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Frames and Framing: A Dynamic Tension Between Muslim Activists’ Radical Habitus and Tempered Radicalism in the UK (109280)
Session Chair: Stefanie Pukallus
Wednesday, 17 June 2026 11:25
Session: Session 1
Room: Room 114 (1F)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
Integral to activism and embedded within relations of power, activism frames and framing processes shape how activists approach change and mobilize resources and capitals to achieve political goals. How do Muslim women activists then frame their activism in the UK? This presentation discusses framing as a lived, contested process that those activists employ to construct meaning at the intersection of their gender, faith, professional role and citizenship. It investigates the interactive and contested negotiation between activists’ radical habitus- a sustained disposition towards activism- and the strategic tempering of their radicalism to accommodate for internal and external factors that shape the framing process. Drawing on 32 interviews with activists carried out in 2024-5, it discusses activists’ frames association across EDI, intersectional feminism, black feminism, Islamic feminism, humanism and human rights. With these associations comes a strategic frame diversification: a necessary reflexive labour of covering multiple voices and mobilizing different capitals across audiences and sectors. Confronting the problem of reification, the analysis reveals persistent frame tensions that arise from fundamental clashes of between associated frames and those rejected, liberal feminist frames in particular, on the grounds of basis differences, historical legacies, and performative allyships. Finally, the presentation considers the movement across frames as a frame traverse: a negotiation that does not abandon core, faith-based commitments. By breaking down distinctions between formal/informal politics, this presentation argues that the intimate work of framing is not precursor to action but is itself constitutive of political praxis, reconfiguring the possibilities for collaboration and change.
Authors:
Alaa Khaled, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
About the Presenter(s)
Ms Alaa Khaled is a University Doctoral Student at Manchester Metropolitan University in United Kingdom
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