From avengers to heroines: muslim*women dismantling hegemonic discourses
(2016) SIMV18 20161Graduate School
- Abstract
- Hegemonic European discourses about muslim*women reduce the complex living realities of muslim*women to the singular of the gendered and racialized other. This thesis investigates the hegemonic functioning of these discourses and explores postcolonial and queer theoretical approaches for dismantling it. Employing Mouffe and Laclau’s discourse analysis newspaper articles from seven European countries in English, French, and German are analysed. While the studies in case are a Pakistani cartoon series about the veiled super heroine Burka Avenger, and the fighters of the Kurdish women’s protection units YPJ. The analysis shows however, that discourses that are racializing and othering muslim*women can sustain hegemony, by disguising their... (More)
- Hegemonic European discourses about muslim*women reduce the complex living realities of muslim*women to the singular of the gendered and racialized other. This thesis investigates the hegemonic functioning of these discourses and explores postcolonial and queer theoretical approaches for dismantling it. Employing Mouffe and Laclau’s discourse analysis newspaper articles from seven European countries in English, French, and German are analysed. While the studies in case are a Pakistani cartoon series about the veiled super heroine Burka Avenger, and the fighters of the Kurdish women’s protection units YPJ. The analysis shows however, that discourses that are racializing and othering muslim*women can sustain hegemony, by disguising their particularities as universal. Going beyond identity politics, a postcolonial queer approach was compiled, focusing on the constitution of subjectivities and possibilities of politicising them. (Less)
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- author
- Waibel, Gina LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SIMV18 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Queer theory, postcolonial theory, Muslim, women, racism, nationalism, gender, Europe, discourse analysis
- language
- English
- id
- 8891300
- date added to LUP
- 2016-09-29 16:04:22
- date last changed
- 2016-09-29 16:04:22
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