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Reimagining Malaysia – a postliberal halal strategy?
No full textThis chapter examines the ongoing attempt to position Malaysia as a major player in the global halal market by inserting hegemonic claims into the transnational spaces where these markets operate. It traces the origins of postliberal halal strategy through the development of a hegemonic ethnocratic state regime that emerged after Malaya gained independence from Britain in 1957. The chapter explores the process through which Malaysia is operationalizing this strategy by inserting new hegemonic claims into transnational space. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the Malaysian state maintained hegemony through a distinctive brand of Islamic nationalism. From 2008 until 2010, Malaysia worked in partnership with the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to develop a global standard through the International Halal Integrity Alliance (IHIA). The OIC's Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) has also been working to develop halal standards for over three decades and for most of this period it was also against stunning
From an implicit to an explicit understanding; new definitions of Halal in Turkey
No full textThis chapter explores the rise of greater halal awareness in Turkey by examining agricultural modernization alongside the simultaneous rise of competing halal discourses at the national and global level. The underlying tensions revolving around halal are evident in relations between reformist groups linked to the modernizing Turkish state and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) backed by the electoral support of political Islam. The chapter argues that concerns over agricultural modernization and the spread of neoliberal technologies have been just as important as the rise of global halal discourses in facilitating greater halal awareness and it also argue that as the poultry meat sector has expanded and modernized, concerns over the spread of new technology and more visible forms of avian disease have contributed towards an increased awareness of the value of halal certification. The Ministry for Agriculture and Food is the central regulator of the meat industry in Turkey
Introduction: Studying the politics of global halal markets
No full textThis introduction chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book argues that answering the question how are modern halal markets constituted is increasingly important and complex in a globalized world. It explores issues such as the changing spaces of consumption, branding and the marketing of religious music as well as the consumption patterns of Muslim minority groups. The book looks at urban Muslims in China, where the Hui's halal food and eating habits stood out as the most important identity marker in contradistinction to the surrounding Han majority. In Turkey, the politics of identity among Islamists and secularists has been deeply influenced by a "market for identities", in the context of the globalization of the 1980s and 1990s. It explores halal from microsocial or everyday perspectives, but by taking into consideration the "bigger institutional picture" that frames the everyday consumption of halal products
Remembering the spirit of halal: an Iranian perspective
Full text linkThis chapter explores a qualitative dimension of halal as a way of life that is represented by the inseparable nature of the physical and the spiritual realms from a Shia point of view. The chapter draws on the organizational literature to examine the adoption of innovations in the Iranian poultry sector that facilitate an understanding of halal that stands in direct opposition to emergent notions of global halal and it also draws on Ong and Collier's notion of global assemblages to explore the technological, political and ethical practices underpinning Iran's immersion into the halal market. It looks at one farm in particular where managerial support was essential for innovation and the production of poultry products in line with the true spirit of halal as envisaged by Ali ibn Abi Talib. The chapter presents a case study of an innovative poultry farm in the north east of Iran
The postliberal politics of halal: new directions in the civilizing process?
No full textThis paper examines the emergence of postliberal halal politics in European societies. Building on research undertaken during the EU funded Dialrel project, it examines how the Malaysian state is inserting hegemonic claims into transnational space in order to dominate the international halal market. Moving beyond the idea of horizontally aligned networks of transnational power as the dominant framework for understanding social and economic change, the paper explores the complex interweaving of the large-scale macro processes and everyday micro practices underpinning the rise of Malaysia’s postliberal halal strategy. It is argued that the processes of social and economic differentiation emerging as a result of these processes have the potential to be an important step in the global civilizing process. In conclusion, the paper discusses the implication of these developments for figurational sociology
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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