The existing Islamophobia 1 literature has come to illustrate how the Muslim subject “can at a moment’s notice be erected as [an] object of supervision and discipline” (Morey Yaqin 2011: 5–6). In popular imagination, Muslimhood 2 stand for an undifferentiated culturally alien oriental defined through prism racialized violence irrationality. Although much anti-Islamophobia efforts – academic com...

From the latter part of the last century to the present context, the world has witnessed the powerful tool of the global media; it has been one of the major sources that questioned and defined cultures, social and political movements and has enabled the world to break through the barriers of differences. Nonetheless, although mass media has particularly played a significant role in the shaping ...

Against the backdrop of the War on Terror, the British government has introduced a strict counter-terrorism regime that has disproportionately targeted Muslim communities through on-going practices of racialization and surveillance. This paper examines the ways in which grassroots organizations have developed responses and strategies to resist counter-terrorism policy and state Islamophobia in ...

Islamophobia is on the rise in many Western countries, and while previous research has considered causes of impact it its victims, little investigated attitudes experiences Muslims who are working to counter Islamophobia, particularly those Muslim women. This investigates motivations intentions Australian women run public engagement events for non-Muslims build social cohesion. Data were obtain...

The relationship between Islam and Portugal is intimately tied to processes of national formation diverse in terms the key protagonists, historical periods, political conjunctures that it evokes – hence particularly suited for contextualised study Islamophobia. Drawing on a larger European study, specifically discourse analysis empirical research Portuguese context, this article examines, one h...