Chapter 34 Affective Witnessing of the Hijab
The hijab has triggered affects for centuries. It has sparked narratives of “saving” Muslim women from the shackles of Muslim men and Islam. In recent years, we have seen several examples of individuals and collectives who experience the mere sighting of the hijab as intolerable. Here, I take a clos...
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| description | The hijab has triggered affects for centuries. It has sparked narratives of “saving” Muslim women from the shackles of Muslim men and Islam. In recent years, we have seen several examples of individuals and collectives who experience the mere sighting of the hijab as intolerable. Here, I take a closer look at the affects of “awayness” that move through the hijab in contemporary Western contexts, and how these affects are performed, heightened, and intensified online. Drawing on a decolonial approach to affect and extensive ethnographic research, I argue that collectives who are deeply immersed in the heightened and intensified affective engagement against the hijab, spell out their own symbolic death. By continuously affectively witnessing the hijab, and triggering affects such as despair, anger, outrage, sorrow, and grief, it becomes a self-inflicted trauma, perceived as unbearable. Thus, affective witnessing shifts the focus from ascribed-victimization of Muslim women to self-victimization. And, the affective witnesses of hijab emerge as the “true victims” of hijab. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-977172025-05-08T08:53:20Z Chapter 34 Affective Witnessing of the Hijab Abdel-Fadil, Mona hijab, trauma The hijab has triggered affects for centuries. It has sparked narratives of “saving” Muslim women from the shackles of Muslim men and Islam. In recent years, we have seen several examples of individuals and collectives who experience the mere sighting of the hijab as intolerable. Here, I take a closer look at the affects of “awayness” that move through the hijab in contemporary Western contexts, and how these affects are performed, heightened, and intensified online. Drawing on a decolonial approach to affect and extensive ethnographic research, I argue that collectives who are deeply immersed in the heightened and intensified affective engagement against the hijab, spell out their own symbolic death. By continuously affectively witnessing the hijab, and triggering affects such as despair, anger, outrage, sorrow, and grief, it becomes a self-inflicted trauma, perceived as unbearable. Thus, affective witnessing shifts the focus from ascribed-victimization of Muslim women to self-victimization. And, the affective witnesses of hijab emerge as the “true victims” of hijab. 2023-03-03T04:39:49Z 2023-03-03T04:39:49Z 2023-02-22T11:11:27Z 2023 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61390 9780367492014 9781032350844 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/97717 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61390/1/9781003045007_10.4324_9781003045007-39.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61390/1/9781003045007_10.4324_9781003045007-39.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61390/1/9781003045007_10.4324_9781003045007-39.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61390/1/9781003045007_10.4324_9781003045007-39.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003045007-39 10.4324/9781003045007-39 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9780367492014 9781032350844 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection Routledge 9 open access |
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