Cornelia Goethe Center for Gender and Women’s Studies
GRADE Center Gender
"Recent debates about racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism often highlight the differences between these phenomena. Some argue that criticizing Islam is an exercise of the freedom of opinion. Negatively stereotyping Muslims is considered as a form of discrimination, but is not labelled as racism, because Muslims are ‘not a race’.
In this seminar, in contrast, we investigate how racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism function in similar ways as technologies of categorization, classification, domination and exclusion, that is, as part of configurations of power. Rather than considering the concepts of race, religion and culture as bounded and separate, we elaborate on how, in practice, they tend to overlap and become entangled. Tracing the genealogies of concepts such as ‘Jews’, ‘Muslims’, ‘Arabs’ and ‘Semites’, we focus on how variously categorized people have become defined as Europe’s internal and external Other under conditions of empire and colonization. We engage in these discussions to better understand the effects of the contemporary disentanglement of various forms of racialization and racism, including Islamophobia and antisemitism. One of these effects it the displacement of antisemitism from ‘Europe’ onto ‘Muslims’ and other racialized Others."
Zeit: 5. Mai.2021, 10:00
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