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Searching for Common Ground: Language, culture and ideology in the case of the Arab-American diaspora
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Schumann APSA draft 2005
Searching for Common Ground: Language, culture and ideology in the case of the Arab-American diaspora
Dr. Christoph Schumann, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg(christoph.## email not listed ##)
Prepared for delivery at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Sep. 1 – Sept. 4, 2005. Copyright by the American Political Science Association.
Abstract:In the current age of globalization, ‘civilizations’ or ‘cultural traditions’ can hardly distinguished from each other. The result is not a homogenization of culture but a diffusion of cultural differences by processes of migration, media communication, imperialism, and free market economies. Arab or Muslim culture, for instance, is being produced today in places like Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Houston and, of course, in what is called the ‘Arab’ and ‘Muslim World’. For this reason, political scientists must discuss methodologies and theories with view to the processes of cultural translation in a modern and globalized society.
This paper uses the concepts of ‘diaspora’ and ‘translation practices’ as they were laid out by Brent Hayes Edwards in “The Practice of Diaspora”. By looking at the bi-lingual magazine Al-Hewâr (The Dialogue) this paper takes the Arab-American and Muslim American diasporas as an example. It argues that the main challenge for these two communities is to maintain a distinct identity while connecting the communities to their wider social environments in the United States and in the homelands of the Arab and Muslim world. The choice of language (English and/or Arabic), the establishment of community media, and the concept of ‘dialogue’ play a key role for reaching this goal. Within this framework, the paper analyzes how the three concepts of Islam, ‘Arabism’ and American society are discussed and related to each other in Al-Hewâr from its foundation in 1989 until today.
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Schumann APSA draft 2005
Searching for Common Ground: Language, culture and ideology in the case of
the Arab-American diaspora
Dr. Christoph Schumann, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg
(christoph.## email not listed ##)
Prepared for delivery at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Sep. 1 – Sept. 4, 2005. Copyright by the American Political Science Association.
Abstract:
In the current age of globalization, ‘civilizations’ or ‘cultural traditions’ can hardly
distinguished from each other. The result is not a homogenization of culture but a diffusion of
cultural differences by processes of migration, media communication, imperialism, and free
market economies. Arab or Muslim culture, for instance, is being produced today in places
like Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Houston and, of course, in what is called the ‘Arab’
and ‘Muslim World’. For this reason, political scientists must discuss methodologies and
theories with view to the processes of cultural translation in a modern and globalized society.
This paper uses the concepts of ‘diaspora’ and ‘translation practices’ as they were laid out by
Brent Hayes Edwards in “The Practice of Diaspora”. By looking at the bi-lingual magazine
Al-Hewâr (The Dialogue) this paper takes the Arab-American and Muslim American
diasporas as an example. It argues that the main challenge for these two communities is to
maintain a distinct identity while connecting the communities to their wider social
environments in the United States and in the homelands of the Arab and Muslim world. The
choice of language (English and/or Arabic), the establishment of community media, and the
concept of ‘dialogue’ play a key role for reaching this goal. Within this framework, the paper
analyzes how the three concepts of Islam, ‘Arabism’ and American society are discussed and
related to each other in Al-Hewâr from its foundation in 1989 until today.
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