British Muslim Women in the Cultural and Creative Industries

Qaisra Shahraz author Saskia Warren author Elinor Chohan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:26th Apr '22

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Muslim women are opening up new educational and career pathways across the UK, pioneering roles in digital media, fashion design and visual art. However, their contributions to the economy and culture are rarely the focus of media and government reports. Now, Saskia Warren draws on in-depth fieldwork with British Muslim women working in these roles, taking a narrative approach to look at how they frame their own everyday labour experiences. Drawing on interviews, focus groups, activity diaries, and online digital and visual analysis, Warren explores how Muslim womanhood is variously celebrated, contested, resisted and subverted. From negotiating family expectations to encountering prejudice from education providers and employers, and from founding businesses to finding ways to respect religion in their creative work, these personal insights bring the struggles and successes of British Muslim women creatives to life.

This detailed, substantive study will be of interest to academics in human geography, sociology and the arts, as well as to Muslim women in the cultural and creative industries, other leaders in these fields, administrators in schools of art, design, and communication, and political decision-makers at local and national levels. -- Mary B. Vogl * EuropeNow *
An urgent and original contribution to the work on inequalities in creative and cultural industries. -- Anamik Saha, University of Leeds * Cultural Geographies *
What is especially impressive is that Warren avoids simply registering problems and instead develops meticulous narratives and analyses of the resistance to Islamophobia and racism and strategies for inclusion or for the development of an acceptable niche by artists. -- Jonas Otterbeck * Religion, State and Society *
For anyone interested in British Muslim culture, marginalised women’s education and employment opportunities, and faith-led creativity, this book offers an in-depth investigation of this relatively underexplored field. -- Lezley George, Kingston University * Journal of Muslims in Europe *

ISBN: 9781474459310

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352 pages