Article: “Cultural Memory and Obstacles Challenging Digital Activist Muslims as Symbolic Violence”

Author: Bayram Sevinç

Published in: Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, Vol. 13, Issue 3 (November 2024), pp. 410–431

Publication Date: November 21, 2024

Publisher: Brill

Abstract:

Over the past two decades, Islamic movements and activism in the USA have progressed. The weak part of the explanation models for Islamic activism is an inclusive description of obstacles in the discursive field. These obstacles are essentially sources of symbolic violence in discourse. There is also a debate regarding the discursive representation of Muslims. Native and immigrant Muslims in the USA have struggled against the dominance of external discourses. Therefore, this study examines the essential boundaries and obstacles of the discursive field that activist Muslims (digital activists particularly) encounter when constructing discourses in the USA. In this study, I used the current activism findings to investigate the discursive field’s fundamental boundaries and obstacles. The research proves that barriers such as stigmatization, racialization, nativism, security paradigm, gender, marginalization, and discrimination form the main basis of symbolic violence.

Source: Brill Publishers