contestations over Muslim face veiling in Spain. We argue that regimes of religious diversity are shaped by the ways that the framing and narrating of rights and culture acquire cultural resonance and political traction in urban society. We find that the meanings attached to the face veil and mobilised in public discourses draw on memories and stocks of knowledge emerging from recent histories of urban society. In order to resonate with broader publics and their sensibilities, actors organise these meanings through storylines and integrate them into narratives. We demonstrate that those in favour of the ban on face veiling were able to construct a coherent and expressive narrative around values of social harmony while simultaneously framing it in the language of rights, which allowed them to influence local media and popular discourse in decisive ways. Arguments against the ban, on the contrary, were mostly based on a much narrower rights-based approach that remained abstract and highly difficult to convert into a narrative.

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Section: Migration Religious Diversity and Islam In Spainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrating Liberal Rights and Culture: Muslim Face Veiling, Urban Coexistence and Contention in Spain

Burchardt¹,

Griera²,

García-Romeral³

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…The Court used a dubious legal concept to deny covered women their right to religious expression by claiming that the obstacle to the realization of human rights was the Muslim woman's refusal to comply with European standards of what it means to be able to communicate harmoniously, endorsing old orientalist thinking. This view reflects a secularist rhetoric that posits the Western modern "invention" of face-to-face interaction as a universal signification of civilization (Fournier, 2013). The stress on "living together" could have been rendered compatible with the pluralism and tolerance potentially inscribed in the case if the Court had not insisted that to live together harmoniously depended on Muslim women making a sacrifice.…”

Section: Tak Ing Control? J Urisg Ener Ative P Oliti C S and S Tr Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Precarious bodies: The securitization of the “veiled” woman in European human rights

Edmunds

2020

British Journal of Sociology

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“…These two different, yet connected, examples in a French context, both highlight a challenged secular condition in the post-colonial state. Critique has been directed towards the use of postcolonial theory and left legalism in understanding burqa-bans (Fournier 2013), and hence we see the importance of rethinking issues with a broader postcolonial perspective (Fournier 2013:12). We do not tackle this field of study as scholars on the French Muslim context but rather, as Afsaneh Najmabadi formulates it, acknowledge the need to understand that "the current controversy is in part defined by a historical legacy not of French making alone" (Najmabadi 2006: 240).…”

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(Un-)veiling the west: Burkini-gate, Princess Hijab and dressing as struggle for postsecular integration

Berg

Lundahl

2017

Cult. Unbound

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The ban of the burkini in the summer of 2016 in France is the latest stage in a long political history, where the French depreciation or fear of the veil, and of Islam, has come to play a more significant role since the end of the cold war. Unveiling female bodies at the beach in Nice expose conditioned values of the French republic. In this context, drawing black veils on public advertisements becomes a performative act commenting on consumerism, religion, secularity, and the imagined Muslim woman. In this article we discuss freedom and integration in "third spaces" via an analysis of "hijabisation" in street art and the official reactions against certain types of beachwear. In line with Talal Asad (2006) we want to raise the issue on how the secular state addresses the pain of people who are obliged to give up part of their religious identity to become acceptable. Race-thinking was once an explicit part of celebrated values like modernity, secularity, democracy and human rights. However, the fact that the idea of races has been erased from articulations of Western nations and international bodies does not mean that traces of race-thinking in the heritage from the enlightenment are gone. By following Princess Hijab and the "Burkini-gate" a nationalist fantasy intertwined with the idea of the secular state reveals itself and acts of un/dressing emerge as signs of integration revealing a challenged imperialist paradigm.

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Headscarf and burqa controversies at the crossroad of politics, society and law

Cited by 12 publications

References 19 publications

Narrating Liberal Rights and Culture: Muslim Face Veiling, Urban Coexistence and Contention in Spain

Narrating Liberal Rights and Culture: Muslim Face Veiling, Urban Coexistence and Contention in Spain

Precarious bodies: The securitization of the “veiled” woman in European human rights

(Un-)veiling the west: Burkini-gate, Princess Hijab and dressing as struggle for postsecular integration

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