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- Poljarevic, Emin, FD
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Islamism
- 2014
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Ingår i: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780199739363
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Poljarevic, Emin, FD
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New Islamic Movements and Concepts of Citizenship
- 2021
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa. - Oxon : Routledge. - 9780367178932 - 9780429058288 ; , s. 201-214
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter analyzes elements of the contemporary discussion on citizenship rights among a number of centrist, or Wasati, Islamist movements and intellectuals. It demonstrates that a number of such movements are religiously and politically informed, while at the same time being motivated to endorse a notion of citizenship rights. This notion includes deliberation processes about equal economic, social, political, and religious rights between male and female Muslims, as well as between Muslims and members of other religious minorities. The analysis focuses partly on two well-known Wasati intellectuals, Rachid Al-Ghannouchi and Yusuf Qaradawi, both of whom represent different religiously informed socio-political deliberation strategies within the contemporary Wasati discourses. Their pragmatism, sometimes described as fiqh al-waqi’, has increasingly become an important part of the contemporary political reasoning, including the conceptualization of citizenship rights, in the Middle East and North Africa. A part of the analysis focuses on Islamist grassroots mobilization in a range of countries, which incorporate components of citizenship rights discourse in their campaigning efforts, but also components of “acts of citizenship.” These acts of citizenship are oftentimes tied to Islamist activists’ involvement in NGOs and welfare projects that address the needs of citizens in a particular context.
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- Poljarevic, Emin, FD, et al.
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Religion och samhällsengagemang bland unga svenskar
- 2019
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Ingår i: Unga och religion. - : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789151101361
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Unga svenskars förtroende för de etablerade politiska partierna har minskat de senaste decennierna. Samtidigt visar mätningarna att ungdomars politiska intresse har ökat, liksom deras upplevelse av att kunna påverka samhället. Undersökningarna kan tolkas på olika sätt. Det kan innebära att unga i högre grad än tidigare uttrycker sitt politiska intresse genom aktiviteter utanför den traditionella partipolitiken, såsom via sociala medier eller genom individualiserade livsstilsval som att sortera sopor och donera till välgörenhet, och genom nya gräsrotsrörelser som exempelvis mobiliserar för rättvisa och mot diskriminering. Undersökningarna tyder på att unga svenskars samhällsengagemang utvecklas i en mer mångfasetterad riktning. Sociala medier och internet spelar exempelvis en större roll i mobiliseringen av unga i politiken idag än för bara tio år sedan. Vissa former av politiskt deltagande blir mer innovativa och demokratistärkande, medan andra former kan tolkas som demokratiförsvagande.
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- Poljarevic, Emin, FD, et al.
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Social Movements and Civil Wars : When Protests for Democratization Fail
- 2017
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- The main aim of this volume is to develop a theoretical explanation of the conditions under which and the mechanisms through which social movements’ struggles for democracy end up in civil war. While the empirical evidence suggests that this is not a rare phenomenon, the literatures on social movements, democratization and civil wars have grown apart from each other. At the theoretical level, Social Movements and Civil War bridges insights in the three fields, looking in particular at explanations of the radicalization of social movements, the failure of democratization processes and the onset of civil war. In doing this, it builds upon the relational approach developed in contentious politics with the aim of singling out robust causal mechanisms. At the empirical level, the research provides in-depth descriptions of four cases of trajectory from social movements for democratization into civil wars: in Syria, Libya, Yemen and the former Yugoslavia. Conditions such as the double weakness of civil society and the state, the presence of entrepreneurs of violence as well as normative and material resources for violence, ethnic and tribal divisions, domestic and international military interventions are considered as influencing the chains of actors’ choices rather than as structural determinants.
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- Poljarevic, Emin, FD
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The Ambiguity of Citizenship in Contemporary Salafism
- 2017
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Ingår i: The Crisis of Citizenship in the Arab World. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004340565 ; , s. 338-374
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The idea of citizenship (muwatana) for many, if not most, activist Salafis represents an expression of belonging to a community of believers within or without the confines of state borders. This communitarian understanding ties in with their particular theological understanding of religious, and therefore social and political, boundaries between communities – an us vs. them worldview – that implies that some of the rights and responsibilities of “believers” are not available to “unbelievers” or to the wrong kind of “believers.” Like many other fundamentalist religious movements (e.g. Ḥaredi Jewish groups, the Vishva Hindu Parishad, or the Buddhist Madhatha movement, and even pre-modern Calvinists), Salafi groups are keen to separate friends from enemies and the righteous from the unrighteous. What is more, the particular Salafi worldview ultimately produces strict, dichotomising sets of practices that perpetuate the continuous conflict between “friends and enemies,” wherein members of the in-group are on God’s side and those of the out-group are not. The method of separating these opposites permeates not only their religious and social activities, but also marks their political activism.
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- Poljarevic, Emin, FD
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The Political Theology of Malcolm X : Between Human Dignity and Returning the Gaze
- 2020
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Ingår i: Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift. - Lund. - 0039-6761. ; 96:1, s. 11-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article makes a limited attempt to explain a part of the reason why Malcolm X's radical activism for freedom, justice, and equality presumably resonates with a large number of disempowered people around the world today. The analysis presented herein is based on a modified understanding of political theology that captures some of the appeal of Malcolm X's message and his pursuit of human dignity. Two components of his political theology stick out as arguably the most relevant for a number of contemporary civil rights movements in a wide range of places around the world. One is the distinction between friends and enemies based on people's support for or opposition to a collective pursuit of human dignity, often times expressed as human rights, religious freedoms, economic justice, and so on. The other component is the returningthe gaze argument, which points towards Malcolm X's ability to articulate an unapologetic and empowering indictment of the majority society and its overbearing political, cultural, and economic power structures. This argument represents a moral and ethical effort to gain human dignity in a sociopolitical context perceivably premised on repression and inequality. The underlying political theological argument is thus found in Malcolm X's empowerment discourse. This discourse is today oftentimes decontextualized, which adds to its resonance among the global Muslim youth who seek inspiration for mobilization against apparent injustices beyond the traditional voices, and in a variety of sociopolitical, linguistic, and cultural contexts.
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- Poljarevic, Emin, FD
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The Power of Elective Affinities in Contemporary Salafism
- 2016
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Ingår i: The Muslim World. - : Wiley. - 1478-1913 .- 0027-4909. ; 106:3, s. 474-500
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the minds of the general public, Salafism is a radical reactionary movementcomprised of fundamentalists motivated by a nitpicking religious zeal. Bearing thisin mind, one cannot help but wonder why some young Muslims are attracted tothe supposed religio-anarchism and chaos that makes up its worldview. Despitethe current mass-production of analyses and descriptions, little serious attentionhas been given to the affinities that some adolescent Muslims have for this kind of religious life. This article explores these affinities through a critical analysis of thediscursive nexus between a regimented religious lifestyle and utopian visions of “the perfect community.” It further suggests that this nexus represents one of thecentral motivational forces behind much of its adherents’ current activism. Thisinterconnection between the social agents’ desire for a specific lifestyle (manhaj )and their utopian visions of it is revealed in the elective affinities between thesetwo “forces.” The article offers a deeper insight into the motivational dynamics andSalafi subjectivities of this global movement’s emotional capital, one of itstrademarks.
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