Rosa Lütge
Negotiations of the Self in Muslim Online Platforms
The project focuses on Muslim online platforms that create a space for exchange about lifestyle, empowerment and inspiration. The target group of these platforms are mostly young Muslims all over the world, but mainly in the USA and Europe and they refer to different issues such as parenthood, travel, beauty, fitness and self-care but also questions of Muslim communities, the religiosity of the individual, discrimination and marginalization. The aim of the research project is to examine the representations of the self and the intersectional negotiations of religion, emotions, gender but also subversions that emerge in Muslim online platforms. What discursive entanglements emerge? In what ways does resistance to hegemonic discourses and stereotypical portrayals take place? What is the effect of discourses surrounding, for example, the handling of emotions, and what role does religion play?
Research interests
- Social Inequality
- Gender Studies
- Discourses around Islam in Europe
- Qualitative research
Vita
- since 2019
research assistant, Insititute for the Studies of Religion and related Didactics, University of Bremen. - since 2016
freelancer in civic education (e.g. on anti-discrimination, right-wing extremism, hate speech). - 2015 – 2019
M.A. Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt. - 2015
European Voluntary Service, East and West Center, Amman. - 2010 – 2014
B.A. in Sociology and Arabistic/Studies of Islam, Georg August University, Göttingen.
Talks, Workshops, and Events
- 2018
Exhibition and foto project with Youths on Muslim self-representation You see something that is not me – Pictures of Oneself! at the University of Frankfurt.