Commerce, piety and politics: Indonesian young Muslim women’s groups as religious influencers

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 2140-2159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa R Beta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
Women’S Groups

The article discusses the indiscernibility of social-media-based young Muslim women’s groups’ (YMWGs) transformative roles in socio-political analysis, standing in contrast to the groups’ visibility in Indonesian young women’s everyday lives. How does the (in)visibility of the YMWGs reconfigure the (political) subjectivity of Muslim womanhood? How should we understand the influence of this form of ‘women’s movement’ in the re-invention of Muslim identity? This article proposes the notion of ‘social media religious influencer’ to understand the groups’ conflation of religious, political and commercial elements in their online and offline representations and their encouragement to their followers to do self-transformation. The article demonstrates how, although such creative conflation challenges prevailing ideas about young Muslim women, it requires the young women to remain and take part in the prevailing gender regime by maintaining female conformity.

scholarly journals Keeping cool, staying virtuous: Social media and the composite habitus of young Muslim women in Copenhagen

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (58) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Waltorp
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Hysteresis Effect ◽  
The Self ◽  
Housing Area ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
And Gender

This article builds on long-term anthropological fieldwork among young Muslim women in a social housing area in Copenhagen. It explores how morality, modesty, and gender- and generational relations become reconfigured in the ways in which young women use the Smartphone and social media to navigate their everyday lives. I focus on love and marriage, the imperatives of appearing cool among peers, and keeping the family’s honour intact through the display of virtuous behaviour. Building on Bourdieu’s writings on the split habitus, I introduce the term composite habitus, as it underscores the aspect of a habitus that is split between (sometimes contradictory) composite parts. The composite habitus of the young women is more than a hysteresis effect (where disposition and field are in mismatch and the habitus misfires), as the composite habitus also opens up to a range of possible strategies. I present examples of how intimate and secret uses of Smartphones have played out and show how social media have allowed for multiple versions of the self through managing public and secret relationships locally and across long distances.

The Europeanization of social movements in the Czech Republic: The EU and local women’s groups

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondřej Císař ◽  
Kateřina Vráblíková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Opportunity Structure ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Political Opportunity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Women’S Groups ◽  
Accession Process ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The goal of this paper is to analyse the impact the EU has had on Czech women’s groups since the1990s. Drawing on both Europeanization and social movement theories, the first section defines the theoretical framework of the paper. The second section is focused on the impact of changes in the funding of women’s groups which, since the end of the1990s, have relied more than before on European funding. The third section analyses the shift in the political context and the domestic political opportunity structure in the Czech Republic that has occurred in connection with the accession process. The fourth section analyzes transnational cooperation for which new opportunities have appeared with the EU’s eastward expansion. The paper concludes by summarizing its main findings.

scholarly journals Covid-19 dan Gerakan Sosial Perempuan

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Ujang Wardi ◽  
Elfia Elfia
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Women’S Groups ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Institutions ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Government ◽  
Mass Actions

This study explains how social movements are initiated by women's groups. The movement carried out penetrates various spaces in the social environment and even traditional institutions as groups that have authority. Through a descriptive approach and in-depth interview techniques, this study answers questions about how women's groups carry out social movements by constructing the issue of the non-transparent distribution of Covid-19 aid. Thus, the mobilizing structure, which is carried out systematically, attracts traditional institutions (ninik mamak) in the vortex of conflict. This study found that the sources of issues from social movements carried out by women's groups were (a) information from the deputy governor regarding the distribution of Covid-19 aid, (b) nepotism and collusion from the nagari government. Two framing issues (framing) are then packaged through social media to attract the power to carry out mass actions (demonstrations). This study concludes that the demonstration of women giving birth is a new policy related to the distribution of Covid-19 by the government.

scholarly journals Triple Talaq Bill in India: Muslim Women as Political Subjects or Victims?

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esita Sur
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Communal Violence ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
The Core ◽  
Women’S Groups ◽  
Women In India

The recent proposed Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2017 has raised the new issues, which were long due to Muslim women in India. It has not only criminalised the practice of instant tin talaq (divorce), but also signifies the government’s intervention in defining the notion of gender justice to Muslim women. Importantly, this development not only highlights an emerging Muslim women’s activism in India but also an articulation of gender justice from within the community. However, an array of criticisms is also sprouting up against the Bill from different corners of the community, including Muslim women’s groups. The article is an attempt to address the multiple facets of the Bill; it also argues that the talaq issue alone cannot constitute the core of gender justice rather the interplay of various factors like Hindutva, communal violence and the marginal location of the Muslim community needs to taken into account to understand Muslim women’s question in India.

Muslim Liberative Approaches and Legal Dilemmas Towards Gender Justice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zayn Kassam
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Women’S Groups ◽  
Legal Regimes ◽  
Gender Inequities

For many Muslim women, their countries’ legal regimes are perceived as continuing to place them at a disadvantage due to their sex, primarily due to gendered assumptions based on the Qur’ān and the patriarchal social frameworks under which legal regimes were instituted and applied. The development of a discourse of gender justice rooted in authoritative Islamic texts finds its greatest challenge in translating into praxis, for which the legal sphere, in which patriarchal authority in the name is Islam is seemingly unshakably entrenched, is one of the arenas in which the challenge has to be met. This chapter examines how liberatory interpretations of the Qur’an and Islamic law work in conjunction with activism undertaken by Muslim women’s groups to redress gender inequities, drawing upon examples from North Africa, primarily Egypt and Morocco.

scholarly journals Applicability of Herbert Blumer's Symbolic Interactionism to Political Analysis of Internet Communications

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Sergey Fedorchenko ◽  
Larisa Fedorchenko ◽  
E. Karlyavina
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Transaction Process ◽  
Analytical Tools

The aim of the article is to study the model of symbolic interactionism by the American sociologist Herbert Blumer and to identify the analytical elements that are most applicable to the political analysis of internet communications. The authors used the hermeneutic approach, including the identification of central premises in Blumer's model as well as an additional interpretation of such premises. Quantitative content analysis was used as an auxiliary methodological optics. The analysis demonstrated that the analytical tools of symbolic interactionism from the Chicago School (definitive and sensitizing concepts, exploration and inspection, etc.) can be effectively tailored and used for current research of internet communications in applied political science. The authors conclude that identifying the transaction process is the most important result of applying Blumer’s symbolic interactionism model to a study of social media communities by a political scientist. It is demonstrated that the conditions of social media require investigating the mechanism of behavior adaptation by each individual to the behavior of others. This gives an insight into the mechanism by which social life and the political regime are streamlined and stabilized.

Adele Azar’s Notebook

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salim Tamari
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Women’S Groups

This chapter demonstrates how at the turn of the century, the use of family endowments and benevolent associations created the earliest forms of independent women's groups. It studies the notebook of Adele Azar in light of Halide Edip's educational work in Syria and Mount Lebanon during the war. The main focus of these projects, in Azar's case, was the teaching of destitute girls and their preparation for public employment. Azar's notebook shows that charity and pious foundations not only were not opposed to the evolution of a more substantial independent women's movement, but also were often the very foundation from which these movements emerged.

scholarly journals Reading Women Participations on Populism Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-273
Author(s):  
Sofa Marwah
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Wide Society ◽  
Women’S Groups ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Preliminary Study

This paper aims to elaborate on women participation on politic populist development and expansion of support by the strength of women's groups as representatives of civil society. This study uses literature study methods to discover various data related to women's figures and women's group dedication in the context of civil society, sourced from journal and preliminary study results. The results of the study indicate that women participate in the practice of populism associated with men in cultivating the issues of populism and are received by the general public. Even women's contribution to society tends to be closer to welfare issues that are echoed in populist politics. When the populism politics need to expand in the context of the wider society, women are also present and have been there for a long time dedicating their lives on social welfare issues. The implication, it is necessary to see women contributions are as important as men in the practice of populist politics, not only at the level of the political elite but also in the life of the wide society. Women's groups are able to fill spaces that are not filled by the state, i.e. socio-economic spaces, wherever women are.

scholarly journals STRATEGI KOMUNIKASI HIJABERS SEMARANG DALAM MENSYIARKAN HIJAB PADA MUSLIMAH MUDA DI SEMARANG

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Ummul Baroroh ◽  
Nur Cahyo Hendro W ◽  
Nur Afifah Ghoida
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Additional Value

<p><em>Communication  strategy Hijabers  Semarang  not  yet  fully  use  communication strategy, because it does not have a foundation that is structured in terms of media and audience selection and in the evaluation process. However, the process has changed the interest of young Muslim women to use hijab. In formulating a communication strategy, In the preparation of the message, Hijabers Semarang raised the theme that is currently actual among young muslimah, so this makes additional value for Hijabers Semarang among young women themselves. The method used by Hijabers Semarang in delivering hijab syiar to young Muslim women is by Redundancy method, by spreading the broadcast  repeatedly to be easily  remembered by  young  muslimah. Canalizing, by plunging directly into the field involving Semarang Hijabers members and committees, to be able to determine and identify similarities and differences so that Hijabers Semarang is easier to make adjustments with audiences. Used strategy persuasive, educative and informative. Hijabers Semarang take advantage of various social media such as facebook, twitter, instagram, and web blog.</em></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>Strategi komunikasi Hijabers Semarang belum seutuhnya menggunakan strategi komunikasi, karena tidak mempunyai landasan yang terstruktur dalam hal pemilihan media dan khalayak serta dalam proses evaluasi. Akan tetapi, proses yang terjadi telah berhasil mengubah minat muslimah muda untuk menggunakan hijab. Dalam menyusun strategi komunikasi, Hijabers Semarang mengenal khalayak dengan cara survei atau mendatangi langsung sasaran dan mengomunikasikan dengan pihak sasaran. Pada penyusunan pesan, Metode yang digunakan Hijabers Semarang dalam menyampaikan syiar hijab  pada  muslimah  muda  adalah  dengan  metode  <em>Redundancy, </em>dengan  menyebarkan <em>broadcast  </em>berulang-ulang  kali  agar  mudah  diingat  oleh  muslimah  muda<em>.  Canalizing, </em>dengan terjun langsung ke lapangan yang melibatkan anggota dan komite Hijabers Semarang, untuk dapat menentukan dan mengidentifikasi persamaan dan perbedaan sehingga Hijabers Semarang lebih mudah melakukan penyesuaian dengan khalayak. <em>Persuasif</em>, pada kegiatan <em>hijab and beauty class </em>dan Gerakan Seribu Kerudung, khalayak dipengaruhi dengan jalan membujuk dan digugah baik pikiran maupun perasaan. Strategi yang  digunakan   bersifat   persuasive,   edukatif   dan   informative.  Hijabers Semarang</p><p>memanfaatkan berbagai media sosial seperti <em>facebook, twitter, instagram, </em>dan <em>web blog.</em></p>

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