Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: The Meanings of Europe : Changes and Exchanges of a Contested Concept

Editor list: Wiesner, C; Schmidt-Gleim, M

Publication year: 2014

Pages: 179-193

ISBN: 978-0-415-85706-2

eISBN: 978-0-203-79563-7

URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203795637/chapters/10.4324/9780203795637-23

Title of series: Routledge advances in sociology

Number in series: 118

Abstract: 

Recent observers of the ways minorities, and especially Muslims, of a nonEuropean migration attribution get framed in public discourses in Europe have noted the labelling of Muslims as Others that is based on a culturalised understanding of Europeanness vs. Muslimity (cf. Balibar 1991; Hüttermann 2009; Ezli 2009; Tezcan 2008; Schiff auer 2007). These critiques of culturalism hinge on the argument that minorities in contemporary western, especially European, societies are symbolically constructed in political and public discourses. Sometimes those arguments are extended into a conceptualization of the state of minorities as constitutive Others and as those that are excluded through instruments of alleged inclusion (see Schwarz 2010). Through policies and institutions that have been deliberately set up in order to integrate Muslims into the majority society, like the policy of community integration in the UK and the Deutsche Islam Konferenz, it is argued, a Muslim subject is constructed by way of reference to cultural characteristics attributed to Islam (patriarchy, religious intolerance, inclination to support authoritarian political systems, etc.), on which basis that subject is then held liable to respond to the demands of the political system (cf. McGhee 2003; Tezcan 2011).

Harvard Citation style: Langenohl, A. (2014) Scenes of Voting: Reactions to the Swiss Referendum on the Ban on the Construction of Minarets (2009) in Switzerland and Germany, in Wiesner, C. and Schmidt-Gleim, M. (eds.) The Meanings of Europe : Changes and Exchanges of a Contested Concept. New York: Routledge, pp. 179-193. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203795637/chapters/10.4324/9780203795637-23

APA Citation style: Langenohl, A. (2014). Scenes of Voting: Reactions to the Swiss Referendum on the Ban on the Construction of Minarets (2009) in Switzerland and Germany. In Wiesner, C., & Schmidt-Gleim, M. (Eds.), The Meanings of Europe : Changes and Exchanges of a Contested Concept (pp. 179-193). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203795637/chapters/10.4324/9780203795637-23