Global Islamophobia
Subtitle: Muslims and moral panic in the West
By: [edited] by George Morgan and Scott Poynting
Series: Global connections
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781409431190; 9781409431206
Subjects: Moral panics; Muslims; Islamophobia; Islam
Description: In 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, revitalized for the era of globalization. Exploring various sites of conflict, this book 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. The essays examine 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The transnational folk devil / George Morgan and Scott Poynting; title: A school for scandal: Rütli High School and the German press / Bruce Cohen and Catharina Muhamad-Brandner; title: A panicky debate: the state of Moroccan youth in the Netherlands / Francis Pakes; title: Italian intellectuals and the rise of Islamophobia after 9/11 / Bruno Cousin and Tommaso Vitale; title: Women and migrants in Swedish xenophobic populist parties / Diana Mulinari and Anders Neergaard; title: The social construction of Iraqi folk devils: post-9/11 framing by the G.W. Bush administration and US news media /Scott Bonn; title: Global cities and global fears: the Camden Islamic school campaign / Ryan Al Natour and George Morgan; title: Perverse Muslim masculinities in contemporary orientalist discourse: the vagaries of Muslim immigration in the West / Selda Dagistanli and Kiran Grewal; title: 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; title: Moral panic and media representation: the Bradford riots / Joanne Massey and Rajinder Singh Tatla; title: Moral panics, globalization and Islamophobia: the case of Abu Hamza in the Sun / Anneke Meyer; title: Criminalising dissent in the "War on Terror": the British state's reaction to the Gaza protests of 2008-09 / Joanna Gilmore; title: Where is the moral in panic? Islam, evil and moral order / Greg Noble.