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Title
Islamophobia in Britain : the making of a muslim enemy / Leonie B. Jackson.
ISBN
9783319583501 (electronic book)
3319583506 (electronic book)
3319583492
9783319583495
Publication Details
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 197 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-58350-1 doi
Call Number
DA125.M87
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.6/97/0941
Summary
This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes. Since 2001, Muslims in Britain have been constructed as the nation's significant 'other' - an internal and external enemy that threatened both social cohesion and national security. Through a consideration of a number of pertinent contemporary issues, including no-mosque campaigns, the rise of anti-Islamist social movements and the problematisation of Muslim culture, this book offers a new understanding of Islamophobia as a form of Eurocentric spatial dominance, in which those identified as Western receive a better social, economic and political 'racial contract', and seek to defend these privileges against real and imagined Muslim demands.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version: 9783319583495
Chapter 1: Introduction: Islamophobia and Racism
Chapter 2: Good and Bad Muslims in Britain: Community Cohesion and Counterterrorism Discourse
Chapter 3: - Islamophobia at the Local Level: The Case of Dudley Mosque
Chapter 4: Denials of Racism and the English Defence League
Chapter 5: Islamophobia and National Identity in Europe
Chapter 6: Eurocentric Islamophobia
Chapter 7: Conclusions: The Waste of Islamophobia.
