Muslim bloggers in Germany: an emerging counterpublic

Eckert, Stine; Chadha, Kalyani

doi:10.1177/0163443713501930

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“…A counterpublic in this instance may be formed by responding to: a) wildlife conservation authorities and external agendas that offer no room for alternative subjectivities and ecosocial imaginaries; b) government wildlife agencies that do not exhibit reasonable nor agreeable decision making; and c) illegitimate external policies and ideals (Eckert and Chadha 2013). What is notable about this potential counterpublic is that its contemporary narrative encompasses a politically powerful discourse that devalues invasive lives (coyotes) in rural areas through ethical, as well as biocentric, justifications (Carruthers et al 2011).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Sociopolitical Perspective on the Illegal Take of Wildlife in the Southeastern, USA

Serenari¹,

Peterson²

2016

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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Illegal take of wildlife is a complex and growing phenomenon, influenced by various factors. Scholars have paid limited attention to structural influences, however. We examine the structural processes that influence illegal take behavior in rural areas of the southeastern USA. Engaging historical and contemporary qualitative data from the region, we first identify that struggles between a rural hunting sub-culture and outsiders over the meaning and governance of humanwildlife interactions in rural areas emerged from several sociopolitical shifts. We then associate illegal take behavior performed by the rural hunting sub-culture with a radicalization framework consisting of injustice, vulnerability, superiority, and distrust. Regulators should not be surprised by the occurrence of illegal take behavior because sociopolitical factors contributed to delegitimization of wildlife law among the sub-culture. Engaging sub-culture gatekeepers in ways that limit exclusionary wildlife governance and imposition of external values may moderate negative outcomes caused by major sociopolitical shifts.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Sociopolitical Perspective on the Illegal Take of Wildlife in the Southeastern, USA

Serenari¹,

Peterson²

2016

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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“…Additionally, analysis of these two newspapers has shown what other analyses of immigrant media have suggested: that co‐called counterpublics (Eckert and Chadha ) do emerge among immigrant communities, and often seek not only to ‘contest mainstream representations, offer oppositional counter‐discourses and engage with the public sphere’ (927), but can challenge even an ‘ethno‐exclusivist’ regime that is designed to resist their claims. By analysing Turkish‐language immigrant newspapers of the early 1980s, we have demonstrated what Koc's work also suggested: that ‘the immigrant organizations’ media [can] provide us a better understanding of migrant claims making (2007: 28) than does an exclusive focus on the media produced for and by the mainstream.…”

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Extranational spaces and the disruption of national boundaries: Turkish immigrant media and claims against the state in 1980s West Germany

Foerster

Miller

2017

Nations and Nationalism

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After the 1980 coup that shook Turkey and almost twenty years after the bilateral ‘guest worker’ treaty shifted Germany's demographic make‐up, West German policy makers proposed increasingly restrictive regulations on the ‘guest workers’ who had heavily contributed to West Germany's economy. In this crucial historical moment, Turkish‐language newspapers, published in West Germany, created a politically motivated extranational public sphere in which they launched claims against both the West German and Turkish states. These claims shaped immigration and integration policy between the two countries, fostered diasporic activism and cross‐national religious and political organisations and gave rise to a variety of unexpected organisational outcomes that continue to impact both Germany and the Turkish Republic.

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“…Eckert and Chadha (2013) argued that Muslims in Germany, who have little say in national conversations, use blogs as a space for discourse. Leung and Lee (2014) approached the issue from a different perspective.…”

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The Content of Our #Characters

Graham

Smith

2016

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Much media attention has been placed on “Black Twitter,” a collective composed primarily of African Americans who have managed to effect change through the microblogging platform Twitter. Organized around the hashtag #BlackTwitter, this collection of users has been credited with injecting uniquely black concerns and perspectives into the national discourse. However, Black Twitter as an entity has not been theoretically contextualized and grounded in empirical research. In this research, the authors situate Black Twitter within the public sphere–counterpublic literature and ask the question: can Black Twitter be understood as a counterpublic? The authors compare Black Twitter, as indicated by the #BlackTwitter hashtag, with hashtags indicating the public sphere—#TCOT (Top Conservatives on Twitter) for conservatives and #UniteBlue for progressives—and with a hashtag indicating another potential counterpublic—#BCOT (Black Conservatives on Twitter). Using a corpus of 16,000 tweets collected during a 10-day period, comparisons were made in interaction patterns (tweets, favorites, and replies) and thematic content. The findings suggest that compared with other hashtags and the publics they represent, #BlackTwitter possesses more of the characteristics of a counterpublic.

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Muslim bloggers in Germany: an emerging counterpublic

Cited by 41 publications

References 19 publications

A Sociopolitical Perspective on the Illegal Take of Wildlife in the Southeastern, USA

A Sociopolitical Perspective on the Illegal Take of Wildlife in the Southeastern, USA

Extranational spaces and the disruption of national boundaries: Turkish immigrant media and claims against the state in 1980s West Germany

The Content of Our #Characters

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