Evelyn Leslie Hamdon. Islamophobia and the Question of Muslim Identity: The Politics of Difference and Solidarity
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Abstract
Evelyn Leslie Hamdon. Islamophobia and the Question of Muslim Identity: The Politics of Difference and Solidarity. Winnipeg, MB: Fernwood Publishing, 2010. 112 pp. $17.95 sc. Through an ethnographic case study of coalition building across collective and individual differences, Hamdon examines Muslim group in Edmonton, Canada that came together challenge Islamophobia in their community. Islamophobia and the Question of Muslim Identity: The Politics of Difference and Solidarity is meant to stir conversation (9) bydisrupt ling] stereotypes both within the community and on the part of the dominant community towards those who identify as Muslims (23). Although Hamdon foregrounds the question of Muslim identity, there is much of value others who find themselves in need of negotiating spaces of contested identities. The book is good read for those interested in political activism and/or multicultural studies in general or Islamic studies in particular. The study is set in Canadian post-9/11 context in Edmonton and documents the fledgling efforts of coalition of Muslim organizations. Direct observation, personal interviews, and document analysis were used reconstruct the evolution of the Coalition. Hamdon speaks with emic authority, herself Muslim and a member of the Coalition from the time of its first visioning workshops until it was about one year old (12). Despite her insider status, Hamdon allows the voices of the participants be fully heard in the frequent data bites incorporated throughout the text. In large part, the study is concerned with identity ... how people organize, [and] coalesce across (23) and as result, draws on theories and theories of power. In addition, insights are taken from feminist and antiracist literature, as well as pedagogies of difference. Although the catalytic events of 9/11 and its aftermath gave birth the Coalition, members were motivated negotiate their differences by desire learn about other Muslims, share common experiences, work on common cause and reach out other Canadians. The value of Islarnophobia and the Question of Muslim Identity is not in reasons why the coalition came together but rather in the manner in which the members negotiated across difference of identities find solidarity in purpose. Hamdon takes the reader inside the contested space where coalition members navigated their way through diverse identities, challenged the power of essentialism and represented the complexity and multiplicity of Muslim identities. She foregrounds questions of within power dynamic by critiquing how difference and homogeneity are suppressed or privileged. Although coalitional organizing holds great promise for communities in which complex and intersecting identities and oppressions require expression and redress (61), it is not without personal struggles and varied emotional responses. …
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.050 | 0.018 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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