The use of cultural defence has been much discussed in the american context and has figured as one of the areas of. This relationship is negotiated between the cultures in which both have a stake creating or restricting a hyphenated or hybrid identity fine. A mustread for anyone interested in muslim cultures, this volume not only explores muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a muslim identity in selected muslimmajority countries at this pivotal historical moment. Such young women might be defined as members of the new diasporas created by postcolonial migrations hall, 1992a. In the muslim world, economic advancement depends upon womens empowerment.
Gender politics exist inevitably in all islamist movements that expect women to assume the burden of a largely maledefined tradition. Literary theory and criticism english literature, literary theory, linguistics, film theory, media theory, ugc net jrf exam preparation, novel analysis, research papers nasrullah mambrol. Maakt het mogelijk om pdfbestanden samen te voegen met een simpele drag anddrop interface. Gender role identity among adolescent muslim girls living. Migration changes the relation between territory and cultural. Culture, value and the housing market by pnina werbner 227 11. Muslim diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a groups attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country.
Reflecting the continuing interest in diaspora and transnationalism, this collection of critical essays is located at the intersection of gender and diaspora studies, exploring multiple ways in. Submitted by francis acquah to the university of exeter as a thesis for the degree of doctor of philosophy in theology in december 2011. The graphs reveal that gender plays an important role in the relationship between overall cultural identity and age. African diaspora studies has historically attempted to theorize both material links of kinship, community, and culture that people maintain i. Kurdish women in feminist transnational struggles shahrzad mojab discourses of islamsecularism and identity building processes among turkish university youth aylin akpinar. The events of september 11th, 2001 particularly illustrated the ways in which identities can be transformed across time and space by both global and local events of a social, cultural, political and economic nature.
In this sociological study, caitlin killian examines how muslim women construct and manage their identities in the midst of a foreign culturewhat they hold on to from their countries of. The achieved identity of the indian male is under attack today, in a hypercompetitive country. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Transnational discourses on class, gender, and cultural identity will be of special relevance to those working on couto, saramago, lispector, and coetzee, as well as to those with an interest in issues of language, postcolonialism, identity, gender studies, and the interplay between the aesthetics of literature and expressions of social and. Scholarship on various aspects of muslim diasporas is increasing, generating conferences, monographs, papers, and edited volumes. Deze gratis online tool maakt het mogelijk om meerdere pdf bestanden of afbeeldingen te combineren in een pdf document. N2 in recent years, geographies of identities, including those of ethnicity, religion, race and gender, have formed an increasing focus of contemporary human geography. Gender, culture and identity stands out as an interesting and useful contribution to the field. In addition, the significance of gender and sexuality in identity formation is sometimes underplayed. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading muslim diaspora. The graphs show the participants birth year and sex.
Over threequarters of the sample characterized themselves as middleeastern or arab. A case study of nkusukumekumfienyan area of the central region. Islam and consecrated tortures ezzat mousallahnejad 4. Amena amer, caroline howarth, ragini sen diasporic. Achieved identity derived from individual endeavours education, work and so on, and ascribed identity that is derived from intrinsic characteristics religion, ethnicity, gender etc. Bodies and cultures are dispersed across the globe everyday. Tweet for some, sexual orientation andor gender identity is a controversial topic.
Culture is, what you believe, what you value, what you live for. In recent years, geographies of identities, including those of ethnicity, religion, race and gender, have formed an increasing focus of contemporary human geography. The author explores the way in which both public and private spaces of the diaspora are important arenas in the construction and reconstruction of gendered identities. Keywords age, diaspora, ethnicity, gender, girls studies, identity, visual ethnography. Kurdish women in feminist transnational struggles shahrzad mojab 10. A qualitative investigation of religion, gender role. Diaspora is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics and economics of both the traditional diasporas armenian, greek, and jewish and those transnational dispersions which in the past three decades have chosen to identify themselves as diasporas. The sri lankan tamils of the diaspora are a model of a transnational identity. Zimbabwean migrants in britain abstract this article analyses the performative and lived realities of the zimbabwean diaspora in britain. Diaspora generation experience racism identity homeland belonging kurdish. From the theoretical point of view, tamil identity challenges our mental habits and intercultural theory. Exilic reading of three religious texts reza baraheni part ii. Gul ozyegin eds gender and sexuality in muslim cultures.
These encompass groups ranging from the africanamerican to the ukrainiancanadian. Gender role identity is acquired through exposure to societal expectations and beliefs about behaviors and characteristics appropriate for males and females. This free online tool allows to combine multiple pdf or image files into a single pdf document. The term gender roles refers to a set of norms that are considered to be appropriate for a specific sex within a specific culture. The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the diaspora and demonstrate that identity is always constructed in relation to others. This study examined influences on gender identity among ninetysix muslim adolescent girls living in the u. This essay considers the construction of gender and sexual images in the arab world and how western responses to islam have affected the way islam is perceived and interpreted. In this course we discuss what gendering, diaspora and migration can imply as analytical not descriptive categories and how they are constructed interdependently by power relations. While this paper does not intend to answer all of the questions surrounding african women and their position in the broader socioeconomic system, it will explore african immigrant womens transnationalism, other notions of identity and their assessment of and experience with race relations. The impact of african traditional religious beliefs and. Transnational discourses on class, gender, and cultural. Taken within the context of ethnic, cultural andor religious backgrounds these controversies become even more complex.
Gender, culture and identity routledge islamic studies series. Migration and transcultural identities european science foundation. Media, sexuality, and diaspora identity 141 even more complex issue. It pitted different practitioners within nationalist terms.
Gender and sexuality in muslim cultures in searchworks catalog. Migration and diaspora are like gender not descriptive, objective categories, but analytical tools to name positions of power. Figure 3 and figure 4 reveal that men identify more strongly with american and arab culture. Conflicts in afghani stan in the twentieth century. Gender relations and womens status in the middle east 19 3. Gender boundaries and sexual categories in the arab world. Gender and national identity constructions in the crossborder merger context article pdf available in gender work and organization 123. In terms of globalization theory, sexuality is conceptualized as a locus of cultural hybridization. Project muse transnational discourses on class, gender.
An esf standing committee for the humanities forward look. Our pdf merger allows you to quickly combine multiple pdf files into one single pdf document, in just a few clicks. Gender, culture and identity stands out as an interesting and useful. Gender, though many might not agree, plays a major role during the experience of a diaspora. Transnational discourses on class, gender, and cultural identity book description. Across egypt, morocco, lebanon and the palestinian territories, 10,000 men and women were asked about gender equality in the middle east and north africa. Transnational marriage is widely understood here to be a part of muslim migrant life a practice that is in fact emblematic of muslim culture and its premodern qualities.
The impact of african traditional religious beliefs and cultural values on christian muslim relations in ghana from 1920 through the present. Transnational marriage and the bangladeshi muslim diaspora. Islam in diaspora and challenges to multiculturalism. Even in secular political movements in the muslim world notably those anticolonial national liberation movements where women were actively involved women have experiences since independence a general reversal of the gains made. Figure 2 shows that women identify more with lebanese culture than men. This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism focuses on the work of four writers. Religion, gender and identity construction amongst pakistanis in australia 201 by nadeem malik part three. It reflects a diverse points of views of foreign, lebanese immigrants, lebanese researchers and thinkers regarding the lebanese diaspora and communities in different regions around the world. The article below is a compilation of web and library research done by bassam alkantar.
Transforming rituals 223 finding ones place 225 by basir sultan kasmi 10. Gender roles in jewish and muslim cultures national. The psychological transition of adolescence, already charged in terms of gender and sexuality, is then imbricated with the conundrums of the other transitionthe diaspora identity that demands delicate negotiations of raceethnicity, nation, class, language, culture and history. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Maintaining national culture abroad countries of origin, culture and.
A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Discourses of islamsecularism and identity building processes among turkish university youth aylin akpinar part iii. A qualitative investigation of religion, gender role beliefs, and culture in the lives of a select group of muslim men by elham bagheri an abstract of a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the doctor of philosophy degree in psychological and quantitative foundations counseling psychology in the graduate college of. This paper posits that adolescence, as experienced by girls of immigrant diaspora groups, is complicated by issues of race, culture and nation that intersect with discourses of sex and gender. In this section, the spatial matrix for diasporic identity and media culture, which consists of. It is also the pattern of such collective behaviors and assumptions that are taught to new organizational members as a way of perceiving, and even thinking and feeling. Pdf gender and national identity constructions in the. Haideh moghissi muslim diaspora gender, culture and identity. Religion in migration, diasporas and transnationalism.
This paper focuses on the negotiation of identity among young british south asian muslim women 1 drawing on interviews and indepth group discussions conducted with young women in two schools in a suburban town northwest of london. Indeed, informed by larger currents of antimuslim sentiment, the issue. Gender, culture and identity routledge islamic studies series kindle edition by moghissi, haideh. It locates migrants within social fields that combine several national territories. Isbn 9781472414540 ul ozyegins edited volume, gender and sexuality in muslim cultures, is a powerfully illuminating source for exploring a. These accepted social and behavioral norms often vary by culturewhether that culture is defined by religion, ethnicity, family structure, or another construct. Culture includes the organization values, visions, norms, working language, systems, symbols, beliefs and habits. The term cultural identity is overused but poorly defined.
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