{"id":2959,"date":"2019-09-09T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2019-09-09T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T07:00:07","slug":"religion-the-public-sphere-and-identity-politics-how-a-radical-muslim-organization-defies-the-populist-right-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"Religion, the public sphere, and identity politics: how a radical Muslim organization defies the populist right in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Amir Sheikhzadegan, Michael Nollert<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14616696.2017.1334951\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14616696.2017.1334951<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8220;The increasing visibility of Islam and the advance of right-wing anti-immigration politics in Switzerland have led to conflicts between assimilationists and Islamists. By focusing on two protagonists of this conflict \u2013 the populist right-wing <i>Swiss People\u2019s Party<\/i> (SVP) and the Islamist organization <i>Islamic Central Council Switzerland<\/i> (IZRS) \u2013 we deliver an analysis of their strategies and counter-strategies. We argue that the public visibility of Islam has become the main contested issue between both parties. Whereas the former strives for containing \u2018the Islamic threat\u2019 by pushing Islam out of the public sphere, the latter uses public visibility of Islam to establish this religion as an integral part of Swiss society. We further argue that both parties resort to well-developed boundary-making identity politics to either consolidate their collective identity (the IZRS) or to stigmatize the opponent (the SVP). We also show that both parties actively engage in constructing internally homogeneous and externally exclusive imagined communities.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"abstractKeywords\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"hlFld-KeywordText\"><strong>KEYWORDS<\/strong>: Public sphere<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span>Islamism<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span>populism<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span>identity politics<span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span>boundary-making<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Amir Sheikhzadegan, Michael Nollert Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14616696.2017.1334951 Abstract:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[48,7,57,521,151,9,259,223,566,11,95,444,168,254],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-48","tag-article","tag-comparative-analysis","tag-conflict","tag-cultural-identity","tag-english-language","tag-ethnicity","tag-islam","tag-islamophobia","tag-political-parties","tag-populism","tag-religious-institutions","tag-religious-practice","tag-right-wing-radicalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}