CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Jevtic, Jana |
|---|---|
| Title | Living the Global Muslim Protest: Boycotting Israel in Two European Urban Locales |
| Summary | The present thesis is an ethnographic study of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in two locals of Muslim activism in Europe: Tower Hamlets (London) and Stari Grad (Sarajevo). These locales concern, on the one hand, immigrant communities in a core Western metropolis that seek anti-racist and anti-imperialist politics and, on the other, a post-conflict struggle between “insiders” with rudimental rights to the city and two new categories of resident: the in-migrated Bosniak displaced persons from ethnically cleansed villages and a new wave of religious believers who adopted versions of Islam associated with Saudi donors and some of the Arabs who participated in the Bosnian war. By paying attention to how global BDS frames get locally appropriated within situated histories of Muslims in Tower Hamlets and Stari Grad, this thesis reveals a symbolic construction of Muslim identities driven by generational and class rivalries that constitute themselves partly through the symbolic and relational field of BDS. My study focuses on these dynamics. |
| Supervisor | Kalb, Don; Al-Bagdadi, Nadia |
| Department | Sociology PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/jevtic_jana.pdf |
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