Digital Multiculturalism in the Netherlands: Religious, Ethnic and Gender Positioning by Moroccan-Dutch Youth

This article focuses on digital practices of Moroccan-Dutch adolescents in the Netherlands. The digital sphere is still rather understudied in the Netherlands. However, it offers a unique, entry to intersecting issues of religiosity, ethnicity and gender as well as to their implications for thinking...

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Auteurs: Leurs, Koen 1983- (Auteur) ; Midden, Eva (Auteur) ; Ponzanesi, Sandra 1967- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill [2012]
Dans: Religion & gender
Année: 2012, Volume: 2, Numéro: 1, Pages: 150-175
Sujets non-standardisés:B Multiculturalism
B online discussion boards
B Digital Media
B Conviviality
B Intersectionality
B Moroccan-Dutch youth
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Résumé:This article focuses on digital practices of Moroccan-Dutch adolescents in the Netherlands. The digital sphere is still rather understudied in the Netherlands. However, it offers a unique, entry to intersecting issues of religiosity, ethnicity and gender as well as to their implications for thinking about multiculturalism from new vantage points. What do digital practices such as online discussion board participation tell us about identity and multiculturalism? The three forms of position acquisition under discussion (gender, religion and ethnic positioning) show that neither religion, ethnicity, nor gender cease to exist in the digital realm but are constantly negotiated, reimagined and relocated. Drawing from the work of Modood, Gilroy and other critics of gender, media, multiculturalism and postcoloniality, we argue that online activities of the Moroccan-Dutch youth not only offer an important critique of mainstream media debates on multiculturalism, but also create space for alternative bottom-up interpretations of everyday practices of multiculturalism in the Netherlands.
ISSN:1878-5417
Contient:Enthalten in: Religion & gender
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18785417-00201008