<i>The Hijab Project</i>: Troubling Conceptions of Agency and Piety through Community-Engaged Art Making
This article focuses on <i>The Hijab Project</i>, a collective art exhibit that was created by a Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR) collective to address assumptions about Muslim women and girls who veil. The art project used data from a survey collect at Mount Top High, a sub...
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| description | This article focuses on <i>The Hijab Project</i>, a collective art exhibit that was created by a Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR) collective to address assumptions about Muslim women and girls who veil. The art project used data from a survey collect at Mount Top High, a suburban public high school in Utah, to inform the need for a public intervention that addressed issues of Islamophobia during a time of contentious political climate in the United States. Using transnational feminism to think about concepts of agency and piety, the article contends that, despite traditional framing of Muslim women as passive victims, through their artwork, the girls in this research group prove that religiosity and choice are not dichotomous. Lastly, this piece argues that <i>The Hijab Project</i> represents a successful example of critical community-engaged scholarship by demonstrating that partnerships between community members and universities can be a force for civic engagement and social change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a568b3e591c74deb889a7145338a98b52023-11-23T22:04:47ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602022-01-011123910.3390/socsci11020039<i>The Hijab Project</i>: Troubling Conceptions of Agency and Piety through Community-Engaged Art MakingAna Carolina Antunes0Division of Gender Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84115, USAThis article focuses on <i>The Hijab Project</i>, a collective art exhibit that was created by a Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR) collective to address assumptions about Muslim women and girls who veil. The art project used data from a survey collect at Mount Top High, a suburban public high school in Utah, to inform the need for a public intervention that addressed issues of Islamophobia during a time of contentious political climate in the United States. Using transnational feminism to think about concepts of agency and piety, the article contends that, despite traditional framing of Muslim women as passive victims, through their artwork, the girls in this research group prove that religiosity and choice are not dichotomous. Lastly, this piece argues that <i>The Hijab Project</i> represents a successful example of critical community-engaged scholarship by demonstrating that partnerships between community members and universities can be a force for civic engagement and social change.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/2/39Islamophobiaminoritized youtheducation |
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| title | <i>The Hijab Project</i>: Troubling Conceptions of Agency and Piety through Community-Engaged Art Making |
| title_full | <i>The Hijab Project</i>: Troubling Conceptions of Agency and Piety through Community-Engaged Art Making |
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