Freunde führen einander – Der kommunalpolitische Dialog mit dem „Islam“ im Modus einer Gouvernementalität der Freundschaft

Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality and on ethnographic fieldwork in a German city, this paper addresses practices of governing <q>Muslims</q> and <q>Islam</q> at the level of local politics. It conceptualises these practices as a <i>governing throug...

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Main Author: J. Winkler
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017-07-01
Series:Geographica Helvetica
Online Access:https://www.geogr-helv.net/72/303/2017/gh-72-303-2017.pdf
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description Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality and on ethnographic fieldwork in a German city, this paper addresses practices of governing <q>Muslims</q> and <q>Islam</q> at the level of local politics. It conceptualises these practices as a <i>governing through friendship</i>, that is, a type of <q>liberal</q> conduct-of-conduct that focuses on trust-building and practised <q>togetherness</q>. The paper analyses techniques of governance and processes of subjectivation, putting an emphasis on how<i> emotionality</i> becomes integrated into governmental practices. I show how <i>governing through friendship</i> unfolds in the spatio-political context of a local dialogue with <q>Islam</q>, how the latter is linked to the interfaith paradigm and thus becomes a religiously-sensitive, post-secular political technology in which religious sensibilities are becoming elements of governmentality.
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spelling doaj.art-01a0a21cc86c4d19bea2a96ca5eda9bf2022-12-22T01:58:50ZdeuCopernicus PublicationsGeographica Helvetica0016-73122194-87982017-07-017230331610.5194/gh-72-303-2017Freunde führen einander – Der kommunalpolitische Dialog mit dem „Islam“ im Modus einer Gouvernementalität der FreundschaftJ. Winkler0Institut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nuremberg, GermanyDrawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality and on ethnographic fieldwork in a German city, this paper addresses practices of governing <q>Muslims</q> and <q>Islam</q> at the level of local politics. It conceptualises these practices as a <i>governing through friendship</i>, that is, a type of <q>liberal</q> conduct-of-conduct that focuses on trust-building and practised <q>togetherness</q>. The paper analyses techniques of governance and processes of subjectivation, putting an emphasis on how<i> emotionality</i> becomes integrated into governmental practices. I show how <i>governing through friendship</i> unfolds in the spatio-political context of a local dialogue with <q>Islam</q>, how the latter is linked to the interfaith paradigm and thus becomes a religiously-sensitive, post-secular political technology in which religious sensibilities are becoming elements of governmentality.https://www.geogr-helv.net/72/303/2017/gh-72-303-2017.pdf
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Freunde führen einander – Der kommunalpolitische Dialog mit dem „Islam“ im Modus einer Gouvernementalität der Freundschaft
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title Freunde führen einander – Der kommunalpolitische Dialog mit dem „Islam“ im Modus einer Gouvernementalität der Freundschaft
title_full Freunde führen einander – Der kommunalpolitische Dialog mit dem „Islam“ im Modus einer Gouvernementalität der Freundschaft
title_fullStr Freunde führen einander – Der kommunalpolitische Dialog mit dem „Islam“ im Modus einer Gouvernementalität der Freundschaft
title_full_unstemmed Freunde führen einander – Der kommunalpolitische Dialog mit dem „Islam“ im Modus einer Gouvernementalität der Freundschaft
title_short Freunde führen einander – Der kommunalpolitische Dialog mit dem „Islam“ im Modus einer Gouvernementalität der Freundschaft
title_sort freunde fuhren einander der kommunalpolitische dialog mit dem islam im modus einer gouvernementalitat der freundschaft
url https://www.geogr-helv.net/72/303/2017/gh-72-303-2017.pdf
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