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Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom

Egorova, Yulia

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Building upon ethnographic research conducted among participants in UK-based initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue, the paper contributes to anthropological literature on the essentialising nature of state-sponsored constructions of minoritised groups. More specifically, I put forward two sets of arguments. Firstly, I suggest a concept of simultaneity that challenges colonially inflected conceptualisations of the relationship between communities and their respective traditions. Activists of Jewish-Muslim inter-community work subvert dominant conceptualisations of intergroup commonalities and divergencies by developing a theorisation of Jewish-Muslim relations that acknowledges group similarities and differences as overlapping categories. Secondly, I contribute to John Jackson's (2005) theorisation of racial sincerity, a notion offering a conceptual challenge to the notion of authenticity. I argue that the complexity of my interlocutors’ thematisations of Jewish-Muslim relations underpinned by the diversity of the sources of knowledge that they rely on could be best understood as an example of this analytic. On a broader theoretical plane, the paper proposes a framework that underscores the agentive power of minority communities and pays close attention to the way they define their positionalities vis-à-vis the majorities and each other in ways that go beyond binaries-based theorisations.

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Egorova, Y. (2023). Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom. Anthropological Theory, 24(1), 67-87. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996231179520

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 21, 2023
Online Publication Date Aug 1, 2023
Publication Date Aug 1, 2023
Deposit Date Apr 26, 2023
Publicly Available Date Apr 26, 2023
Journal Anthropological Theory
Print ISSN 1463-4996
Electronic ISSN 1741-2641
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 67-87
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996231179520
Keywords dialogue, difference, Sincerity, Judaism, relations, inter-faith, Islam, essentialism
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1174053
Publisher URL https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ant

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