Asmaa's Headscarf - on pride and prejuces in the Danish Public Sphere

Beskrivelse

  The headscarf-wearing Danish Muslim Asmaa Abdol-Hamid ran for office in the Danish election campaign 2007 for the communist party Enhedslisten but failed to get election. In the paper I identify the different discourses employed by on the one hand Asmaa Abol-Hamid and her affiliates and on the other hand those employed by her critics. I will map the major struggles for legitimacy and identify the linguistic-structural conditions that have influenced her highly fluctuating legitimacy and popularity in the Danish public sphere. The aim of the paper is to explore how a headscarf-wearing Muslim female identity may be constructed as legitimate in a cultural Christian public sphere as the Danish one. The study is based on insights from lingustics and pragmatics and therefore provides a cultural sensitive analysis of the contemporary conditions for Muslim identity construction.

Periode	5 sep. 2008
Begivenhedstitel	Representing Islam - Comparative Perspectives
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Arrangør	University of Manchester
Placering	Manchester, StorbritannienVis på kort