Performance as Embodied Narratives in Young Italian Muslim Women

Abstract

This paper presents a theoretical framework, which conceptualizes Muslims women everyday life with particular reference to the body and the intimate sphere. The paper has two main objectives. The first, more relevant, is to clarify the concept of performance, which is described as a narrative form that primarily calls into question the body and which appears as a mimetic rather than conceptual reflexivity (Lash, 1993). The second objective, of methodological nature, implies the presentation of a tool for analyzing the documental material collected during the research and its potential in interpreting the women narratives. Our general aim is to question the concept of representation of the experience and to understand how the actors “perform” their social experience.

Pompili G., Fassari L. G. (2019) "Performance as Embodied Narratives in Young Italian Muslim Women " Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 11(2), 109-125. DOI: 10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2019-2-6  
Year of Publication
2019
Journal
Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
Volume
11
Issue Number
2
Start Page
109
Last Page
125
Date Published
07/2019
ISSN Number
2035-4983
Serial Article Number
6
DOI
10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2019-2-6
Issue
Section
Special Section