Being a young British Iraqi Shii in London: exploring diasporic cultural and religious identities between Britain and Iraq
Relying on an ethnographic research conducted both in the UK and Iraq, this article explores issues of cultural and religious identities among London-based young British Iraqi Shiis. Using Stuart Hall’s notions of ‘articulation’ and ‘new ethnicities’, I analyse how different realities and experience...
| Published in: | Contemporary Islam |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Springer
[2019]
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| In: |
Contemporary Islam
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| Further subjects: | B
Iraqi Shiism
B Sectarianism B British Shii Muslims B Transnational Shii Islam |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Relying on an ethnographic research conducted both in the UK and Iraq, this article explores issues of cultural and religious identities among London-based young British Iraqi Shiis. Using Stuart Hall’s notions of ‘articulation’ and ‘new ethnicities’, I analyse how different realities and experiences of space and class shape young British Iraqi Shiis self-identification in relation to socio-political, religious and ethnic belongings. |
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| ISSN: | 1872-0226 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Contemporary Islam
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11562-018-0433-y |