Semua Penyertaan Ditandai Dengan: "Kalbir Shukra"

Islam and the New Political Landscape

IN THE wake of the attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, and the Madrid and London bombings of 2004 dan 2005, a literature that addresses the forms and modalities of religious expression – particularly Islamic religious expression – has flourished in the penumbral regions that link mainstream social science to social policy design, think tanks and journalism. Much of the work has attempted to define attitudes or predispositions of a Muslim population in a particular site of tension such as London or the UK (Barnes, 2006; Ethnos Consultancy, 2005; GFK, 2006; GLA, 2006; Populus, 2006), or critiqued particular forms of social policy intervention (Bright, 2006a; Mirza et al., 2007). Studies of Islamism and Jihadism have created a particular focus on the syncretic and complex links between Islamic religious faith and forms of social movement and political mobilization (Husain, 2007; Kepel, 2004, 2006; McRoy, 2006; Neville-Jones et al., 2006, 2007; Phillips, 2006; Roy, 2004, 2006). Conventionally, fokus analisis telah menonjolkan budaya Islam, sistem kepercayaan orang beriman, dan trajektori sejarah dan geografi penduduk Islam di seluruh dunia amnya dan di 'Barat' khususnya (Abbas, 2005; Ansari, 2002; Eade dan Garbin, 2002; Hussein, 2006; Modood, 2005; Ramadhan, 1999, 2005). Dalam artikel ini penekanannya berbeza. Kami berpendapat bahawa kajian tentang penyertaan politik Islam perlu dikontekstualisasikan dengan teliti tanpa menggunakan generalisasi besar tentang budaya dan kepercayaan.. Ini kerana kedua-dua budaya dan kepercayaan distrukturkan oleh dan seterusnya menstruktur budaya, landskap institusi dan musyawarah di mana ia diutarakan. Dalam kes pengalaman British, kesan tersembunyi agama Kristian dalam pembentukan negara berkebajikan pada abad yang lalu, the rapidly changing cartography of spaces of the political and the role of ‘faith organizations’ in the restructuring of welfare provision generate the material social context determining the opportunities and the outlines of new forms of political participation.