Messy refusal’, assimilationist moves, and the reproduction of Eurocentric modernity/coloniality
Examining anti-Islamophobia in Lebanon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7802157 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Kassem (0000-0001-6527-2304, National University of Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 684-703 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1070289x.2023.2207938 |
| OpenAlex | W4377823773 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 41 |
visibly Muslim women in Lebanon, a small country on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, experience significant anti-Muslim racism. Thinking through their anti-racist work, this article identifies and examines a refusal – a pre-emptive move away from power rather than against it that works to make it obsolete and survive despite it. Analysing this movement away, I argue, reveals it as a movement towards a neoliberal ‘civilized’, ‘cultured’, and consumer subject assimilating into Eurocentric modernity/coloniality while surviving in the materiality of its Muslimness. The article accordingly posits this as a form of ‘messy refusal’ – implicated in the cultural and epistemic reproduction of Eurocentric modernity/coloniality – and complexifies refusal’s growing celebration across anti/post/decolonial and indigenous scholarship. In doing this, it contributes to rethinking anti-Islamophobia from the so-called Middle East rather than Euro-America and examining it as a longer process rather than exclusively focusing on the racist moment and site
Aesthetics · Cultural assimilation · Environmental ethics · Essentialism · Ethnic group · Hegemony · Indigenous · Islamophobia · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Racism · Reproduction · Scholarship · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
Contentious Performances
‘Quicksand of Hate’
Troubled Geography
Local Histories/Global Designs
Anti-Muslim hate on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean
Negotiating secular boundaries
Muslim women as ‘ambassadors’ of Islam
Politics of Piety
Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Resistance
Local Histories/Global Designs
DIY citizenship amongst young Muslims
Strategies of resistance to anti-Islamic representations among Australian Muslim women
Belated Arabo-Islamic difference in excess
What is Racism
The crusade over the bodies of women
A repertoire of everyday resistance
Negotiating Multiple Identities, Constructing Western‐Muslim Selves in the Netherlands and the United States
Not Allowed to Love? Sri Lankan Maids in Lebanon
Conceptualizing Resistance
Resistance and marginalisation
The ruse of consent and the anatomy of 'refusal
Recounting Racism, Resistance, and Repression
Subjects of Debate
Young Muslims' Everyday Tactics and Strategies
Conscripts or volunteers? Young Muslims as everyday explainers
The 'Lost' Girls
Italians with veils and Afros
Do Muslim Women Need Saving
Theorizing (Vaccine) Refusal
Consent's Revenge
Dark anthropology and its others
Resistance/refusal
But You Are Also Ghanaian, You Should Know
The Matrix of Gendered Islamophobia
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |