Veranstaltungsdetails - Islam in European Discourses on Migration and Identity
| Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften |
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| Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften |
| Wintersemester 2013/2014 |
| Islam in European Discourses on Migration and Identity | |
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| Zeit: | Termine am Fr. 18.10. 10:00 - 19:00, Sa. 19.10. 11:00 - 15:00 |
| Veranstaltungsnummer: | 3.90.103 |
| Studienbereiche: | Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > Musikwissenschaften > Interdisziplinäre Module > ipb618 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > Niederlandistik > Interdisziplinäre Module > ipb618 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > Germanistik > Interdisziplinäre Module > ipb618 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > Kulturanalysen > Interdisziplinäre Module > ipb618 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > Deutschland-Osteuropa: Kulturkontakte in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart > Frühere Module > PB MA 5 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > Sprachdynamik: Erwerb, Variation, Wandel > Interdisziplinäre Module > ipb618 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Deutsch als Zweitsprache > Interdisziplinäre Module > ipb618 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > Kunst- und Medienwissenschaft > Interdisziplinäre Module > ipb618 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > Integrated Media: Audiovisuelle Medien in Praxis, Theorie und Vermittlung > Interdisziplinäre Module > ipb618 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > Slavische Studien > Interdisziplinäre Module > ipb618 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften > Master > English Studies > Interdisziplinäre Module > ipb618 Transculturality and Cultural Mobility |
| DozentIn | Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril Dr. Ulrike Lingen-Ali |
| Heimat-Einrichtung: | Fakultät 3: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften |
| Typ der Veranstaltung: | Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre |
| ECTS-Punkte: | 1 |
| Beschreibung: | Outline The prominence of the trope "Islam" as religious as well as cultural monolithic entity indicates recent shifts in migration and identity discourses not only in Europe as a supranational formation, but also in its nation states. Reinforcing already historically established orientalist and colonial paradigms, "European values" are seen as irreconcilable with worldviews linked to Islam. The debate about the membership of "Muslim Turkey" in the "Secular-Christian European Union" can be read as a striking example for such discourse patterns (see for the debate, e.g., Casanova 2004). However, in contrast to former discourses the drawings of (imaginary) borderlines between "we" and "the others" currently go far beyond the constructions of "occident and orient" as geopolitical spaces. The religious-cultural denoted term "Muslim migrant" as substitution of the former ethnic-national denoted term "guest worker" or "immigrant worker" signifies newly established borders within European nations (Yilmaz 2012). In times of the "war against terror" the essentialising of Muslims includes the binary classification on the one hand of "extremist"/ "fundamentalist"/ "pious Muslims" and on the other hand of "moderate Muslims". Those referred to as "moderate Muslims" who emphasize the necessity of reforming Islam and their adherence to liberal secular norms are regarded as migrants who could be integrated in European societies. Nevertheless, such ascriptions are not fixed; they rather are floating in current discursive settings. In other words, according to widespread negative images in politics, media, film as well as in social science "moderate Moslems", too, can easily be relabeled and be perceived as a (potential) threat for the coherence and/ or security of European societies. In particular, the emphasis of Muslim opposition to gender equality and liberal sexual policies plays an important role as marker of difference and is supported by all political strands. The shifts in European discourses on migration and identity have been analysed in social science as "Islamophobia", as a current mode of racialising or racialized governmentality (Tyrer and Sayyid 2012). The social scientist Levent Tezcan introduces the term "Homo Islamicus" in his analysis of processes of subjectivation as a result of the interplay between governmental techniques, public ascriptions and the claims and self-ascriptions of Muslim organizations (Tezcan 2007, 2012). Besides politics of exclusion or suspicion, there exist also inclusive politics of "islamization" of migrants which operate via empowerment of religious identity and actors. The workshop, public lecture and film presentation address concepts and case studies which try to grasp the current social and political developments from different perspectives - analysing policies, public debates and visual representations in European countries. Additionally, a closer look shall be taken at which strategies could or should be employed to interrupt patterns of labeling as well as essentialist constructions of groups of people as eligible subjects for fixed conceptions of European identity/ identities (in often silent alignment with neoliberal democratic forms of governance and formations of social existence) Readings Brubaker, Rogers 2013 "Categories of Analysis and Categories of Practice: a Note on the Study of Muslims in European Countries of Immigration" in Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 36/1, 1-8. Korteweg, Anna C. and Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos 2013 "Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity: Intersections and Boundaries in Immigrant Integration Policy Making" in Social Politics, vol. 20/1: 109–136. Rosello, Mireille 2011 "Ismaël Ferroukhi's Babelized Road Movie" in Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture. Conflict, Resistance, and Agency, edited by Mieke Bal and Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro, Amsterdam [et al.]: Rodopi: 257-275. Tezcan, Levent 2008 "Governmentality: Pastoral Care and Integration" in Ala Al-Hamarneh and Jörn Thielmann (eds.) Islam and Muslims in Germany, Leiden: Brill: 119-132. Yilmaz, Ferruh 2012 "Right-Wing Hegemony through the Immigration Debate in Europe" in Current Sociology, vol. 60/3: 368-381. Programme a) Workshop Friday 18 October, from 10.00 to 17.00 h at Schlaues Haus Oldenburg, Schlossplatz 16, 26122 Oldenburg b) Public Lecture Friday 18 October, from 19.00 h at Schlaues Haus Oldenburg, Schlossplatz 16, 26122 Oldenburg Schlaues Haus Oldenburg, Schlossplatz 16, 26122 Oldenburg Integration as Promise for Salvation. Case Study: German Islam Conference Levent Tezcan, Tilburg University, Netherlands c) Film Presentation Saturday 19 October, from 11.00 to 15.00 h at Cine K, Bahnhofstraße 11, 26122 Oldenburg Le Grand Voyage (France/ Morocco 2004), Drama, directed by Ismael Ferroukhi, 108 min. "A tribute to the 97% of Muslims we never hear about in the Western world" is how French writer/director Ismael Ferroukhi describes his pleasingly understated road movie. Le Grand Voyage's premise involves a devout elderly patriarch (Mohamed Majd) forcing his reluctant teenage son Reda (Nicolas Cazalé) to drive them from their home in France to Saudia Arabia on a once-in-a-lifetime religious pilgrimage. … Wisely the director doesn't provide us with detailed information about the duo's past experiences, giving Le Grand Voyage the feel of a contemporary fable, whilst the air of mystery is further heightened by the elliptical editing style. And not only does this well-acted film successfully challenge cultural preconceptions of Islamic belief, but in the climactic scenes amidst the collective fervour of Mecca, it achieves an unexpected emotional intensity. (BBC) The workshop organizers will introduce the film and provide space for discussion after the presentation. Snacks and drinks will be available. This workshop is organised by European Master Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR), Center for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, and Evangelische Akademie (Protestant-Lutheran Academy) Oldenburg in cooperation with Integrationsbeauftragte der Stadt Oldenburg (Commissioner for Integration) and Cine K Oldenburg |
| Ort: | (Schlaues Haus Oldenburg): Fr. 18.10. 10:00 - 19:00, (cine k): Sa. 19.10. 11:00 - 15:00 |
| TutorInnen: | Jan Kühnemund |
