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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/between-pig-heads-and-racist-b
 anners-the-politics-of-mosque-construction-in-south-korea/
SUMMARY:Between Pig Heads and Racist Banners: The Politics of Mosque Constr
 uction in South Korea
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute\nAlthough Muslims constit
 ute only a small fraction of South Korea’s population\, Islamophobia has
  intensified markedly over the past decade. This rise parallels a shift in
  public discourse from a migration–development nexus toward increasingly
  exclusionary\, “(Korean) nationals first” narratives that conflate mi
 gration with national security threats. South Korea’s belated and precar
 ious multicultural discourse—premised on a hierarchical migration regime
 —has proved strikingly short-lived.\nThis talk examines the highly conte
 sted construction of the Daruleeman Mosque in Daegu\, a case that drew int
 ernational media and policy attention for the grotesque display of pigs’
  body parts at the construction site. Drawing on four years of ethnographi
 c action research (2021–present)\, I trace multi-scalar bordering practi
 ces enacted by anti-mosque resident protesters\, local authorities\, and f
 ar-right Protestant networks. Through this analysis\, I illuminate the dyn
 amics of social conflict surrounding migrant communities and the racial\, 
 cultural\, and religious fault lines of South Korean society.\n\nBy situat
 ing the Daruleeman controversy within the global circulation of Islamophob
 ic discourses\, the active mobilization of far-right Protestant groups\, a
 nd growing anti-immigrant nationalism\, this talk contributes to broadenin
 g the study of Islamophobia and racism beyond Western contexts and highlig
 hts how these transnational ideologies are locally rearticulated in South 
 Korea.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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