Marginalisation, Islamism and The Production of the 'Other's' 'Other'

Mohammad, Robina

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“…Mohammad 2005;Phillips 2009), and access to and experiences of education and employment (e.g. Bowlby and Lloyd-Evans 2009;Dale et al 2002;Mohammad 1999). More recently too, geographers have also been doing research with Muslim men (e.g.…”

Section: Current Trendsmentioning

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Geographical contributions to understanding contemporary Islam: current trends and future directions

Hopkins

2009

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In recent years, geographers have been giving increasing attention to religion-and Islam in particular-yet such work is rarely referred to within the broader social science literature about Islam and Muslims. This paper seeks to promote interdisciplinary dialogue, discussion and debate by highlighting the contributions that human geographers are making to understandings of contemporary Islam. In particular, I draw upon research within urban, social, cultural and feminist geographies to review current trends within geographical scholarship about Muslims individuals and communities. I then use this paper to suggest ways in which interdisciplinary research-in collaboration with human geographers-might seek to advance contemporary understandings of the social and spatial experiences of Muslim families and communities. I propose that a focus upon households, nations and intersections offer potential avenues for future research, whilst also highlighting the importance of thinking critically about the methodological issues involved in understanding contemporary Islam

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Section: Current Trendsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Geographical contributions to understanding contemporary Islam: current trends and future directions

Hopkins

2009

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“…The dupatta is not a marker of an Islamic identity, because it is a popular form of dress across South Asia among Sikh, Hindu and Muslim women (Mohammad 1999). Wearing the hijab for Sajda (49 years old) and Abida (38 years old) came as a consequence of having completed the hajj.…”

Section: Wearers Of the Hijab: Respect Protection And Modestymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…My gender also facilitated my access to the women, as several participants made it clear that they would not have participated had I been a male researcher. However, the researcher's position as either the insider or outsider is not rigid, as Mohammad's (2001) research on Muslim women reveals: when she dressed in a westernised style, she was placed on the 'insider'/'outsider' border. While some women spoke to her only because of her western dress, for others this created a barrier.…”

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Meanings of modesty and thehijabamongst Muslim women in Glasgow, Scotland

Siraj

2011

Gender, Place & Culture

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Based on interviews with 30 Muslim women in Glasgow, Scotland, the study explores the meanings that the women attach to modesty and the hijab. Fifteen of the 30 participants wear the hijab. The article begins with an overview of the debate between traditional Muslim scholars and Muslim feminists about whether the hijab is an Islamic obligation. It illuminates the significance of space, as veiling practices are deeply enmeshed and embedded in the spatial practices shaped by the local Scottish context. The findings and analysis reveal differences as well as similarities between wearers and non-wearers of the hijab. While the former regard the hijab as an embodiment of modesty, virtue and respect, the latter consider it an unnecessary piece of clothing. However, despite their contrasting views on veiling, both groups of participants hold remarkably similar views on the importance of female modesty.

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“…Only a small body of work has addressed the experience of Muslim women in the labour market (Bowlby, Evans, and Mohammad 1998;Brah 1996;Dwyer and Shah 2009;Gökariksel 2009;Mohammad 1999). McDowell (2009) argues that differences are constructed through discourses that represent certain groups as naturally well suited for certain kinds of work and that these discourses are reproduced, resisted and reworked in the labour market.…”

Section: Theorising Embodied Islam In Paid Workmentioning

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Embodying Islam andlaïcité: young French Muslim women at work

Rootham

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

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In this article, I consider how the racialisation of Muslim identities in the French context affects the education and employment trajectories of six young French Muslim women with post-secondary education, living and working in Paris. I call attention to the pernicious effects of the intersection of three sets of governing discourses: laïcité, post-feminism and neoliberalism. These discourses obscure the way state-endorsed racialisation intersects with class and gender relations to erect barriers to Muslim women's employment opportunities. I examine the complex discursive and performative work Muslim women engage in, to inhabit, reproduce, reject or contest various interpretations of pious feminine Muslim and of French secular republican subjecthood. Work sites become important places where both pious and laïque subjectivities are often simultaneously produced and negotiated through performance and corporeality. In this way, the women's narratives challenge the discursive construction of the incompatibility of pious and secular subjectivities. Participants disrupted their racialisation as oppressed women who embody Muslimness by emphasising their individual and conscious choice to practise their religion. Yet, in doing so, and in the light of the challenges finding work for those wearing the headscarf, they were inadvertently rendered the agents of the discriminatory treatment that disadvantaged them in the labour market. The rational, free-choosing, neoliberal 'self' that they construct must then take individual responsibility for the negative consequences on their lives of broader collective racialising discourses.

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Marginalisation, Islamism and The Production of the 'Other's' 'Other'

Cited by 58 publications

References 6 publications

Geographical contributions to understanding contemporary Islam: current trends and future directions

Geographical contributions to understanding contemporary Islam: current trends and future directions

Meanings of modesty and thehijabamongst Muslim women in Glasgow, Scotland

Embodying Islam andlaïcité: young French Muslim women at work

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