Islamophobia on Facebook: The Current “Migration Crisis” and the Songs of the Czech Singers Critical of Islam, Muslims and Refugees

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.leibniz-eega.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EEGA_Special-Issue_1_Islamophobia.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.leibniz-eega.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EEGA_Special-Issue_1_Islamophobia.pdf</a>

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Islamophobia on Facebook: The Current “Migration Crisis” and the Songs of the Czech Singers Critical of Islam, Muslims and Refugees

Original language description

The text is focused on the Czech singers singing songs critical of the “migration crisis”, by Islam or Muslim immigrants which appeared between 2015 and 2017, and further, on the related activities of these singers on Facebook. The major goal is to introduce texts of songs which became viral on Youtube (i.e. have reached from 8 to over 500 thousand viewers) and analyse how these singers imagine the contemporary “migration crisis” and related terms “Islam” and “Muslim immigration”. Theoretically, the article is framed by two concepts – the celebritization of politics, and post-truth politics. In conclusion, due to the analysis provided, one song was excluded from the group of songs critical of Islam since it was rather directed – though not sensitively – at the smallness of the Czech nation. The remaining four texts of the songs analysed here were identified with a critical attitude towards different aspects of the “migration crisis”, although these texts significantly varied, such as the one which mostly emphasized the image of huge crowds coming here, while the others stressed either the threat of future Islamification of our society or the necessity of mobilization at a European level or, finally, one song portraying an Arab from Syria as a dangerous woman chaser.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Transnational, Cross-Regional and Global CONNECTIONS. A Journal For Historians and Area Specialists

ISSN

2196-5323

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

65-71

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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