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Visual Representation of Shiite Muslim Mourning Rituals

Visual Communication Quarterly, 2015
This study deals with an important but still understudied aspect of visual representations of Islam. It compares how two international news agencies, the Associated Press and Reuters, visually portray Shia Muslim mourning rituals in five countries: Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan.
Yusuf Kalyango Jr, Karlyga N. Myssayeva, Aisha Mohammed   +2 more
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Evaluating Muslim American Representation

PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022
Nazita Lajevardi, Liesel Spangler
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‘Muslim Media’ and the Politics of Representation

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2014
This article examines data from a year-long project, ‘Muslims in the European Mediascape’, which explored the production and consumption of diversity issues in the United Kingdom and Germany. Here, I report on the findings from minority (predominantly Muslim) media producers and consumers in the United Kingdom; these findings demonstrate both the ...
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The Congressional Representation of Muslim-American Constituents

Politics and Religion, 2009
AbstractLegislators' responsiveness to constituency preferences is an accepted cornerstone of American representative democracy. Focusing on key domestic anti-terrorism votes during the 109th Congress, this study explores whether or not the presence of Muslim-Americans in a district influenced House members' roll-call behavior.
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Muslim Representation

Abstract This chapter investigates the political under-representation of Indian Muslims, focusing exclusively on the Lok Sabha. It dissects the spatial and institutional factors contributing to their limited presence in the legislative arena, specifically analysing nomination and election patterns.
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Communal Violence, Electoral Polarization, and Muslim Representation

2019
There are a number of commentaries, official reports, and well-researched academic books on communalism in India that directly or indirectly look at the nature of violence-centric electoral politics. However, our understanding of Muslim electoral politics is very limited.
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Muslim welfare bodies: New avenues of representation?

India Review, 2016
ABSTRACTA lot of ink has flown over the issue of political under-representation of Muslims in India and over affirmative action measures needed to redress this imbalance. However, a minimal amount of attention has been paid to how Muslims are finding new ways to counter this under-representation.
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Reconsidering Limited Representations of Islam and Muslims

Religious Studies and Theology, 2015
The spirit and intent of this reflection is to open up the ways in which the “single storying” of Islam and Muslims limits more ethical forms of relationality. This reflective piece seeks to make evident the ways in which limited representations of particular faith traditions produces feelings of isolation, exclusion and a sense of disconnect from ...
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Muslim researcher researching Muslim youth: reflexive notes on critical ethnography, positionality and representation

Ethnography and Education, 2017
ABSTRACTAs a Muslim researcher conducting a critical ethnography about/with/for Muslim youth and their school experiences, at this time of intensified Islamophobia and overwhelming discourses of ha...
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Muslim Political Representation in Telangana (2014–2024)

Asia and Africa today
Creation of the Telangana state in 2014 coincided with an ascend to power of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that upholds Hindu nationalism. Within the recent decade, India has been witnessing the strengthening of hindutva and the rise of Hindu-Muslim controversies, while in Telangana communalism has begun to decline. As Telangana experience demonstrates,
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