Muslim Organisations' Response to Stigmatisation in the Media: Protest, Adaptation or Decoupling

In the heated media debate on Muslims and Islam, the role of community representatives is understudied. This article will first use original research see to what extent Muslims get the chance to speak out in newspapers in Western Europe, and then demonstrate through findings from interviews how repr...

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VerfasserInnen: Kassaye, Aida (VerfasserIn) ; Heelsum, Anja van 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill [2020]
In: Journal of Muslims in Europe
Jahr: 2020, Band: 9, Heft: 1, Seiten: 96-118
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Muslim / Islamischer Verein / Stigmatisation / Medien
RelBib Classification:AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
BJ Islam
weitere Schlagwörter:B Muslims
B Stigmatisation
B media debate
B Islamophobia
B Muslim organisations
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Zusammenfassung:In the heated media debate on Muslims and Islam, the role of community representatives is understudied. This article will first use original research see to what extent Muslims get the chance to speak out in newspapers in Western Europe, and then demonstrate through findings from interviews how representatives of Muslim organisations operate in the media. We build on Kerstin Rosenow-Williams's perspectives in combining two features, namely 1) the internal and external role of representatives of Muslim organisations, and 2) the active-passive dimension of responses to prejudice and stigmatisation as suggested in social psychology, and will distinguish three patterns: protest, adaptation and decoupling. Throughout the article, we zoom in on the remarkable dissimilarity between the UK and Germany. The British case shows a larger Muslim presence in the newspapers and the tendency of Muslim representatives to use a protest strategy, while the German case shows a lack of Muslim actors in the newspapers and a tendency of Muslim representatives to use an adaptation strategy.
ISSN:2211-7954
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of Muslims in Europe
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22117954-BJA10001