Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations

Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations

by Katy P. Sian
Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations

Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations

by Katy P. Sian

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Overview

This book provides a critical investigation into Sikh and Muslim conflict in the postcolonial setting. Being Sikh in a diasporic context creates challenges that require complex negotiations between other ethnic minorities as well as the national majority. Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations maps in theoretically informed and empirically rich detail the trope of Sikh-Muslim antagonism as it circulates throughout the diaspora. While focusing on contemporary manifestations of Sikh-Muslim hostility, the book also draws upon historical examples of such conflict to explore the way in which the past has been mobilized to tell a story about the future of Sikhs. This book uses critical race theory to understand the performance of postcolonial subjectivity in the heart of the metropolis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739178751
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 04/04/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 148
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Katy P. Sian is a lecturer in sociology at The University of Manchester. Previously she was a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Leeds where she also completed her PhD. She takes a key interest in debates surrounding racism and ethnicity studies, sociology, Sikh studies, Islamophobia, postcolonialism, Diaspora and South Asian identity.

Table of Contents

Introduction: ‘Shoot the ‘Pakis!’’ The Art of Storytelling
Chapter 1: Deconstructing Sikhs
Chapter 2: The Development of the Sikh Diaspora
Chapter 3: A History of Conflict
Chapter 4: Explaining Conflict
Chapter 5: Sweet Seduction: ‘Forced’ Conversion Narratives
Chapter 6: Accounting for Sikh and Muslim Conflict
Chapter 7: Sikhs and the British Ethnoscapes
Chapter 8: Sikh NOT Muslim- Questioning Sikh Islamophobia
Chapter 9: ‘Who is a Sikh?'
Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

Claire Alexander

In this groundbreaking and challenging book, Katy Sian explores the under researched and often fraught issue of relationships between minority ethnic groups in the UK. Combining historical and textual analysis with empirical research and personal reflections, and tracing the complex connections and disjunctions between South Asia and Britain, Sian provides a provocative insight into the formation of contemporary intra-Br-Asian and diasporic identities. This book poses difficult and important questions for researchers of race, ethnicity, religion and identity, and anyone who wishes to understand the textures and tensions of modern multi-ethnic Britain.

Rita Kaur Dhamoon

Unsettling Sikh & Muslim Conflict takes central topics of our time —diaspora politics, postcoloniality, anti-terrorism, identity, immigrants and national belonging, Islamophobia, religion, secularism, and race— and places them under a new, penetrating light. This book radically shifts the focus from the current preoccupation with ‘multiculturalism versus security,' to a more critical terrain of how subjects and nations come into being. Uniquely, the argument focuses not only on majority-minority relations, but on how relations among minorities are articulated and rearticulated through dominant frameworks that perpetuate racism, and that simultaneously invite/require Sikhs to align themselves to Islamophobic imaginings of the nation. This book compels readers to re-think how we understand Sikh identity, the political nature of Sikh-Muslim relations, and the possibilities of decolonization. At the same time, it not only challenges us to re-imagine how we understand Sikh diasporas in this ‘age of terror’, but also how political constructions of religion and Otherness more generally are produced in ways that secure both hegemonic practices of nation-building and colonized formations of the ‘model minority.' Katy Pal Sian offers a compelling and insightful analysis that should be read by scholars and non-academics concerned with the politics of difference.

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