the making of Muslim dissent: hybridized discourses, lay preachers, and radical rhetoric among British Pakistanis

Werbner, Pnina

doi:10.1525/ae.1996.23.1.02a00060

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“…Third, this contestation involved much more than a clash between different pre-given traditions within Islam. We need to guard against what Werbner (1996) calls a 'culturalist' approach which highlights traditions of 'belief' without addressing emergent ideologies in Britain. Contemporary Muslim debates have often been characterized by discussions as to what constitutes the 'merely cultural' (i.e.…”

Section: Culture and Identity: The Construction Of Muslim Identitymentioning

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Identity construction and British Muslims' political activity: Beyond rational actor theory

Hopkins¹,

Kahani-Hopkins²

2004

British J Social Psychol

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Political activity is often addressed in terms of rational actor theory (RAT). We review RAT's psychological assumptions and highlight the neglect of collective identity. In turn, we view the perception of 'interest' as contingent upon constructions of identity and explore how different characterizations of collective identity are organized strategically so as to shape people's understandings of their interests and how they should act to realize them. Using examples taken from a study of British Muslims' political activity we emphasize the contested and strategic dimension to identity construction and analyse how activists addressing the same constituency construe Muslim identity in different ways so as to promote different conceptions of collective interest. Specifically, we explore the contested invocations of Prophetic example in the definition of Muslim identity. The broader thrust behind this work is a critique of the sharp dichotomization of Muslim and non-Muslim political activity. We maintain that essentially similar processes of identity construction underlie all attempts to organize collective sentiment and political action (including that comprising so-called 'conventional' electoralist politics in the West), and that conceiving of identity as a site of political struggle underscores the inadequacy of Orientalist characterizations of Muslim identity in terms of a singular, transhistorical essence.

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Section: Culture and Identity: The Construction Of Muslim Identitymentioning

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Identity construction and British Muslims' political activity: Beyond rational actor theory

Hopkins¹,

Kahani-Hopkins²

2004

British J Social Psychol

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“…This returns our attention to issues of gender and generation as well as to the 'micro-politics' of resource allocation. It also brings a different perspective to questions of power between places, for, while the global political economy is the setting for transnationalism and its analysis must therefore foreground discussion, we need to understand how the global politics of place articulate with questions of identity, status and culturally specific forms of hierarchy and inequality, all of which require research at the local level.One way to address such issues is to examine ritual, not at the level of transnational or global religious movements, as discussed for example by Werbner (1996) and in the collection edited by Metcalf (1996), but at that of the ceremonies that take place within and between households. As we shall see, the analysis of transnational household rituals tells us a great deal about how places are imagined and acted upon, as well as about the power relations between them.…”

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“…One way to address such issues is to examine ritual, not at the level of transnational or global religious movements, as discussed for example by Werbner (1996) and in the collection edited by Metcalf (1996), but at that of the ceremonies that take place within and between households. As we shall see, the analysis of transnational household rituals tells us a great deal about how places are imagined and acted upon, as well as about the power relations between them.…”

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Death of a migrant: transnational death rituals and gender among British Sylhetis

Gardner

2002

Global Networks

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In this article I discuss transnational burial rituals carried out in London and Sylhet. While collective identity and reaffirming social ties are important issues in discussing the burial of migrants in Sylhet, the main focus of the article is on gender. The analysis of what happens when Londonis die reveals a great deal about the differential effects of living between two places on men and women. While transnationalism may in some contexts be understood as potentially subversive, for the majority of Sylhetis in Britain movement between places is highly constrained by poverty and British immigration controls, as well as by particular gender and household relations. These in turn impact on men and women's experiences of bereavement, as well as on their access to and relationship with the British state.Transnationalism has been defined as 'the processes by which immigrants forge and sustain multi-stranded social relations that link together their societies of origin and settlement ' (Basch et al. 1994: 7). Yet, while this aptly sums up its most salient features, most research into the phenomenon, at least so far, has focused on political or entrepreneurial matters, or on the hegemony of the nation state, activities that largely take place in the public arena. To understand the meanings and implications of transnationalism for ordinary people, however, we need also to consider activities and relationships within households and families. This returns our attention to issues of gender and generation as well as to the 'micro-politics' of resource allocation. It also brings a different perspective to questions of power between places, for, while the global political economy is the setting for transnationalism and its analysis must therefore foreground discussion, we need to understand how the global politics of place articulate with questions of identity, status and culturally specific forms of hierarchy and inequality, all of which require research at the local level.One way to address such issues is to examine ritual, not at the level of transnational or global religious movements, as discussed for example by Werbner (1996) and in the collection edited by Metcalf (1996), but at that of the ceremonies that take place within and between households. As we shall see, the analysis of transnational household rituals tells us a great deal about how places are imagined and acted upon, as well as about the power relations between them. Household rituals, which are often carried out by women, also bring to our attention the much-neglected issue of gender relations, and how these are played out and affected by transnationalism. An associated question, which I do not discuss directly here, concerns relations between generations (see Gardner 2002).

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“…Werbner (1996), Qureshi (2010) and Rozario (2011) all reflect on the wedding as a site of performances of identity and of conflict between rival ideologies of modernity and morality. One, expressed at the wedding, draws on both western modernity and South Asian transnational style.…”

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Making sense of the smell of Bangladesh

Zeitlyn

2013

Childhood

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This article draws links between the sense of smell, aesthetic choices concerning clothes, ideas about modernity and the aspirations of young British Bangladeshis. In doing so it highlights the preconscious and conscious factors that inform the identities that British Bangladeshis express. The article argues that despite its importance for our sense of belonging, the sense of smell has been neglected in accounts of identity. This discussion leads to a critique of Bourdieu's notion of habitus and illustrates the ways in which the conscious elements of habitus draw upon the unconscious. Dispositions towards the smell of Bangladesh feed into ways in which British Bangladeshis express their identities through aesthetic choices and in turn reveal preferences for different discourses of modernity.

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the making of Muslim dissent: hybridized discourses, lay preachers, and radical rhetoric among British Pakistanis

Cited by 19 publications

References 35 publications

Identity construction and British Muslims' political activity: Beyond rational actor theory

Identity construction and British Muslims' political activity: Beyond rational actor theory

Death of a migrant: transnational death rituals and gender among British Sylhetis

Making sense of the smell of Bangladesh

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