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SUMMARY:Producing Islamic Reform: Media Practices and the Construction of 
 Religious Authority in Niger - Dr Abdoulaye Sounaye\, ZMO Berlin
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:The presentation will introduce how media production plays a m
 ajor role in the articulation of Islamic reform agenda in contemporary Nig
 er. It will focus on the Islamic discotheque and how young Muslims appropr
 iate this media infrastructure to convey a religious discourse and constru
 ct their authority. It will highlight the twin processes through which the
  Islamic discotheque contributes to the materiality of Islamic reform and 
 the emergence of youth as socio-religious shifters. The dynamism of the me
 dia culture that emerges within this context\, it will be shown\, rests on
  the connection young Muslims make between a moral economy that seeks to r
 eshape the moral horizon of the society\, and a market economy that  illus
 trates the economic dimensions of the reform enterprise. Thus\, more than 
 epiphenomena\, the forms of mediation that arise with the Islamic discothe
 que might have a structural effect on the religious field in general.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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