RT Article
T1 The Muslim: Islamophobia as disembodiment
JF Culture and religion
VO 21
IS 4
SP 339
OP 358
A1 Chatterjee, Ipsita
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837652619
AB Islamophobia is not just a fear of people ascribing to the religion of Islam, if that was the case simple religious conversions would erase hatred. In the world of surging Alt-Right movements, Islamophobia embodies racism, anti-migrant xenophobia, and orientalism. This article explores Alt-Right groups in the US and Europe, traces their ideological gurus, deconstructs political speeches, reports of rightwing think tanks to understand how Islamophobia is a process of disembodiment. Inspired by Bourdieu’s habitus, and feminist work on embodiment/disembodiment, this article argues that the Muslim narrative thoroughly disembodies the Muslim body. Disembodiment is annihilation before corporeal death ensues, the Muslim does not get to mark her corporeal and intellectual existence. Disembodiment nullifies the Muslim’s life, she is only valuable in death, because disembodiment reclaims her death as a vanquished terrorist, as a murdered jihadi, or a bombed city where weapons of mass destruction or uranium may have existed.
K1 Feminism
K1 Geopolitics
K1 Orientalism
K1 anti-immigrant xenophobia
K1 Culture
K1 disembodiment
K1 Embodiment
K1 Race
K1 Islamophobia
DO 10.1080/14755610.2022.2125545