Finding a jewel
Identity and gendered space in Islamic finance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18978232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Hunt Ahmed (DePaul University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 542-558 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture & Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354067x12456712 |
| OpenAlex | W2075643586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 37 |
In this article, I explore how globalization discourses practices work together to form the identities of female Islamic bankers working in the first stand-alone women’s Islamic bank in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. An Islamic bank interacts with the individual by providing a discursive and physical space in which the subject can shape and respond to her desire to identify and engage with the debates in the global Muslim community about morality, practice and the role of Islam in everyday life. Global financial systems and local gender practices are embodied in these buildings in a kind of financial purdah: building spaces become both a marketing tool and a support for globally-based economic activity under the auspices of morality and tradition. Based upon fieldwork and interviews with Islamic bankers, I show how normative global financial practices and local moral gender practices work together for the advancement of both
Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Everyday life · Geography · Globalization · Islam · Morality · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships
Engaging Cultural Differences
Islam, Gender, and Social Change
Thinking through cultures
Islam and the Moral Economy
Shoveling Smoke
Pathways for Positive Identity Construction at Work
Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?
Modernity and self-identity
Women and Gender in Islam
Culture, Power, Place
Modernity and Self-Identity
Women, work, and Islam in Arab societies
Attitudes towards women in the Arabian Gulf region
Politics of Piety
The construction of ethnic boundaries in classroom interaction through social space
Emergent organization in the dialogical self
The Social Construction of Space and Gender
The “Jock Body” and the Social Construction of Space
Imagined communities
Globalization and Religious Nationalism
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual
The Dialogical Self
Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture
Think Locally, Act Globally
Anthropological and accounting knowledge in Islamic banking and finance
Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives
Repressed futures
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |