Author

Publication

2011 - Ashgate Pub., Farnham, Surrey, England

Language

English

Word Count

60,250 words, Guess

Page Count

241 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC305.6/97091821
  • LCCBP52 .G56 2011

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Global connections

Other Editions

  • Global Islamophobia: Muslims and moral panic in the WestAshgate Pub.2011-01-01

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