The Good Citizen and the Good Muslim: The Nexus of Disciplining the Self and Engaging the Public
2017 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
Based on two fieldworks in Chicago this working paper discusses the role that an Islamic organization – the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)– plays for the invigoration of the deprived neighborhood Chicago Lawn. The working paper describes and analyses IMAN’s claim to so-called ghetto cosmopolitanism, its building on past race-based struggles in the neighborhood, and also how IMAN challenges ideas of correct religious practice within the American Muslim community. The particular context of the working paper is the festival “Takin’ it to the Streets” which is one of IMANs most prolific activities. Via its focus on popular music, graffiti art and talks the festival can be seen as an example of teaching the public – both about a minority religion but also about the potential resources of a deprived inner-city neighborhood.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö University, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) , 2017. , p. 23
Series
MIM Working Paper Series ; 17:6
Keywords [en]
Islam, United States, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, minorities
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-12920Local ID: 25815OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-12920DiVA, id: diva2:1409966
Note
Bio Notes Garbi Schmidt is a professor of Intercultural Studies at the University of Roskilde, Denmark. She holds a Phd in Islamic Studies and a Dr. Phil in migration research. Schmidt’s research includes anthropological studies of Muslim and immigrant communities in the United States and Scandinavia, and historical and anthropological studies of migration to Copenhagen. Recent publications include “Going beyond methodological presentism: Examples from a Copenhagen neighborhood 1885-2010”, Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (2017)and “Space, Politics and Past-Present Diversities in a Copenhagen Neighbourhood”, In Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (2016)
2020-02-292020-02-292020-09-14Bibliographically approved