Muslim women meme-ing citizenship in the era of War on Terror militarism |
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| Authors: | Isra Ali |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, New York, USA Isra.ali@nyu.edu |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT Facebook meme groups created by Muslim students at American universities are sites of intensive daily productivity, where members post memes they create, or share memes they find elsewhere, joking about the everyday lived experience of practicing Islam as part of a family, a community, and a society. Through the practice of making memes about Muslim piety, members of these groups articulate a form of cultural citizenship in Western liberal secular society through humor. Young Muslim women engaged in meme-making must contend with the intersections of gender and religion while making claims to American citizenship, doing the work of re-shaping belonging both in terms of American citizenship and in terms of Islamic practice and belief. |
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| Keywords: | Citizenship culture Islam War on Terror memes |
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