“I’m Trying to Give Them My Face.” Everyday Embodied Agency of the Muslim Other in Amsterdam

Focusing on the Muslim Other in Amsterdam, the article explores how individual young Muslims embody their agency in the forms of micro‐practices and socio‐spatial relations. By highlighting the spatio‐corporeal aspects of Muslims' presence within urban space, our ethnography foregrounds how you...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.) N.J.), 2022-03, Vol.37 (1), p.27-47
Hauptverfasser: Shaker, Reza, Lanen, Sander, Hoven, Bettina
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Focusing on the Muslim Other in Amsterdam, the article explores how individual young Muslims embody their agency in the forms of micro‐practices and socio‐spatial relations. By highlighting the spatio‐corporeal aspects of Muslims' presence within urban space, our ethnography foregrounds how young Muslims negotiate identities and belonging within everyday urban spaces of encounter. Dealing with the everyday panoptical white Othering gaze, we describe a range of “unremarkable” ordinary practices and everyday small agencies that young Muslims in Amsterdam adopt including invisibility, challenging whiteness, and accumulating whiteness.
ISSN:0884-8971
1573-7861
DOI:10.1111/socf.12777