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Representation of Muslims in French Media and its Impact on Public Perception and Self-Identity [PDF]
Social Science ChronicleThis study examines the representation of Muslims in French media and its effects on public perception and self-identity within Muslim communities, with a specific focus on Muslim girls.
Laurent Dupont
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Multi-faceted representation of Muslims in “Ramy”
, 2022 Research on the representation of Muslims in the media has predominantly focused on stereotypes that misrepresent Muslims. Sutkutė’s (2020) analysis on “The Kite Runner,” and Morey and Yaqin’s (2011) analysis on “Yasmin” both conclude that these narratives affirm the dominant discourse that represents Muslims as primarily violent and oppressive.
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Copts, Islamists and Jews:Gender, minorities, hybridity (and its limits) in two novellas by Bahaa Abdelmegid [PDF]
, 2016 Bahaa Abdelmegid's novellas Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers feature a range of intertwined relations: sexual, commercial, as neighbours, and as colleagues between Jews, Christians and Muslims in Egyptian society since 1967.
IRVING, SARAH
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Women Judges and Women\u2019s Rights in Pakistan [PDF]
, 2017 Although the first appointment of women judges in Pakistan dates back to 1974, the massive appointment of “lady judges” in the past decade has caused a jump in female representation in the judiciary to more than one third – a quiet move
Holden, Livia
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Transnational Feminism, Islam, and the Other Woman: How to Teach
Radical Teacher, 2019 The author argues that “the progressive scholar engaging women’s issues in the Muslim world must strive to do three things: historicize feminism, historicize Islam, and highlight the complexities of representation” – and she explains how.
Perin Gurel
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Methane Generation Using an Anaerobic Biodigester From Waste Leachate Water
Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Leachate wastewater (LWW) is characterized by slow biodegradation and low biogas production due to resistant materials and limited biological activity. Therefore, applying pretreatments is essential to improving biodegradation potential, which consequently boosts energy recovery.
Khairi R. Kalash +5 more
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Challenging Media Representations of the Veil
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2000 The image of the Muslim woman’s veil in the popular western media is that it is a symbol of oppression and violence in Islam. The forced covering of women in postrevolutionary Iran, or lately, under the Taliban in Afghanistan seems to confirm this image ...
Katherine Bullock
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