Between the Politics of Difference and the Poetics of Similarity
This paper studies the ritual of Ashura as performed by a group of Shia Pakistani migrants in Piraeus, Greece, inscribed in the context of the financial crisis that is currently shaking the country and its socio-political implications, notably the rise of the far-right. Based on participant observat...
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Journal of Muslims in Europe
Year: 2017, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 198-215 |
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Ashura
Shia Pakistanis
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poetics of similarity
politics of difference
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