Emancipating ethics

An autonomist reading of Islamic forms of life in Russia

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ID2254036
AutoresMatteo Benussi (0000-0001-9166-036X, Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley 232 Anthropology and Art Practice Building Berkeley CA 94720‐3710 USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume28
Fascículo1
Páginas30-51
Data de publicação2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9655.13649
OpenAlexW4200268391
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas44

This article advances a framework aimed at capturing the political life of ethical intensity by putting autonomist theory in resonance with ethnographic material pertaining to quietist Muslim milieus in post-Soviet Russia. The emancipatory and prefigurative potential of collective projects of self-legislation - in this case, 'halal living' - are explored through the notions of ethical form of life and Rule/Law. It will be argued that autonomist theory (a) is helpful in conceptualizing the friction between ethical projects (however quietist) and dominant moral/political orders; (b) has the potential to broaden anthropological conversations on virtue beyond existing fault lines (notably between what I call 'traditionist' and 'liberal' theoretical families) as well as conceptual silos ('religion', 'secularity'); and (c) can help us envision a radical, politically engaged anthropology of ethics

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Islam · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Secularity · Sociology · Virtue · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy