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Author Spiegel, Anna

Title Contested public spheres : female activism and identity politics in Malaysia / Anna Spiegel
Edition 1st ed
Published Wiesbaden : VS Research, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (369 pages)
Series VS research
VS research.
Contents pt. 1. Entering the world of NGOs -- pt. 2. Inside the world of NGOs : constituting female counterpublics -- pt. 3. Negotiating the public sphere in local and translocal settings
Summary This ethnographic monograph deals with women's organisations in an increasingly Islamised Malaysia and how they are fighting for women's rights and gender equality. Departing from an in-depth description of the life-world of female activists, Anna Spiegel highlights the significance of the global negotiations of gender relations for identity politics, the articulation of the local and the global within translocally acting social movements and the significance of globalisation for female agency. The study discusses the role of counterpublics in the development of subversive identity constructions and the renegotiation of the normative bases of publicness in the gendered fields of dress, cultural belonging, epistemic culture and Islam. Bringing together the global and the local, this is a global ethnography in the truest sense. This book is essential reading for researchers in the social sciences, in particular, cultural studies, subaltern studies, sociology, gender studies and Islamic studies. In addition, it is also of interest to scientists looking for new research methodologies in the study of globalisation
Analysis sociologie
sociology
sociale wetenschappen
social sciences
Social Sciences (General)
Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen)
Notes doctoral Universität, Bielefeld 2008
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Political activity -- Malaysia
Women -- Social aspects -- Malaysia
Human rights -- Malaysia
Human rights
Women -- Political activity
Women -- Social aspects
Malaysia
Genre/Form masters theses.
theses.
dissertations.
doctoral dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783531923710
3531923714