The veil and the search for the self: From identity politics to cultural expression

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cor Baerveldt
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
The Veil

scholarly journals Othering and Selfing: Reading Gender Hierarchies and Social Categories in Michel Houellebecq's Novel Soumission

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Wening Udasmoro
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
French Society ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Gender Hierarchies

In literature, questions of the self and the other are frequently presented. The identity politics that gained prominence after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 has occupied considerable space in this debate throughout the globe, including in France. One example of a novel dealing with the self and other is Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015). This article attempts to explore the processes of selfing and othering in this work. The politics of identity that seems to present Muslims and Islam as the other and French as the self is also extended to other identities and aspects involved in the novel. This article attempts to show, first, how the French author Houellebecq positions the self and other in Soumission; second, the type of self and other the novel focuses on; and third, how its selfing and othering processes reveal the gender hierarchy and social categorization of French society. It finds that the novel presents a hierarchy in its narrative through which characters are positioned based on their gender and sexual orientation, as well as their age and ethnic heritage.

Language, Citizenship, and the “Model Minority Myth”

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-241
Author(s):  
Zevi Gutfreund
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
The Self ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Language Minorities

Noting that the image of Japanese Americans as a “model minority” reflected a conservative vision of citizenship that excluded other racial and foreign language minorities from civic participation, this article traces the careers of California’s two most prominent Nisei of the postwar period, Judge John Aiso and Senator S. I. Hayakawa. Both of them established careers based on language arts. Although Aiso had experienced a multiculturalist background and Hayakawa an assimilationist education, both voiced right-wing opposition to bilingual education and racial identity politics by citing the self-achievements of Japanese Americans.

The Character in the Veil: Imagery of the Surface in the Gothic Novel

PMLA ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Material Support ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
The Veil

Traditional criticism of the Gothic novel, following a topography of the self derived from Freud, has linked sexuality with depth, repression with surface. Gothic convention, however, especially as Ann Radcliffe and M. G. Lewis use it, links surfaces with sexuality and contagion. The Gothic view of character is a social one, and it is concerned with writing and reference. The tracing and retracing of quasi-linguistic markings on surfaces establish personal identity, but only from outside, ex post facto, and through a draining tension between the code and its material support. The repetitious, fixating process of ocular confrontation by which characters recognize themselves and one another is like the process by which readers recognize thematic conventions.

scholarly journals A Critical Approach to Roma Design

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-159
Author(s):  
Ágota Szilágyi-Kispista
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Critical Design ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ongoing Development

In his 2016 book Notes on the Ontology of Design, Arturo Escobar asks whether it is possible to talk about the existence of a “critical design theory”. He states that if by “critical” we mean the application of a series of critical theories and approaches in the fields of design, and a certain connection to cultural studies, then we can talk about the ongoing development of a “critical design theory”. Based on an analysis of a set of objects by the social enterprise Meșteshukar ButiQ (Bucharest, Romania), I analyze the role of design in the construction and representation of Romani identity. Generally, design is interpreted as a representation of the self, however it has a significant role in constructing it too. According to Penny Sparke, “design is seen as being part of the dynamic process through which culture is actually constructed, not merely reflected” (2013: 4). Through an analysis of the products created and sold by Meșteshukar ButiQ and its collaborators, I examine the role of design not just in expressing but also in creating meanings, and thereby, I emphasize the design process’ importance in identity politics.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMASI KONSEP DIRI MUSLIMAH DALAM HIJABERS COMMUNITY

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
Moch Fakhruroji
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Women's Dress ◽  
The Way

<p><strong><em>Abstract: </em></strong><em>Although there are speculation about the phenomenon of the emerging of the veil or hijab in various styles are none other than a phenomenon of commercialized or commodified religion, but this article assumes this phenomenon in another perspective. This paper viewed positively that many newer hijab models not only provided a number of alternative style of Muslim women’s dress, but also has changed the way how people view the hijab in a wider scale has transformed the self-concept as modern Muslim women. As a community that aims to raise the image and socially promoting hijab, Hijabers Community Bandung has contributed in transforming the self-concept of Muslim women. Hijab which was originally seen as something that prevents them from looking attractive has undergone significant changes. By wearing particular hijab model, they remain fashionable without having to leave liability. Likewise, hijab has psychically transformed them into more polite person and experience the spiritual growth. Meanwhile socially, hijab has been positively transforming the quality of their social interactions. </em></p><p dir="RTL"><strong>الملخص:</strong> إذا كان هناك من الإختلاف حول ظاهرة العديد من نموذج الناشئة من النقاب أو الحجاب هذه الأيام ليست سوى تسويق أو تسليع في الدين، ولكن هذه المادة نرى  في هذه الظاهرة بنظر إيجابية في هذه الكتابة أن عدد من النماذج الجديدة الحجاب ليس فقط وقد أعطى عدد من بدائل أسلوب المسلمين في اللباس، ولكن أيضا قد تغير طريقة وجهات نظر المجتمع عن الحجاب على نطاق أوسع حول مفهوم أنفسهم بأنها مسلمة حديثة. كما  انه مجتمع واحد الذي تهدف لرفع الصور وتشجيع الحجاب اجتماعيا، ساهمت المتحجبات من باندونغ في تحويل مفهوم شخصيات المسلمات . واعتبر الحجاب الذى كان شيء يمنعهم من النظر الجاذبية شهدت تغيرات كبيرة. بإرتداء الحجاب بشكل محدد، تبقى المألوف دون الحاجة إلى ترك الوجبات. وكذالك، نفسيا، كان الحجاب تحول إلى النمو الروحي أكثر تهذيبا والخبرة الشخصية. وفي الوقت نفسه اجتماعيا، كان الحجاب تحول إيجابا على نوعية التفاعلات الاجتماعية.</p><p><strong>Abstrak: </strong>Meskipun beberapa pihak berspekulasi bahwa fenomena maraknya model jilbab atau hijab belakangan ini tidak lain merupakan fenomena komersialisasi atau komodifikasi agama, namun tulisan ini melihat fenomena ini dalam perspektif yang lain. Dengan menggunakan studi kasus, tulisan ini melihat secara positif bahwa model-model baru hijab tidak hanya telah memberikan sejumlah alternatif gaya berbusana muslimah, tetapi juga telah mengubah cara pandang masyarakat tentang jilbab yang dalam skala lebih luas telah mentransformasi konsep diri mereka sebagai muslimah modern. Sebagai salah satu komunitas yang bertujuan untuk mengangkat citra hijab secara sosial, Hijabers Community Bandung memiliki andil dalam mentransformasi konsep diri seorang muslimah. Hijab yang pada awalnya dipandang sebagai sesuatu yang menghalangi mereka untuk berpenampilan menarik telah mengalami perubahan signifikan. Dengan mengenakan hijab model tertentu, justru mereka tetap modis tanpa harus meninggalkan kewajiban. Demikian juga secara psikis, hijab telah mentransformasi mereka menjadi pribadi yang lebih santun dan mengalami peningkatan kualitas spiritual. Sementara itu secara sosial, hijab telah mentransformasi secara positif kualitas pergaulan sosial mereka.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Hijab, Konsep diri, Transformasi, Hijabers Community Bandung.<strong><em></em></strong></p>

Brexit, Erewhon, and Utopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Porscha Fermanis
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
British Identity ◽  
Postindustrial Society ◽  
History Of

Viewing Brexit as part of a longer history of Anglo-Saxon racial and cultural exceptionalism, this article reflects on what Samuel Butler’s satirical novel Erewhon, or Over the Range (1872) can tell us about the utopian impulses informing Brexit’s neoimperialist ideology and hence about British identity politics today. Set in an inward-looking, socially homogeneous, and postindustrial society somewhere in the colonial southern hemisphere, Erewhon provides an anachronistic simulacrum of both an isolationist “Little England” and an imperial “Global Britain,” critiquing the idea of the self-sufficient, ethnonationalist “island nation” by demonstrating the extent to which it relies on the racial logic of White utopianism, as well as on a disavowal of the non-British labor that supports and sustains it.

Narcissism and the ‘politics of recognition’: concepts of the late-modern self

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Hendrick
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Self And Identity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Parent Child

The chapter offers an overview of what it argues is the contemporary obsession with the Self - not only to the detriment of others, but also to that of the human potential for a better nature. It argues, following Hobsbawm, that the problems of values and judgment have been reduced the 'single denominator of the unrestricted freedom of the individual'. Consequently, the decline of social democracy has witnessed the failure of the socialist Left to resist the dissipation of significant Enlightenment values. The chapter is in two parts, the first of which provides brief discussions of the 'postsocialist' condition and the politics of recognition, the self and identity politics, and individualisation as 'a fate not a choice'. In the second part, several critiques of the therapeutic culture are briefly discussed, particularly with reference to what have been termed 'pure relationships' and the 'emotive will' which, it is argued, are mistakenly used to protect the self against the 'bleak coldness' of contemporary life. The chapter concludes by arguing for the jettisoning of contractual parent-child relations and renewal of the idea of parental self-sacrifice as a means of helping children to grow up.

The Enemy with a Thousand Faces: The Tradition of the Other in Western Political Thought and History. By Vilho Harle. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 232p. $59.95.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-183
Author(s):  
David Boucher
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Good And Evil

This book is part of a much larger collaborative project devoted to “Otherness, Identity, and Politics.” It explores an aspect of identity theory, about which the author makes two uncontentious claims: first, that identity is socially and politically constituted and, second, that identity politics predate 1989. By delimiting a theme in Western political thought and history that constructs the “I” and the “thou” in terms of good and evil, the book identifies and delimits a tendency to portray the Other as an enemy, evil incarnate, and dehumanized by a combination of religious and political ideas. The tradition of understanding the Self and the Other as the vehicles of good and evil is reproduced in thought, speech, and action and constitutes a continuous tradition from ancient Iranian Zoroastrianism, through Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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