Overview
- Considers Islamophobia in the context of urban spatial identity politics
- Addresses not only how Islamophobia is articulated but also why individuals and groups view Islam as so threatening
- Argues that Islamophobia in the present period serves the purpose of maintaining Eurocentric dominance
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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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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Leonie B. Jackson is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islamophobia in Britain
Book Subtitle: The Making of a Muslim Enemy
Authors: Leonie B. Jackson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58350-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58349-5Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86384-9Published: 17 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58350-1Published: 15 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 197
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: British Politics, Politics and Religion