Mayanthi L Fernando
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 645778 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mayanthi L Fernando |
| NOMBRES | Mayanthi L |
| APELLIDO | Fernando |
| FIRMA | FERNANDO M L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 245 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Trouillot Remixed
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State Sovereignty and the Politics of Indifference
The politics of recognition remains a common way to articulate and adjudicate minorities’ claims, yet, as a number of scholars have argued, calling on the state for redress serves to secure the state’s sovereignty. Drawing on Muslim French activism in France, the author suggests that this structure of sovereignty, premised on the adjudication of minority demands (for equality, for recognition), might also be the condition of possibility for its d…
La question musulmane en France
Anthropological publics, public anthropology
Based on a transcript from the AAA 2016 roundtable on "anthropological publics, public anthropology," organized by Sindre Bangstad, held at the AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 18, 2016, and edited, referenced, and footnoted by Sindre Bangstad, this forum explores prominent anthropologists' experiences of doing "public anthropology," asks what kind of structural impediments there are in our time to the engagement of wider…
That Muslim Question
Davidson, Naomi. 2012. Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell Univeristy Press. 320 pages.Laurence, Jonathan. 2012. The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims: The Stat
Intimacy Surveilled
This article examines the nexus of sex, religion, and secularity in contemporary France. It analyzes the ways in which political, legal, and institutional practices aimed at securing secularity compel Muslim French women to reveal the innermost details of their sexual and religious lives. In legal forums and public debates, for example, Muslim French women have to disclose deeply personal information about their sexual and religious beliefs and p…
The Republic Unsettled
In 1989 three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to remove their Islamic headscarves in class. The headscarf crisis signaled an Islamic revival among the children of North African immigrants; it also ignited an ongoing debate about the place of Muslims within the secular nation-state. Based on ten years of ethnographic research, The Republic Unsettled alternates between an analysis of Muslim French religiosity and the contradictions o…
Ethnography and the politics of silence
This article traces a few elements of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's critique of anthropology, which was, I argue, part of his broader anthropology of the West. The article first considers Trouillot's analysis of the conditions of possibility for anthropology's emergence as a field formation, including the asymmetries and silences produced by academic disciplines like anthropology and history. It then attends to Trouillot's attempts to remake and redee…
Save the Muslim Woman, Save the Republic
Using the successful Maghrebi-French feminist organisation Ni Putes Ni Soumises (NPNS) as an analytical springboard, this article examines the French Republic's sudden investment in promoting sexual equality and sexual freedom in the banlieues. Broadly, I hold that understanding the state's embrace of NPNS and its investment in Maghrebi-French sexuality requires that scholars attend to the historicity of the contemporary neoliberal moment in Fran…
Belief and/in the Law
This article examines how ‘belief’ has emerged as the privileged site of religion in human rights law, rendering some forms of ethical life unintelligible to secular-modern law and politics. I first analyze models of ethical personhood in which actions like veiling or praying do not only signify piety but are also integral to achieving it. I next turn to tracing how the 2004 French ban on headscarves in public schools was seen as a non-violation …
Reconfiguring freedom
Through an analysis of the practice of veiling, I first examine how pious Muslim French women reconcile the dominant secular oppositions between personal autonomy and religious authority, and between the "true" self and religious norms, as they constitute themselves as religious subjects. I then turn to the 2004 law banning headscarves in public schools, and to the attendant public debates, exploring how this Muslim French religiosity was rendere…
TheveilintheWest - Christian Joppke, Veil
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The Avowal and Disavowal of Difference France
Paul Silverstein. Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, Nation. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. December, 2004. 288 pp. In Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation, a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly researched study drawing on twenty months of fieldwork in Paris and its working-class suburbs in the mid 1990s, Paul Silverstein maps out the production, deployment, contestation, and re-deployment of social difference…
The Republic Unsettled
In 1989 three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to remove their Islamic headscarves in class. The headscarf crisis signaled an Islamic revival among the children of North African immigrants; it also ignited an ongoing debate about the place of Muslims within the secular nation-state. Based on ten years of ethnographic research, The Republic Unsettled alternates between an analysis of Muslim French religiosity and the contradictions o…
Reconfiguring freedom
Through an analysis of the practice of veiling, I first examine how pious Muslim French women reconcile the dominant secular oppositions between personal autonomy and religious authority, and between the "true" self and religious norms, as they constitute themselves as religious subjects. I then turn to the 2004 law banning headscarves in public schools, and to the attendant public debates, exploring how this Muslim French religiosity was rendere…
Ethnography and the politics of silence
This article traces a few elements of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's critique of anthropology, which was, I argue, part of his broader anthropology of the West. The article first considers Trouillot's analysis of the conditions of possibility for anthropology's emergence as a field formation, including the asymmetries and silences produced by academic disciplines like anthropology and history. It then attends to Trouillot's attempts to remake and redee…
Save the Muslim Woman, Save the Republic
Using the successful Maghrebi-French feminist organisation Ni Putes Ni Soumises (NPNS) as an analytical springboard, this article examines the French Republic's sudden investment in promoting sexual equality and sexual freedom in the banlieues. Broadly, I hold that understanding the state's embrace of NPNS and its investment in Maghrebi-French sexuality requires that scholars attend to the historicity of the contemporary neoliberal moment in Fran…
Anthropological publics, public anthropology
Based on a transcript from the AAA 2016 roundtable on "anthropological publics, public anthropology," organized by Sindre Bangstad, held at the AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 18, 2016, and edited, referenced, and footnoted by Sindre Bangstad, this forum explores prominent anthropologists' experiences of doing "public anthropology," asks what kind of structural impediments there are in our time to the engagement of wider…
Belief and/in the Law
This article examines how ‘belief’ has emerged as the privileged site of religion in human rights law, rendering some forms of ethical life unintelligible to secular-modern law and politics. I first analyze models of ethical personhood in which actions like veiling or praying do not only signify piety but are also integral to achieving it. I next turn to tracing how the 2004 French ban on headscarves in public schools was seen as a non-violation …
State Sovereignty and the Politics of Indifference
The politics of recognition remains a common way to articulate and adjudicate minorities’ claims, yet, as a number of scholars have argued, calling on the state for redress serves to secure the state’s sovereignty. Drawing on Muslim French activism in France, the author suggests that this structure of sovereignty, premised on the adjudication of minority demands (for equality, for recognition), might also be the condition of possibility for its d…
La question musulmane en France
That Muslim Question
Davidson, Naomi. 2012. Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell Univeristy Press. 320 pages.Laurence, Jonathan. 2012. The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims: The Stat
The Avowal and Disavowal of Difference France
Paul Silverstein. Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, Nation. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. December, 2004. 288 pp. In Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation, a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly researched study drawing on twenty months of fieldwork in Paris and its working-class suburbs in the mid 1990s, Paul Silverstein maps out the production, deployment, contestation, and re-deployment of social difference…
The Avowal and Disavowal of Difference France
Paul Silverstein. Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, Nation. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. December, 2004. 288 pp. In Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation, a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly researched study drawing on twenty months of fieldwork in Paris and its working-class suburbs in the mid 1990s, Paul Silverstein maps out the production, deployment, contestation, and re-deployment of social difference…
TheveilintheWest - Christian Joppke, Veil
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reconfiguring freedom
Through an analysis of the practice of veiling, I first examine how pious Muslim French women reconcile the dominant secular oppositions between personal autonomy and religious authority, and between the "true" self and religious norms, as they constitute themselves as religious subjects. I then turn to the 2004 law banning headscarves in public schools, and to the attendant public debates, exploring how this Muslim French religiosity was rendere…
Belief and/in the Law
This article examines how ‘belief’ has emerged as the privileged site of religion in human rights law, rendering some forms of ethical life unintelligible to secular-modern law and politics. I first analyze models of ethical personhood in which actions like veiling or praying do not only signify piety but are also integral to achieving it. I next turn to tracing how the 2004 French ban on headscarves in public schools was seen as a non-violation …
Save the Muslim Woman, Save the Republic
Using the successful Maghrebi-French feminist organisation Ni Putes Ni Soumises (NPNS) as an analytical springboard, this article examines the French Republic's sudden investment in promoting sexual equality and sexual freedom in the banlieues. Broadly, I hold that understanding the state's embrace of NPNS and its investment in Maghrebi-French sexuality requires that scholars attend to the historicity of the contemporary neoliberal moment in Fran…
Intimacy Surveilled
This article examines the nexus of sex, religion, and secularity in contemporary France. It analyzes the ways in which political, legal, and institutional practices aimed at securing secularity compel Muslim French women to reveal the innermost details of their sexual and religious lives. In legal forums and public debates, for example, Muslim French women have to disclose deeply personal information about their sexual and religious beliefs and p…
The Republic Unsettled
In 1989 three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to remove their Islamic headscarves in class. The headscarf crisis signaled an Islamic revival among the children of North African immigrants; it also ignited an ongoing debate about the place of Muslims within the secular nation-state. Based on ten years of ethnographic research, The Republic Unsettled alternates between an analysis of Muslim French religiosity and the contradictions o…
Ethnography and the politics of silence
This article traces a few elements of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's critique of anthropology, which was, I argue, part of his broader anthropology of the West. The article first considers Trouillot's analysis of the conditions of possibility for anthropology's emergence as a field formation, including the asymmetries and silences produced by academic disciplines like anthropology and history. It then attends to Trouillot's attempts to remake and redee…
That Muslim Question
Davidson, Naomi. 2012. Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell Univeristy Press. 320 pages.Laurence, Jonathan. 2012. The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims: The Stat
La question musulmane en France
Anthropological publics, public anthropology
Based on a transcript from the AAA 2016 roundtable on "anthropological publics, public anthropology," organized by Sindre Bangstad, held at the AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 18, 2016, and edited, referenced, and footnoted by Sindre Bangstad, this forum explores prominent anthropologists' experiences of doing "public anthropology," asks what kind of structural impediments there are in our time to the engagement of wider…
State Sovereignty and the Politics of Indifference
The politics of recognition remains a common way to articulate and adjudicate minorities’ claims, yet, as a number of scholars have argued, calling on the state for redress serves to secure the state’s sovereignty. Drawing on Muslim French activism in France, the author suggests that this structure of sovereignty, premised on the adjudication of minority demands (for equality, for recognition), might also be the condition of possibility for its d…
Trouillot Remixed
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