This article scrutinizes shifts in media coverage of soccer player Mesut Özil during the 2018 World Cup and his subsequent resignation from the German national team. Our analysis highlights the ...dominance of a multicultural integration discourse that connotes a particularly German understanding of multicultural diversity as only valuable when it is subordinate to an individual's integration into German culture. Multicultural integration implicitly constructs Germanness as white through dubious claims of the "civilizational superiority" of Western/Christian secularism and a rejection of non-Western/Islamic religiosity as fundamentally "inferior" or "un-democratic." The shifting treatment of Özil from an exemplar of multicultural integration to a symbol of its failure illustrates the underlying racialized-religious foundation of the discourse and Germany's remaining attachments to whiteness vis-à-vis Christianity.
Queering the LDS Archive Mohrman, K.
Radical history review,
05/2015, Letnik:
2015, Številka:
122
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article brings attention to the lack of scholarship on Mormonism in the history of sexuality. The author proposes rereading Latter-day Saint (LDS) history through a queer theoretical lens ...arguing that it is essential for historians to access religious archives. In doing so, the author posits, researchers will benefit from challenging the familiar scripts on religion and sexuality that are dominant in both academic and popular discourse. Accessing these types of archival spaces must be paralleled by a shift in archival practice that moves away from recuperation and instead seeks to (re)theorize the process of “queering the archive.” The Mormon example is used to demonstrate how scholars might think through the contingency and complicity of queerness with various dominant formations. The author suggests that in the case of the LDS archive, queerness emerges not as a subjectivity, community, or form of nonnormativity per se but rather as a contextually specific assemblage.
