ISSN:
0037-7686
,
0037-7686
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (20 Seiten)
Titel der Quelle:
Social compass : international review of socio-religious studies
Publ. der Quelle:
London : Sage
Angaben zur Quelle:
68,2020,3, Seiten 410-429
DDC:
300
Keywords:
France
;
gender
;
Germany
;
headscarf
;
Muslims
;
postcolonialism
;
The Netherlands
;
Allemagne
;
foulard
;
France
;
genre
;
musulman·e·s
;
Pays-Bas
;
postcolonialisme
;
Sozialwissenschaften
;
Sammlungen allgemeiner Statistiken
;
Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste; Verbände
Abstract:
In this article, we analyze headscarf debates that unfolded in the first decade of the twenty-first century in France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Through a socio-historical overview looking at newspaper articles and policy and legal documents, we show how the headscarf has become a site for negotiating immigrant-related, postcolonial difference. We argue that certain feminist understanding of gender liberation and postcolonial difference in the headscarf debates reveal the continuity of control mechanisms from the colonial to the postcolonial era. We highlight the possibilities for decolonial thought and practice by centering the situatedness of headscarf. This allows us to show how Muslim citizens are active participants in producing contemporary Western European histories even as some of their practices face overt rejection.
Abstract:
Peer Reviewed
Note:
This article was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
DOI:
10.1177/0037768620974268
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/24577-2
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