Cultures of Resistance Activism Forum is a project that aims to address the Western hostile use of language intended to restrict debate related to mainstream Islamist movements and currents. The project will explore more effective means to respond to hostile use of language - as well as explore how better to insist on extending public debate beyond its standard focus on ‘Islamist violence’ - by launching a ‘positive’ (non-defensive) discourse on Islamism. In partnership with a wide number of social activist and public campaign groups, we aim to advocate for a shift in language from the defensive to the positive; to learn how others, in different struggles, have achieved this transition; and by this means, and by gaining greater critical mass, to open space in which a discourse of rebuttal and ‘resistance’ can be developed through visual and other means to imposed narratives and stereotyping. The aim is the change the terms of debate and to move to a more directly challenging, but more widely accessible, advocacy of understanding of Islamist ideology.
Cultures of Resistance magazine will be published twice a year by Conflicts Forum.
Volume One | Issue One [PDF]
Jihad and Terrorism:
A War of Words - Moazzam Begg
Talking About The Conflict - Mark Perry
The Paradox of Islamist Dialogue - Alastair Crooke
Brixton, Berkley and Other Roads to Radicalisation - Massoud Shadjareh, Arzu Merali
A Note — April 2008 - Tom Clark
The Islamic ‘Other’ in Film - Sukant Chandan
The Language of Oppression - Dyab Abou Jahjah
All is War - Aki Nawaz
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"Cultures of Resistance," Conflicts Forum, July 12, 2008.
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