Search results for "Islamophobia"
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Reliģiski-filozofiski raksti, XXIV
2018
Par labirintiem un Ariadnes pavedienu Labirinta iziešana kā garīgs rituāls daudziem no mums ir svarīgs arī tagadnē. Taču diez vai tas saista mūs ar senā iniciācijas rita nozīmi. Drīzāk mēs šodien saredzam tajā nevis ceļu, kas ved mūs no savas sākotnes zaudēšanas uz tās no jauna atrašanu, bet gan psiholoģisku iespēju kādu brīdi aizmirst par racionālu domāšanu, ļaujoties labirinta centrā esošās dvēseles balsij, citiem vārdiem, bezapzinātā vēstījumam jeb savai intuīcijai, vai gluži otrādi, pārbaudīt savu loģiku un orientēšanās spējas. Iespējams, vēl vienkāršāk – mūsdienu cilvēkam labirints ir vien veids, kā uz brīdi aizmirst par ikdienas stresu. Ne jau velti visbiežāk mūsdienu labirinti ir daļ…
Digital Islamophobia: The Swedish woman as a figure of pure and dangerous whiteness
2016
This article addresses the digital culture of Islamophobic bloggers, focusing on the online circulation of a forensic photograph of a Swedish woman who was assaulted. The analysis shows how through appropriating this image, the bloggers created a unifying, imagined whiteness in the transnational Islamophobic network. The empirical analysis clarifies how this one image migrated and transformed in the blogosphere and legitimated the recurrent discursive trope of “Muslim rape.” This image became a subcultural “memory freeze frame” crystallizing the contemporary Islamophobic ideologies articulated in connection to race, ethnicity, nation, gender, and sexuality. The viral circulation of this im…
Politics of Fear and Racialized Rape: Intersectional Reading of the Kempele Rape Case
2018
Much of the anxiety, hatred, and fear felt toward asylum seekers as racialized others that had been aroused and incited during the summer and autumn of “the refugee crisis” of 2015 crystallized in the Kempele rape case. The case refers to the incident in which accusations were broadcast in the Finnish media that a suspected rape of a young girl by two refugees based at a newly established immigration detention center had occurred in the small town of Kempele in Northern Ostrobothnia on November 2015. It is an illuminating example of how race and ethnicity intertwine with gender in contemporary discussions that take place in both the traditional and social media. In this chapter I analyze th…
Counter-Narratives Against Prejudice. How Second-Generation Youth Reverse Media Representations
2022
This paper deals with the OLTRE project (ISF - DG Migration and Home Affairs, EU), funded to counter the radicalization of second-generation migrants in Italy and created by a network made up of universities and private companies. This article shows the results of a study regarding the involvement of second-generation youth in the co-production of the social campaign for online communication, representing the outcome of the OLTRE project. The guidelines for the campaign came from our in-depth sociological field research (42 qualitative interviews of 2G youths, 18-30 years, in 7 Italian towns (Palermo, Cagliari, Rome, Bologna, Milan, Padua, Turin) and from theatre laboratories created by sec…
Musuļmaņu imigrācijas opozīcijas dekonstrukcija Ziemeļu un Baltijas reģionā: Norvēģijas un Latvijas gadījums
2017
Musulmaņu imigrācijas jautājums ir bijis vienmēr strīdīgs Eiropā, bet notiekošā bēgļu krīzes to vēl vairāk ir saasinājusi. Maģistra darbā uzmanība ir pievērsta Ziemeļbaltijas reģionam, lai: 1)noskaidrotu, kā pēckara ekonomika un politika (kā piemēram, viesstrādnieku programmas, bēgļu politika un piespiedu iedzīvotāju pārvietošana) ir izveidojusi mūsdienu musulmaņu kopienu Norvēģijā un Latvijā; 2)analizētu publisko diskursu par musulmaņu imigrāciju Norvēģijā un Latvijā kopš 2015. gada. Leona Taivāna Latvijā un Andera Breivika (Anders Behring Breivik) Norvēģijā ideoloģiskais diskurss ir raksturots, analizēts un interpretēts. Pētījumā ir sniegta arī sešu plašsaziņas rakstu – “personisko bēgļu …
Multimodal disinformation about otherness on the internet : the spread of racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic fake news in 2020
2021
This work studies the use of disinformation to construct an image of otherness through the internet. We applied a content analysis methodology to the 161 racist, xenophobic or Islamophobic fake news pieces that were discredited in 2020 by the four Spanish information verification media entities accredited by the International Fact-Checking Network: Maldita.es , Newtral , Efe Verifica and Verificat . The results show that the most commonly used formats were image and video, that disinformation was most often based on taking information out of context and deception, and that the source could not be identified. The most shared characteristics associated otherness with receiving aid, violence a…