Of Bodies and Burkinis: Institutional Islamophobia, Islamic Dress, and the Colonial Condition.
The 2016 burkini controversy and the criminalization of visibly Muslim women in France is a violent reminder of the precarity of colonial bodies in public space. These laws demonstrate the ongoing management of colonial bodies and communities which speaks over time from historical colonization to pr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Law & Society Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 55 - 83 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2019
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