Between the spaces
Experts on Islam in Russia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6255658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristina Kovalskaya (0000-0001-7724-3324, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Paris Research University (PSL), France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 752-768 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnicities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468796820907182 |
| OpenAlex | W3008595732 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
This paper discusses the question of knowledge construction on Islam in contemporary Russia through the lens of the category of space. Many everyday categories used by Muslims to characterize their identity are linked to spatial references. Starting from the idea of locality and ending in the search of traditional forms of Islam, these categories are highly politicized in the contemporary context. The aim of this paper is to explore the intermediary space between the political and the religious fields, the space of circulation between these fields in which experts on Islam are situated. Indeed, numerous academic specialists engage in expertise on Islam by creating or recycling categories, which circulate between the secular and the religious spaces. These experts have different backgrounds, different profiles and different strategies. Their impact on religious and political processes varies too. In addition, the experts of Islam have different characteristics according to the space they act in. We will compare these experts’ discourses in various regions (Moscow, Tatarstan and Dagestan) to analyse their strategies and the way in which they relate to their environment. Besides blurring the border between the secular and the religious by ensuring a permanent circulation of categories, the experts on Islam activate political and religious notions in a different manner according to their spatial affiliation. This concerns the reference to the local or international Muslim space as well as their normative discourse on acceptable forms of Islam
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Geography · Identity (music · Islam · Linguistics · Locality · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
From the Sociology of Intellectuals to the Sociology of Interventions
Rethinking Expertise
Believing in Russia - Religious Policy after Communism
Religion, state and politics in the Soviet Union and successor states
Public Religions in the Modern World
Here or elsewhere
Common sense is not so common
Academic Expertise and Anti-Extremism Litigation in Russia
Domestication’ or Representation? Russia and the Institutionalisation of Islam in Comparative Perspective
The Social Dynamics of Russia’s Desecularisation
Recycling Cultural Construction
Religious political technology
Discussions about indigenous, national and transnational Islam in Russia
Nationalism and Religion in the Discourse of Russia’s ‘Critical Experts of Islam’
Sociologie politique de l’expertise
The social construction of reality
The paradoxes of a localised Islamic orthodoxy
Disciplining an Unruly Field
De l'endiguement à l'engagement
Le champ scientifique
La sociologie de l'expertise
Beyond 'identity
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |