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Zeinab Karimi - Selective Secularity and the Racialisation of Islam, Inbunden

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Selective Secularity and the Racialisation of Islam

Navigating Citizenship and the Labour of Explaining

Av Zeinab Karimi

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How do we understand secularisation at its intersection with race? This book provides a theoretical lens for examining the racialisation of Islam within the framework of modernity/coloniality. It investigates how Islam and people who are perceived as Muslims are treated in relation to the claimed secular space of Finland, analysed within a broader European context.Grounded in ethnographic work, it brings different disciplines into dialogue to make an analytical contribution across the sociology of religion, postcolonial thought and critical race and citizenship studies. The book offers the framework of selective secularity to further understand the mechanism through which the racialisation of Islam operates in contemporary times. It also introduces the concept of labour of explaining as an analytical lens to unpack the epistemic dimension of the racialisation of Islam and what it does to the racialised bodies. The book initiates intersectional debates that are highly relevant to questions of citizenship in relation to race and religion, with particular attention to the Finnish case.This book will therefore be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, critical race theory, the study of religion, postcolonial studies and citizenship studies. It will also be a useful resource for those who engage with questions of integration and diversity, including policymakers and practitioners.
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Zeinab Karimi is a university researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism at the University of Helsinki. She earned her PhD in sociology from the same university in 2020 and has published widely on migration, religion, race and belonging.

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"Karimi's Selective Secularity addresses an important gap in how we understand racism against Muslims and Islamophobia in Europe. Her attention to the intersection of race and religion is valuable, and her examination of lived citizenship provides useful empirical grounding for these theoretical discussions. Highly recommended."Piro Rexhepi, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK“Time to reverse the colonial gaze and watch how the watchers misbehave. In her timely and bold study, Zeinab Karimi lifts the delusional veil on European blind spots and chapter and verse reveals the emperor of Enlightenment modernity had no clothes. How can a vast polyvocal civilization like Islam be so callously racialized except as a mechanism of excluding a wide spectrum of humanity from citizenship and thereby dismantling your own claim to civil liberties and democratic principles? Karimi’s text laser beams on Finland but its insights expand to the rest of Europe and with it the “Western” Enlightenment Modernity that has long since exposed its colonial underpinning. A must read!”Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, USA

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