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Beyond Victimhood : German Muslims and the Minority Question after the Holocaust
Author(s): Doughan, Sultan; Brusius, Mirjam Sarah
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Islam, Immigration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Minorities, National Identity, Attitudes to Jews
Abstract: In her research, Sultan Doughan shows how the memory of the Holocaust is mobilized in tolerance education and extremism prevention as a means of integrating Muslims into German society. Yet while the German government invests in memorials and museums that commemorate the Holocaust, Doughan argues, it also extricates itself from current forms of violence. Holocaust commemoration as a European project is part of a triumphalist narrative that presents Vergangenheitsbewältigung as a successful transition to liberal democracy—a reality that minoritizes and racializes Middle Easterners as Muslims. In this interview with historian Mirjam Sarah Brusius, anthropologist Sultan Doughan examines how Middle Easterners in Germany relate to the figure of the Jew. Muslims and Jews operate in this governed structure as opposing figures who must be religious and historical enemies. While both have clearly assigned roles in German public discourse, Doughan approaches their historical and contemporary positionalities beyond clear-cut concepts of Opferkonkurrenz, and thus rethinks this discourse and points to past and future alliances.
Minor Citizens? Holocaust Memory and the Un/Making of Citizenship in Germany
Author(s): Doughan, Sultan
Date: 2022
Topics: Immigration, Citizenship, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Desiring Memorials: Jews, Muslims, and the Human of Citizenship
Author(s): Doughan, Sultan
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Islamophobia, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Education, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Citizenship, Secularity, Minorities
Abstract: Germany is hailed as a successful model of facing difficult pasts. Based on ethnographic research in civic education, this article situates Holocaust commemoration within German secularism. It brings together memory, Palestine and African-American studies to articulate how Holocaust memory manages an enduring crisis of citizenship. This crisis is predicated upon the disparity between the ideal of freedom and the reality of ethno-religious difference. The article demonstrates how Holocaust memory has been institutionally folded into secular time leading to a more liberal nation-state. It further explores memorial sites as extensions of secular governance, but also spaces in which embodied forms of memory, such as the Palestinian experience of catastrophe enter and desire an extension of this humanity. This notion of humanity co-produces the figure of the “anti-human.” This figure is enabled by an older strand of antisemitism and has an “afterlife” in the real or imagined body of the “Palestinian-Muslim troublemaker.”
Säkularismus als Praxis und Herrschaft: Zur Kategorisierung von Juden und Muslimen im Kontext säkularer Wissensproduktion
Translated Title: Secularism as Practice and Rule: On the Categorization of Jews and Muslims in the Context of Secular Knowledge Production
Author(s): Doughan, Sultan; Tzuberi, Hannah
Editor(s): Amir-Moazami, Schirin
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Secularity, Attitudes to Jews