Islam in the Hinterlands

Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada
Herausgeber: Zine, Jasmin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Muslim communities have become increasingly salient in the social, cultural, and political landscape in Canada largely due to theaftermath of 9/11 and the racial politics of the ongoing "war onterror" that have cast Muslims as the new "enemywithin." Featuring some of Canada's top Muslim Studiesscholars, Islam in the Hinterlands examines how gender, publicpolicy, media, and education shape the Muslim experience inCanada. A timely volume addressing some of the most hotlycontested issues in recent cultural history, it will be essentialreading for academics as well as general readers interested in Islamicstudies, multiculturalism, and social justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780774822725
• ISBN-10: 0774822724
• Artikelnr.: 54581553

Autorenporträt

Jasmin Zine is an associate professor of sociology and the Muslim studies option at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Muslim Cultural Politics in the Canadian Hinterlands /
Jasmin Zine
Part 1: Gender and Cultural Politics
1 Unsettling the Nation: Gender, Race, and Muslim Cultural Politics in
Canada / Jasmin Zine
2 The Great Canadian "Shar'ia" Debate / Itrath Syed
3 Toward a Framework for Investigating Muslim Women and Political
Engagement in Canada / Katherine Bullock
Part 2: Media and Representation
4 Colluding Hegemonies: Constructing the Muslim Other Post-9/11 / Yasmin
Jiwani
5 Marketing Islamic Reform: Dissidence and Dissonance in a Canadian Context
/ Meena Sharify-Funk
6 Toward Media Reconstruction of the Muslim Imaginary in Canada: The Case
of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Sitcom Little Mosque on the
Prairie / Alia Dakroury
Part 3: Education
7 From Mosques to Madrassas: Civic Engagement and the Pedagogy of Islamic
Schools / Nadeem Memon
8 Unveiled Sentiments: Gendered Islamophobia and Experiences of Veiling
Among Muslim Girls in a Canadian Islamic School / Jasmin Zine
Part 4: Security
9 The Security Certificate Exception: A Media Analysis of Human Rights and
Security Discourses in Canada's Globe and Mail and National Post /
Jacqueline Flatt
10 The Anti-terrorism Act and National Security: Safeguarding the Nation
against Uncivilized Muslims / Shaista Patel
Index