The Terrorist, the Enlightened Man and the Patriarch
This article examines the experiences of Muslim Canadian women who find themselves in a position in which they are confronted with and haunted by a series of discursive figures. More precisely, we consider how these hegemonic figures affect our female Muslim Canadian participants and how these figur...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::6580c1f60e5b32f612c9a10b0b27d2e1 2023-05-15T17:22:59+02:00 The Terrorist, the Enlightened Man and the Patriarch Jennifer A. Selby Amélie Barras Lori G. Beaman 2018-05-01 http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2018-v42-n1-as03619/1045128ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2018-v42-n1-as03619/1045128ar.pdf https://doi.org/10.7202/1045128ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2018-v42-n1-as03619/1045128ar/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2804644518 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1045128ar undefined unknown Consortium Erudit http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2018-v42-n1-as03619/1045128ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2018-v42-n1-as03619/1045128ar.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1045128ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2018-v42-n1-as03619/1045128ar/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2804644518 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1045128ar undefined 1045128ar 10.7202/1045128ar 2804644518 oai:erudit.org:1045128ar 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|issn___print::c7decda53910f8d59819874d5f970ad0 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a 10|opendoar____::16e6a3326dd7d868cbc926602a61e4d0 Sciences Humaines et Sociales Social Sciences and Humanities Selby Barras Beaman musulmanes canadiennes les figures le Terroriste le Patriarche l’Homme éclairé islamophobie Muslim Canadians Figures the Terrorist the Enlightened Man the Patriarch the Pacifist the Good Citizen Islamophobia musulmanas canadienses las figuras el Terrorista el Patriarca el Hombre ilustrado islamofobia socio relig Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2018 fttriple https://doi.org/10.7202/1045128ar 2023-01-22T17:17:04Z This article examines the experiences of Muslim Canadian women who find themselves in a position in which they are confronted with and haunted by a series of discursive figures. More precisely, we consider how these hegemonic figures affect our female Muslim Canadian participants and how these figures delimit, to a certain extent, their discourses and actions. Feminine figures also exist and circulate in significant ways, but we focus here on three masculine archetypes, which were recurrent in our data that we have named : the Terrorist, the Enlightened Man, and the Patriarch. While masculine figures, they appeared most often in the narratives of the daily lives of our female participants. Specifically, we consider how our female participants engaged with these figures : in certain cases, they (re)produced or (re)activated them, in others they (re)appropriated them, and in others still, they ignored and silenced them. Their hegemony meant that our participants were inevitably impelled to construct, reconstruct and deconstruct these ever-present figures. Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted with self-defined Muslims in Montreal, Quebec and St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, this article makes two arguments in relation to these figures. In the first place, with reference to, and in contrast with, previous theoretical interventions on figures, we trace the relationships between them and show how they are not mutually exclusive rather, they activate one another. In the second place, we point to the complexities laden in the positions in which our female participants find themselves. In sum, even if we focus on masculine figures, more generally we engage with them to think more broadly about the fields of power in which Muslim Canadians are forced to engage. Les personnes de confession musulmane en général et les femmes musulmanes en particulier – plus encore celles d’entre elles installées en Occident –, se trouvent face à une situation délicate : elles sont quotidiennement confrontées à des figures ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Unknown Newfoundland Selby ENVELOPE(156.383,156.383,-80.200,-80.200) Anthropologie et Sociétés 42 1 155 182 |
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This article examines the experiences of Muslim Canadian women who find themselves in a position in which they are confronted with and haunted by a series of discursive figures. More precisely, we consider how these hegemonic figures affect our female Muslim Canadian participants and how these figures delimit, to a certain extent, their discourses and actions. Feminine figures also exist and circulate in significant ways, but we focus here on three masculine archetypes, which were recurrent in our data that we have named : the Terrorist, the Enlightened Man, and the Patriarch. While masculine figures, they appeared most often in the narratives of the daily lives of our female participants. Specifically, we consider how our female participants engaged with these figures : in certain cases, they (re)produced or (re)activated them, in others they (re)appropriated them, and in others still, they ignored and silenced them. Their hegemony meant that our participants were inevitably impelled to construct, reconstruct and deconstruct these ever-present figures. Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted with self-defined Muslims in Montreal, Quebec and St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, this article makes two arguments in relation to these figures. In the first place, with reference to, and in contrast with, previous theoretical interventions on figures, we trace the relationships between them and show how they are not mutually exclusive rather, they activate one another. In the second place, we point to the complexities laden in the positions in which our female participants find themselves. In sum, even if we focus on masculine figures, more generally we engage with them to think more broadly about the fields of power in which Muslim Canadians are forced to engage. Les personnes de confession musulmane en général et les femmes musulmanes en particulier – plus encore celles d’entre elles installées en Occident –, se trouvent face à une situation délicate : elles sont quotidiennement confrontées à des figures ... |
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