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Different Strokes: American Muslim Scholars Engage Media and Politics in the Woke Era
American Muslim intercommunal disunity (fitnah) is exemplified by an emic event when an editorial foray contests the inherited legacies of black Muslim icons like Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, which exigently compels “diplomats” of different minds into engaging the digital public square with calculate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8196274/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34149166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-021-09406-7 |
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description | American Muslim intercommunal disunity (fitnah) is exemplified by an emic event when an editorial foray contests the inherited legacies of black Muslim icons like Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, which exigently compels “diplomats” of different minds into engaging the digital public square with calculated strokes. The woke era’s partisan identity politics asymmetrically curtail acceptable expressions of religious authority on issues of race, religion, and politics. Hence, scholars spend their social capital as political actors in these ultracrepidarian environments to different ends. This multi-year study conducted across global sites analyzes scholars with dissimilar approaches to media and political engagement amidst an environment characterized by weaponized media, polarization, and shifting goal posts. Participant observation and textual analysis impart scenes of scholars with fraught associations to administrations, funding sources, and feuding authoritarian Arab regimes getting embroiled in geopolitical hostilities. With mainstream American Muslim narratives aligned with mainstream media’s liberal filter bubbles, scholars impact consensus building with varying levels of success; those negotiating compromise within spheres of legitimate contestation and consensus ad interim maintain subsisting influence. However, those that do not are expurgated and thereby cede influence. |
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spelling | pubmed-81962742021-06-15 Different Strokes: American Muslim Scholars Engage Media and Politics in the Woke Era Latif, Jibril Int J Polit Cult Soc Article American Muslim intercommunal disunity (fitnah) is exemplified by an emic event when an editorial foray contests the inherited legacies of black Muslim icons like Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, which exigently compels “diplomats” of different minds into engaging the digital public square with calculated strokes. The woke era’s partisan identity politics asymmetrically curtail acceptable expressions of religious authority on issues of race, religion, and politics. Hence, scholars spend their social capital as political actors in these ultracrepidarian environments to different ends. This multi-year study conducted across global sites analyzes scholars with dissimilar approaches to media and political engagement amidst an environment characterized by weaponized media, polarization, and shifting goal posts. Participant observation and textual analysis impart scenes of scholars with fraught associations to administrations, funding sources, and feuding authoritarian Arab regimes getting embroiled in geopolitical hostilities. With mainstream American Muslim narratives aligned with mainstream media’s liberal filter bubbles, scholars impact consensus building with varying levels of success; those negotiating compromise within spheres of legitimate contestation and consensus ad interim maintain subsisting influence. However, those that do not are expurgated and thereby cede influence. Springer US 2021-06-12 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8196274/ /pubmed/34149166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-021-09406-7 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Latif, Jibril Different Strokes: American Muslim Scholars Engage Media and Politics in the Woke Era |
title | Different Strokes: American Muslim Scholars Engage Media and Politics in the Woke Era |
title_full | Different Strokes: American Muslim Scholars Engage Media and Politics in the Woke Era |
title_fullStr | Different Strokes: American Muslim Scholars Engage Media and Politics in the Woke Era |
title_full_unstemmed | Different Strokes: American Muslim Scholars Engage Media and Politics in the Woke Era |
title_short | Different Strokes: American Muslim Scholars Engage Media and Politics in the Woke Era |
title_sort | different strokes: american muslim scholars engage media and politics in the woke era |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8196274/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34149166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-021-09406-7 |
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