CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Beauduin, Adrien |
|---|---|
| Title | Women Activists In The Czech Anti-Islam Movement: From Cologne To #Metoo |
| Summary | As the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’ unfolded in Europe, rather obscure anti-Islam groups came to the forefront and agitated against the welcoming of refugees in Czechia. They developed into a movement mixing the critique of Islam with racist ideas targeting Muslims and others. While these discourses often presented male refugees as potential Islamist terrorists at the onset of the crisis, the mass sexual assaults in Germany on New Year's Eve 2015/2016, for which male refugees and Muslims in general were largely blamed, increasingly led to the depiction of refugees, migrants and Muslims as young male sexual predators. Based on the qualitative analysis of online publications of - and on interviews with - five of the main women activists of the anti-Islam / anti-refugee movement, the present work analyses how the Czech anti-Islam / anti-refugee movement’s nationalist discourses of inclusion and exclusion rely on gender and sexuality. Focusing on two events, the NYE assaults and the anti-sexist #MeToo campaign, this thesis tries to locate the role of sexism and sexual violence in these activists’ discourses, and to understand the way the activists’ gender comes into play to explain their involvement in the movement. |
| Supervisor | Helms, Elissa |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/beauduin_adrien.pdf |
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