Contested Public Spheres: Female Activism and Identity Politics in Malaysia - Softcover

Spiegel, Anna

 
9783531174532: Contested Public Spheres: Female Activism and Identity Politics in Malaysia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3531174533 ISBN 13: 9783531174532
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010

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Female Activism and Identity Politics in Malaysia

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Anna Spiegel is currently employed at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she is coordinating desiguALdades.net, the Research Network on Inderdependent Inequalities in Latin America.

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This ethnographic monograph deals with women’s organisations in an increasingly Islamised Malaysia and how they are fighting for women’s rights and gender equality. Departing from an in-depth description of the life-world of female activists, Anna Spiegel highlights the significance of the global negotiations of gender relations for identity politics, the articulation of the local and the global within translocally acting social movements and the significance of globalisation for female agency. The study discusses the role of counterpublics in the development of subversive identity constructions and the renegotiation of the normative bases of publicness in the gendered fields of dress, cultural belonging, epistemic culture and Islam. Bringing together the global and the local, this is a global ethnography in the truest sense.

This book is essential reading for researchers in the social sciences, in particular, cultural studies, subaltern studies, sociology, gender studies and Islamic studies. In addition, it is also of interest to scientists looking for new research methodologies in the study of globalisation.

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Verlag
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3531174533
ISBN 13 
9783531174532
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
372
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