‘Culture’ as a discursive resource in newspaper articles from Le Monde about secularism : constructing ‘us’ through strategic oppositions with religion
Sommier, M. (2017). ‘Culture’ as a discursive resource in newspaper articles from Le Monde about secularism : constructing ‘us’ through strategic oppositions with religion. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 13(3), 283-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2018.1437161
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Journal of Multicultural DiscoursesTekijät
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Building on research highlighting the complex webs of relations
between secularism, culture, and religion, this study investigates
how the concept of culture was utilized in discourses of laïcité
from the newspaper le Monde. Articles (N = 76) published between
2011 and 2014 were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.
Results revealed the agency associated with the use of culture
as it was strategically – rather than systematically – used in
opposition to religion. Overall, culture – and the practices it
defined – tended to be represented as normal and invisible. On
the other hand, religion tended to be constructed as a disruption
to secularism and the corresponding cultural reality. The findings
therefore suggested culture could be strategically used to validate
and regulate specific practices as well as representations of the
imagined community. This study complements previous research
on discourses of secularism by drawing attention to the strategic
divisions between culture and religion, and their implications. The
findings draw attention to the construction of a secular imagined
community because of the punctual and strategic use of culture
and religion as proxies for ‘us’ and ‘them’. Thus, the findings have
practical implications as regards religious minorities’ identification
with and belonging to the nation.
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