Viola Thimm Knihy

The book offers a comprehensive guide to researching intersectionality, emphasizing a narrative-driven and polyvocal approach within an antiracist-feminist framework. It provides students with practical methodologies for analyzing multiple identities, making complex concepts accessible and understandable. The clear and jargon-free style aims to equip readers with the tools necessary to engage deeply with intersectional research.

A study of how the intersection of gender and Islam develops and changes in a pilgrimage-tourism nexus as part of capitalist and halal consumer markets. Shopping with Allah illustrates the ways in which religion is mobilized in package tourism and how spiritual, economic, and gendered practices are combined in a form of tourism where the goal is not purely leisure but also ethical and spiritual cultivation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, Thimm sheds light on how Islam and gender frame Malaysian religious tourism and pilgrimage to the Arabian Peninsula and raises many issues that are of great importance beyond these regional contexts. This book also offers an innovative methodological-analytical toolkit to research mobility and intersectionality across sociogeographic scales. By bringing methodological holism into a fruitful engagement with the antiracist-feminist framework intersectionality, Thimm argues that hierarchical relationships, such as marginalization, power, and empowerment, can shift for an individual or a social group depending upon the social sphere.

Was motiviert Chinesisch-Malaysierinnen, sich nach Singapur für den höheren Bildungserwerb aufzumachen? Welche Strategien verfolgen sie durch Aneignung und Abgrenzung bestimmter geschlechtsspezifischer Ideale und Normen im transnationalen Raum? Viola Thimm behandelt Fragen nach geschlechtsspezifischen Bedeutungszuweisungen und sozialen Praxen hinsichtlich der Bildungsmigrationswege von Malaysia nach Singapur. Ihre ethnographische Studie fokussiert die Themen Bildung, Migration und Geschlecht sowie die lokal damit verbundenen Bereiche Ethnizität, Religion und Modernität mit der Sichtweise der Akteurinnen und erweitert damit die Fachdebatten um Migration und Geschlecht um das Thema der migrierenden intellektuellen Frauen.