The Art of Resistance in Islam

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yafa Shanneik
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Islamic Movements ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Ritual Practices

Based on first-hand ethnographic insights into Shi'i religious groups in the Middle East and Europe , this book examines women's resistance to state as well as communal and gender power structures. It offers a new transnational approach to understanding gender agency within contemporary Islamic movements expressed through language, ritual practices, dramatic performances , posters and banners. By looking at the aesthetic performance of the political on the female body through Shi'i ritual practices – an aspect that has previously been ignored in studies on women's acts of resistance -, Yafa Shanneik shows how women play a central role in redefining sectarian and gender power relations both in the Middle East and in the European diaspora.

‘Mutations from Below’: The Land Raiders of Reef and An Sùileachan (2013) by Will Maclean and Marian Leven

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
Lindsay Blair
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
The People ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Way

The focus of this paper is the memorial structure, An Sùileachan, at Uig on the Island of Lewis which was designed by Will Maclean and Marian Leven and built by stonemasons Ian Smith and James Crawford in 2013. The memorial, dedicated to the Land Raiders of Reef, is the fourth in a series of memorial sculptures to commemorate the struggles of the people against landlord control in different communities on the Island of Lewis. The title for this paper ‘Mutations from Below’ is used by Michel Foucault in his radical re-interpretation of classification systems, The Order of Things. Much of Foucault's writing is concerned with power relations, the way that power is exercised over people's freedom. The democratic thrust of Foucault's writings is paralleled in the determination of the artists, Maclean and Leven, to give a voice to the unrepresented voices of the people of Reef at the time of the Land Raid in 1913 and more generally to the voices of the people in their opposition to their treatment at the hands of landowners and their factors during the Clearances. In successive stages of the essay, the insights of different cultural theorists – Martin Heidegger, Gianni Vattimo, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jacques Rancière – help to ground the argument in philosophical exegesis. Finally, the paper seeks to determine the nature and extent of the connection between the political and the aesthetic within the memorial sculptural form as exemplified at An Sùileachan.

Ethnic and Gender Hierarchies in the Crucible of War

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 710-722
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn Webster ◽  
Priscilla Torres ◽  
Chong Chen ◽  
Kyle Beardsley
Keyword(s):  
Civil Liberty ◽  
The Political ◽  
Reinforcing Effect ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Gender Hierarchy ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Intrastate War ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Recent scholarship shows war can catalyze reforms related to gender power imbalances, but what about reforms related to ethnic inequalities? While war can disrupt the political, social and economic institutions at the root of ethnic hierarchy—just as it can shake up the institutions at the root of gender hierarchy—war is also prone to have either a reinforcing effect or a pendulum effect. Our project uses data from the Varieties of Democracy project to examine specific manifestations of changes in gender and ethnic civil-liberty equality (1900–2015). Interstate war, but not intrastate war, tends to be followed by gains in ethnic civil-liberty equality, and intrastate war tends to be followed by long-term gains in gender civil-liberty equality. Wars with government losses are prone to lead to improvements in civil-liberty equality along both dimensions. In considering overlapping gender and ethnic hierarchies, we find that when wars open up space for gains in gender equality, they also facilitate gains in equality for excluded ethnic groups.

Feminist and Gender Research in Sport and Leisure Management: Understanding the Social–Cultural Nexus of Gender–Power Relations

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara Carmichael Aitchison
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
National Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Power ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
And Gender

This article aims toward developing a critical theory that can further advance feminist research in sport management. I seek to offer a critical analysis of gender relations in sport and leisure management by developing a theoretical critique of gender (in)equity that integrates both social theory and cultural analyses. The original empirical data was gathered in a national study ofGender Equity in Leisure Managementconducted by the author in 1998/99 and secondary data was drawn from comparative studies undertaken in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S. (Aitchison, Brackenridge, & Jordan, 1999; Henderson & Bialeschki, 1993, 1995; Mckay, 1996; Shinew & Arnold, 1998). The research cited demonstrates that women’s experience of sport and leisure management is shaped by both structural and cultural factors. My findings highlight the need for new epistemological perspectives as much as new methodological approaches and techniques. This new perspective acknowledges the complexities of gender–power relations in the workplace and recognizes the interconnectedness and mutually informing nature of structural and cultural power, thus opening the way for more sophisticated analyses and understandings of gender equity in sport and leisure management.

scholarly journals Self-determination and gender–power relations as predictors of condom use self-efficacy among South African women

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 205510291559867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feziwe Mpondo ◽  
Robert AC Ruiter ◽  
Bart van den Borne ◽  
Priscilla S Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Condom Use ◽  
South African ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
African Women ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
And Gender ◽  
South African Women

scholarly journals “How I became what I am”: an aesthetics of twist cinema in films from the 1960s and 1970s

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-313
Author(s):  
Karla Adriana Martins Bessa
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Bloody Sunday ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: The article analyzes the political and theoretical potentialof cinematographic language to express and rebuild the relationship between sexual and gender differences. As cultural products, the three films analyzed - A Casa Assassinada (1972), Sunday, bloody Sunday (1971) and Les Amities Particulières (1964) - allude to feminist issues of the time, as well as instigating a reading of gender beyond the narratives, by historicizing the visibility of the female body, heteronormativity, and the subversiveness of forbidden loves as represented through the films’ structure. The text argues, from a queer perspective, that the aesthetic nature of twist cinema, within the limits of each style and period, was precisely the boldness to run risks in its visual grammar, not making political concessions in challenging the moral canons of current society.

New Approaches to the Anthropology of Islamic Movements

2018 ◽  
pp. 499-511
Author(s):  
Sherine Hafez
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Islamic Movements ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Religious Subject ◽  
Muslim Majority

With the widening rift between secular and religious groups in Muslim majority countries, “Islamism” continues to be reified as a separate entity from “secularism,” thus uprooting it from its historical and sociopolitical context. This chapter critically examines these binarizing discourses to propose an interdisciplinary approach that situates Islamic movements within broader discussions of social power structures that frame the discursive contentious divide between the secular and the religious. Taking ethnographic data from an Islamic women’s reform movement in Egypt as a starting point, this chapter argues that the reification of the so-called “religious subject” as the opposite of the “secular other” in literature in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is distortive. Unquestioned notions of individual subjectivity can be misleading in analysis of Islamic movements and impact how we understand political and social transformations in post revolutionary Arab Muslim-majority societies.

Women in Power and Decision making Positions : Conditions and Restraints

1970 ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Azza Charara Baydoun
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Slow Progress

Women today are considered to be outside the political and administrative power structures and their participation in the decision-making process is non-existent. As far as their participation in the political life is concerned they are still on the margins. The existence of patriarchal society in Lebanon as well as the absence of governmental policies and procedures that aim at helping women and enhancing their political participation has made it very difficult for women to be accepted as leaders and to be granted votes in elections (UNIFEM, 2002).This above quote is taken from a report that was prepared to assess the progress made regarding the status of Lebanese women both on the social and governmental levels in light of the Beijing Platform for Action – the name given to the provisions of the Fourth Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. The above quote describes the slow progress achieved by Lebanese women in view of the ambitious goal that requires that the proportion of women occupying administrative or political positions in Lebanon should reach 30 percent of thetotal by the year 2005!

Design, power and colonisation: decolonial and anti-oppressive explorations on three approaches for Design for Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas B. TORRETTA ◽  
Lizette REITSMA
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Design For Sustainability ◽  
The People ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Design Power ◽  
Relational Issue

Our contemporary world is organized in a modern/colonial structure. As people, professions and practices engage in cross-country Design for Sustainability (DfS), projects have the potential of sustaining or changing modern/colonial power structures. In such project relations, good intentions in working for sustainability do not directly result in liberation from modern/colonial power structures. In this paper we introduce three approaches in DfS that deal with power relations. Using a Freirean (1970) decolonial perspective, we analyse these approaches to see how they can inform DfS towards being decolonial and anti-oppressive. We conclude that steering DfS to become decolonial or colonizing is a relational issue based on the interplay between the designers’ position in the modern/colonial structure, the design approach chosen, the place and the people involved in DfS. Hence, a continuous critical reflexive practice is needed in order to prevent DfS from becoming yet another colonial tool.

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