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094172
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141774
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This article analyses how the post-9/11 fictional narratives of two Pakistani writers critique the racialisation of Islam in discourses of American homeland security, patriotism and national belonging after 9/11, which construct Muslims as terrorists and outsiders and disqualify them from US citizenship and belonging. More specifically, in light of many studies showing how Muslim youths increasingly adopt nationalist and religious identities after experiences of harassment following 9/11 and Islamophobia, the article assesses the identity crisis of Pakistani Muslim immigrant youth as depicted in The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Hamid, 2007) and Homeboy (Naqvi, 2010). We explore how these two authors show that these reactive identities are ideological constructs arising from highly diversified negotiations of the complex configuration of sociocultural and political factors in the post-9/11 world.
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182045
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How does surveillance shape political science research in the United States? In comparative and international politics, there is a rich literature concerning the conduct of research amid conditions of conflict and state repression. As this literature locates “the field” in distant contexts “over there,” the United States continues to be saturated with various forms of state control. What this portends for American politics research has thus far been examined by a limited selection of scholars. Expanding on their insights, I situate “the field” in the United States and examine surveillance of American Muslims, an understudied case of racialized state control. Drawing on qualitative data from a case study of sixty-nine interviews with Arab and Black American Muslims, I argue that surveillance operated as a two-stage political mechanism that mapped onto research methodologically and substantively. In the first stage, surveillance reconfigured the researcher-researchee dynamic, hindered recruitment and access, and limited data-collection. In the second stage, surveillance colored the self-perceptions, political attitudes, and civic engagement of respondents, thereby indicating a political socialization unfolding among Muslims. The implications of this study suggest that researchers can mitigate against some, but not all, of the challenges presented by surveillance and concomitant forms of state control.
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