"I'm Trying to Give Them My Face." Everyday Embodied Agency of the Muslim Other in Amsterdam. Issue 1 (14th November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shaker, Reza; van Lanen, Sander; van Hoven, Bettina
• Is Part Of: Sociological forum. Volume 37:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 27
• Page End: 47
• Publication Date: 2021-11-14
• Subjects: Amsterdam -- encounter -- everyday agency -- the body -- the Muslim Other -- whiteness; Sociology -- Periodicals; 301
• DOI: 10.1111/socf.12777
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0884-8971

Abstract

Abstract : Focusing on the Muslim Other in Amsterdam, the article explores how individual young Muslims embody their agency in the forms of micro‐practices and socio‐spatial relations. By highlighting the spatio‐corporeal aspects of Muslims' presence within urban space, our ethnography foregrounds how young Muslims negotiate identities and belonging within everyday urban spaces of encounter. Dealing with the everyday panoptical white Othering gaze, we describe a range of "unremarkable" ordinary practices and everyday small agencies that young Muslims in Amsterdam adopt including invisibility, challenging whiteness, and accumulating whiteness.