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Affective Witnessing of the Hijab: A Self-Inflicted Trauma

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect, 2023, p.366-373

2023 selection and editorial matter, Todd W. Reeser; individual chapters, the contributors ;ISBN: 0367492016 ;ISBN: 1032350849 ;ISBN: 9780367492014 ;ISBN: 9781032350844 ;EISBN: 1003045006 ;EISBN: 9781000738322 ;EISBN: 9781000737936 ;EISBN: 1000737934 ;EISBN: 9781003045007 ;EISBN: 1000738329 ;DOI: 10.4324/9781003045007-39

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  • Title:
    Affective Witnessing of the Hijab: A Self-Inflicted Trauma
  • Author: Abdel-Fadil, Mona
  • Reeser, Todd W.
  • Subjects: Book Industry Communication ; Gender studies, gender groups ; hijab ; Social groups ; Social groups, communities and identities ; Society & culture: general ; Society & social sciences ; Society and culture: general ; Society and Social Sciences ; thema EDItEUR ; trauma
  • Is Part Of: The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect, 2023, p.366-373
  • Description: The hijab has triggered affects for centuries. It has sparked narratives of “saving” Muslim women from the shackles of Muslim men and Islam. In recent years, we have seen several examples of individuals and collectives who experience the mere sighting of the hijab as intolerable. Here, I take a closer look at the affects of “awayness” that move through the hijab in contemporary Western contexts, and how these affects are performed, heightened, and intensified online. Drawing on a decolonial approach to affect and extensive ethnographic research, I argue that collectives who are deeply immersed in the heightened and intensified affective engagement against the hijab, spell out their own symbolic death. By continuously affectively witnessing the hijab, and triggering affects such as despair, anger, outrage, sorrow, and grief, it becomes a self-inflicted trauma, perceived as unbearable. Thus, affective witnessing shifts the focus from ascribed-victimization of Muslim women to self-victimization. And, the affective witnesses of hijab emerge as the “true victims” of hijab.
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0367492016
    ISBN: 1032350849
    ISBN: 9780367492014
    ISBN: 9781032350844
    EISBN: 1003045006
    EISBN: 9781000738322
    EISBN: 9781000737936
    EISBN: 1000737934
    EISBN: 9781003045007
    EISBN: 1000738329
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003045007-39
  • Source: OAPEN
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