{"id":521,"date":"2019-12-11T19:13:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/?p=521"},"modified":"2020-01-13T15:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:49:03","slug":"performing-ashura-in-piraeus-towards-a-shiite-poetics-of-cultural-intimacy-with-greek-embodied-practices-of-religiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Performing Ashura in Piraeus: Towards a Shiite poetics of \u2018cultural intimacy\u2019 with Greek embodied practices of religiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The research examines the ritual of Ashura, as it is performed by the\nPakistani Shia community in Piraeus. Ashura is the day of mourning for the\nmartyrdom of Imam Husayn: the Prophet\u2019s grandson and 3rd Imam who led a revolt\nagainst the Omayyad caliph Yazid A, and was finally beheaded in the battle of\nKarbala in 680 AD. This battle provides the central narrative around which Shia\nMuslims construct their political identity as migrants and their religious\nidentification as a minority vis-\u00e0-vis Sunni Muslims in Greece. Ashura is\ncommemorated every year through rituals of lamentation and public processions\nthat include, in some cases, self-flagellation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A decontextualized focus on the act of self-flagellation,\nover-accentuated by the mass media, reinforces local stereotypes of the Shia\ncommunity practices as \u2018incompatible\u2019 with Greek cultural values. Social\nrepresentations of the Shiite as \u2018barbaric Others\u2019 are frequently evoked in\npublic debate in order to support Islamophobic and racialised narratives of\nanti-cosmopolitanism. However, confronted with xenophobia and social\nestrangement, the Shiite systematically attempt to articulate\ncounter-narratives of \u2018cultural intimacy\u2019 (Herzfeld 2005) that stress the\nsimilarities between their ritual lament and various embodied performances of faith\nfrom the Greek cultural context, such as the Tinos pilgrimage (Dubisch 1996) or\nthe Anastenaria (Danforth 1989).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed research has a threefold\npurpose. First, it documents the community\u2019s political struggle to promote\ndiscursively and practically a multicultural vision of citizenship based on\nembodied and affective components of subjectivity. Second, it unravels the rich\nmeta-symbolic character the Ashura assumes in a migratory context, becoming an\nidiom or expressing and negotiating feelings of loss associated with migration\ntrajectories. Third, departing from the case of the Ashura, but also opening-up\nthe research focus through other examples of performances of lament, it\nexamines how the claim to cultural intimacy is re-articulated in contemporary\nartistic practices, focusing on the performing arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More informations: https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/omada-chatziprokopiou-tsibiridou\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The research examines the ritual of Ashura, as it is performed by the Pakistani Shia community in Piraeus. Ashura is the day of mourning for the martyrdom of Imam Husayn: the Prophet\u2019s grandson and 3rd Imam who led a revolt against the Omayyad caliph Yazid A, and was finally beheaded in the battle of Karbala … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}