Open AccessMiddle-Class Islamist Women’s Activism on Social Media:
Author(s) -
Alifatul Lusiana Uswatun Chasanah,
Mukhammad Zamzami
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jurnal komunikasi islam
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2655-5212
pISSN - 2088-6314
DOI - 10.15642/jki.2021.11.01.1-32
Subject(s) - ideology , caliphate , islam , argument (complex analysis) , power (physics) , state (computer science) , limiting , class (philosophy) , sociology , relation (database) , social media , political science , gender studies , epistemology , law , politics , computer science , philosophy , theology , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , database , engineering
This article critically discusses tweets content hashtag #Womenneedkhilafah which is mostly followed by Indonesia’s middle-class Muslimah. A qualitative method with Foucauldian discourse analysis is applied in this study to analyse tweets expressing Islamist women’s activism published on the hashtag #Womenneedkhilafah. The findings have revealed that the hashtag #womenneedkhilafah is constructed through the knowledge-power relations of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia’s Islamist ideology by a literal-textual theological argument which is oriented to propagate Islamism and to create an independent Islamic state or caliphate. The manifesttation of the power-knowledge relation is by limiting women’s role, mobility, and authority over their bodies. HTI has restricted women’s role to become household caretakers, particularly to educate their children to prepare a new and stronger generation of HTI.