عنوان

Between the Politics of Difference and the Poetics of Similarity

شماره

LA116232

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Between the Politics of Difference and the Poetics of Similarity

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Marios Chatziprokopiou, Panos Hatziprokopiou

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper studies the ritual of Ashura as performed by a group of Shia Pakistani migrants in Piraeus, Greece, inscribed in the context of the financial crisis that is currently shaking the country and its socio-political implications, notably the rise of the far-right. Based on participant observation, we start by unfolding the discourses through which our interlocutors attempt to legitimise their religious practices, by connecting the Karbala narrative with the current political oppression of Shiite minorities, but also by articulating a poetics of similarity with equivalent acts of faith from the Greek cultural context, rather than arguments on multiculturalist difference. We then turn our attention to the way Ashura is portrayed by Greek art and media, and we unpack how the poetics of similarity and the politics of difference are presented from different viewpoints. Finally, we study how the interrelations between this migrant Shiite community and ideas regarding the "national self" are manifested in symbolic uses of blood-from murderous threats received by Neo-Nazi groups, to their rejected proposal for a blood-donation campaign parallel to the Ashura. This paper studies the ritual of Ashura as performed by a group of Shia Pakistani migrants in Piraeus, Greece, inscribed in the context of the financial crisis that is currently shaking the country and its socio-political implications, notably the rise of the far-right. Based on participant observation, we start by unfolding the discourses through which our interlocutors attempt to legitimise their religious practices, by connecting the Karbala narrative with the current political oppression of Shiite minorities, but also by articulating a poetics of similarity with equivalent acts of faith from the Greek cultural context, rather than arguments on multiculturalist difference. We then turn our attention to the way Ashura is portrayed by Greek art and media, and we unpack how the poetics of similarity and the politics of difference are presented from different viewpoints. Finally, we study how the interrelations between this migrant Shiite community and ideas regarding the "national self" are manifested in symbolic uses of blood-from murderous threats received by Neo-Nazi groups, to their rejected proposal for a blood-donation campaign parallel to the Ashura.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

198-215

عنوان

Journal of Muslims in Europe

شماره جلد

6/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2211-7954

اصطلاح موضوعی

Ashura

اصطلاح موضوعی

Greece

اصطلاح موضوعی

Middle East and Islamic Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

migrant Muslims

اصطلاح موضوعی

Piraeus

اصطلاح موضوعی

poetics of similarity

اصطلاح موضوعی

politics of difference

اصطلاح موضوعی

Shia Pakistanis

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sociology & Anthropology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Marios Chatziprokopiou

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Panos Hatziprokopiou

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/22117954-12341348

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y