By: George Morgan, Scott Poynting

Hardcover

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The decade since 9/11 has seen a decline in liberal tolerance in the West as Muslims have endured increasing levels of repression. This book presents a series of case studies from Western Europe, Australia and North America demonstrating the transnational character of Islamophobia. The authors explore contemporary intercultural conflicts using the concept of moral panic, revitalised for the era of globalisation. Exploring various sites of conflict, "Global Islamophobia" considers the role played by 'moral entrepreneurs' in orchestrating popular xenophobia and in agitating for greater surveillance, policing and cultural regulation of those deemed a threat to the nation's security or imagined community. This timely collection examines the interpenetration of the global and the local in the West's cultural politics towards Islam, highlighting parallels in the responses of governments and in the worrying reversion to a politics of coercion and assimilation. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in race and ethnicity; citizenship and assimilation; political communication, securitisation and The War on Terror; and moral panics.

Foreword, Michael Welch; Introduction: the transnational folk devil, George Morgan and Scott Poynting; A school for scandal: Rutli high school and the German press, Bruce Cohen and Catharina Muhamad-Brandner; A panicky debate: the state of Moroccan youth in The Netherlands, Francis Pakes; Italian intellectuals and the rise of Islamophobia after 9/11, Bruno Cousin and Tommaso Vitale; Women and migrants in Swedish xenophobic populist parties, Diana Mulinari and Anders Neergaard; The social construction of Iraqi folk devils: post-9/11 framing by the G.W. Bush administration and US news media, Scott Bonn; Global cities and glocal fears: the Camden Islamic school campaign, Ryan Al Natour and George Morgan; Perverse Muslim masculinities in contemporary discourse: the vagaries of Muslim immigration in the West, Selda Dagistanli and Kiran Grewal; Generating a local moral panic in western Sydney: pitfalls, limits and lessons from a 'failed political attempt' to use global Islamophobia, Kevin M. Dunn and Alanna Kamp; Moral panic and media representation: the Bradford riots, Joanne Massey and Rajinder Singh Tatla; Moral panics, globalization and Islamophobia: the case of Abu Hamza in The Sun, Anneke Meyer; Criminalising dissent in the 'war on terror': the British state's reaction to the Gaza protests of 2008-9, Joanna Gilmore; Where is the moral in panic? Islam, evil and moral order, Greg Noble; Index.

ISBN: 9781409431190
ISBN-10: 1409431193
Series: Global Connections
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 15th May 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 2.4
Weight (kg): 0.607