Publication: “Burka Songs 2.0: The Discourse on Islamic Terrorism and the Politics of Extremization in Sweden”
2020-08-19
“Burka Songs 2.0: The Discourse on Islamic Terrorism and the Politics of Extremization in Sweden”, in Journal of Religion and Violence, by Per-Erik Nilsson, associate Professor in Sociology of Religion and as director and senior researcher at the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR).
Summary:
This article analyzes a minor event in the city of Gothenburg in Sweden that rose from being a local scandal to become a national mediatized political affair. It is argued that local articulations of the discourse on Islamic terrorism function as a way of regulating access to the public sphere by the politics of extremization, i.e., the performative identification of certain Muslim subjects as threats to the established order by their very presence in the public sphere. It is also argued that the polarization of political debate brought about by the mediatization of politics, coupled with the dichotomous logic of the discourse on Islamic terrorism, poses serious challenges to any sound and deliberate political debate. Link.
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