عنوان

Muslim Women Resist: An Arts-informed Qualitative Participatory Inquiry

شماره

TL53187

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Muslim Women Resist: An Arts-informed Qualitative Participatory Inquiry

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Bhattacharyya, Sriya

نام ساير پديدآوران

Lykes, M. Brinton

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Boston College

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

متن يادداشت

188 p.

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Boston College

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

Every day Muslim women in the United States wake up to a harsh political world that attacks their identities, communities, and freedom. In this context, Muslim women endure immense psychological tolls on their sense of identity, safety, and relationships. For many of them, walking out the door and claiming their Muslim identity is an act of political resistance. Despite the disempowerment they may experience, many engage in social actions to resist these oppressive forces. Yet, Muslim women activists have received strikingly little attention in the psychological literature. To date, no research has explored the psychosocial experiences of Muslim women who engage in activism, nor the meanings they make of these engagements or their trajectories of resistance. Using a participatory research approach informed by art-based inquiry techniques, this inductive qualitative study explored 10 Muslim women activists' trajectories into and experiences of engaging in social action. A constructivist theoretical model of Muslim women activists' processes of resistance and community liberation was developed through qualitative inductive analyses of in-depth interviews and participants' illustrations. Eight "clusters" have been configured to map a model that represents both processes and outcomes of how these 10 women engaged, experienced, and made meaning of their activism. They include: (1) living in a post 9/11 sociopolitical context; (2) navigating the Muslim community context; (3) internal experiences of being a Muslim woman; (4) guiding ideals toward activism journey; (5) development of political analyses; (6) resistance actions toward social change; (7) burdens and benefits of engagement in resistance; and (8) supportive forces in the process of resistance.  Although only representative of 10 participants, the model is sufficiently theorized to suggest that life in a multiply traumatizing context shapes Muslim women activists' experiences, precluding and contributing to their persistence and resistance throughout and during their engagement in social change work. Political analyses and ideals are vital in their descriptions of their trajectories of becoming activists. Benefits and burdens that are inevitable in social change work include both the thrill and fun of engaging in activism as well as the costs to relationships and conflicts inherent in such work. Finally, encouragement by other Muslims and allies is discussed as a valuable source of support to Muslim women activists. Limitations are discussed and implications are proposed to inform possibilities for future healing centered research and action.

اصطلاح موضوعی

Counseling psychology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Bhattacharyya, Sriya

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Lykes, M. Brinton

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Boston College

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y