SYNOPSIS

A variety of unsettling socio-political and ideological processes are raging in a number of North-Atlantic liberal societies where Muslim are a visible minority. In some of these societies that experience unsettling and increasingly polarizing social and political changes, Muslim youth is increasingly discovering and reinterpreting Malcolm X’s political thought and activism. This translation process is at times prompted by youth’s desire to find authentic forms of internal critique of and responses to perceived and experienced Islamophobia expressed through social and mass media-discourses and increasingly repressive government policies. In this process, Malcolm X has increasingly come to symbolize a form of radical and poignant immanent critique of the repressive social conditions and political order and its negative effects on Muslim minority populations. This presentation offers an analysis of some of the contents of Malcolm X’s anti-racist activism and discourse of empowerment, and its effects on Muslim mobilization in two case-studies of Muslim youth’s social mobilization in European context.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Emin Poljarević is Associate Professor, Sociology of Religion, and a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Theology and Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is a Swedish-Bosnian scholar of Muslim social movements and Islamic intellectual thought in Muslim majority (the MENA and Balkan regions) and minority contexts (Europe and the U.S.).

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