Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism in Australia

Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism in Australia
Author: Randa Abdel-Fattah
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 9781138894532

Islamophobia and racial Aaustralianisation -- Muslim religiosity, symbols, and spaces -- Multiculturalism and indigestible Muslims -- Lebanese Muslim: a Bourdieuian capital offence in Bayside -- Affective registers and emotional practices of Islamophobia -- When the other otherizes -- Attention to inattention

Islamophobia in Australia Report - 2 (2016-2017)

Islamophobia in Australia Report - 2 (2016-2017)
Author: Charles Sturt University
Publisher:
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: Islamophobia
ISBN: 9780648065111

The Islamophobia Register provides a platform for people from across Australia to report any form of anti-Muslim abuse, so that incidents of Islamophobia can be analysed to help inform community awareness and prevention. This report analyses incidents from the two-year period of 2016-2017, including verbal and physical anti-Muslim abuse and denigration of Muslim identity, and compares findings from the previous report. The findings show how Islamophobia operates in Australia and highlights the gendered nature of this issue, with women predominantly the victims (72%) and perpetrators largely men (71%). Women and girls are a vulnerable group: 96% were wearing a headscarf, 57% were unaccompanied and 11% were with their children at the time of the incident. Another concern, 60% of incidents occurred in guarded or patrolled public areas such as shopping centres. Though 41% of non-online incidents were reported by witnesses rather than victims, most bystanders did not intervene.

Everyday Multiculturalism

Everyday Multiculturalism
Author: A. Wise
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-07-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230244475

This book explores everyday lived experiences of multiculturalism in the contemporary world. Drawing on place-based case studies, contributions focus on encounters and interactions across cultural difference in super-diverse cities to explore what it means to inhabit multiculturalism in our everyday lives.

Islamophobia and Radicalization

Islamophobia and Radicalization
Author: John L. Esposito
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2018-10-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319952374

While the themes of radicalization and Islamophobia have been broadly addressed by academia, to date there has been little investigation of the crosspollination between the two. Is Islamophobia a significant catalyst or influence on radicalization and recruitment? How do radicalization and Islamophobia interact, operate, feed one another, and ultimately pull societies toward polar extremes in domestic and foreign policy? The wide-ranging and global contributions collected here explore these questions through perspectives grounded in sociology, political theory, psychology, and religion. The volume provides an urgently needed and timely examination of the root causes of both radicalization and Islamophobia; the cultural construction and consumption of radical and Islamophobic discourses; the local and global contexts that fertilize these extreme stances; and, finally, the everyday Muslim in the shadow of these opposing but equally vociferous forces.

Islamophobia in Australia

Islamophobia in Australia
Author: Alice Aslan
Publisher: Alice Aslan
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 0646521829

Islamophobia is a contemporary form of cultural racism against Muslims. It has emerged in Australia as an outcome of general public opposition to multiculturalism and migration as well as in response to international conflicts involving Muslims. ISLAMOPHOBIA IN AUSTRALIA is a timely book that traces the rise of racism against Muslims through an extensive analysis of critical events and issues including the Gulf War, the September 11 terror attacks, the Bali bombings, ethnic crime, ethnic gang rapes, Middle Eastern asylum seekers, the Cronulla riots and the negative portrayals of Muslims and Muslim women in the Australian media and public discourse. Since tolerance does not offer minorities social acceptance or equality in contemporary multicultural societies, this book suggests that the recognition of Muslims and minorities as "real Australians" and as "one of us" and giving them "a fair go" are the key ingredients of a more democratic, equal and truly multicultural Australia in the 21st century.

Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Societies

Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Societies
Author: Enes Bayraklı
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0429876874

In the last decade, Islamophobia in Western societies, where Muslims constitute the minority, has been studied extensively. However, Islamophobia is not restricted to the geography of the West, but rather constitutes a global phenomenon. It affects Muslim societies just as much, due to various historical, economic, political, cultural and social reasons. Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Societies constitutes a first attempt to open a debate about the understudied phenomenon of Islamophobia in Muslim majority societies. An interdisciplinary study, it focuses on socio-political and historical aspects of Islamophobia in Muslim majority societies. This volume will appeal to students, scholars and general readers who are interested in Racism Studies, Islamophobia Studies, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Islam and Politics.

Global Islamophobia

Global Islamophobia
Author: George Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317127714

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.

Fear of Muslims?

Fear of Muslims?
Author: Douglas Pratt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-05-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319296981

This book takes a sober, evidenced-based look at the contemporary phenomenon of Islamophobia in both ‘old-world’ Europe, and the ‘new-world’ of America and Australia, and Southeast Asia. It includes theoretical and conceptual discussions about what Islamophobia is, how it manifests, and how it can be addressed, together with historical analysis, applied research and case-study chapters, considering the reality that manifests as a fear of Muslims. Anxiety about the world’s second largest religion manifests as prejudice, discrimination and vilification and, in extreme cases, violence and murder. The real and perceived problems of the relationship between Islam and the West contribute to the phenomenon of Islamophobia. This is a unique, multi-disciplinary work, with authors approaching the topic from a number of academic disciplines and from different religious and national backgrounds, providing for a greater appreciation of the complexity and diversity of Islamophobia. This multicultural and multi-religious approach undergirds the valuable insights the volume provides. This book will be of interest to all concerned with the phenomenon of Islamophobia, and especially researchers and students in the social sciences, as well as scholars with a specific interest in Muslims living as minorities in the West. Also, those working in political science, international relations, sociology, religious studies and other fields will all find it of value.

Muslim Women and Agency

Muslim Women and Agency
Author: Ghena Krayem
Publisher: Muslim Minorities
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789004400573

This book is an excavation of current and historic challenges faced by Australian Muslim women in their pursuit of agency, alongside solutions. These accounts of, and suggestions for, enhanced agency come from the Muslim women themselves.

A Comparative Study of Islamic Finance in Australia and the UK

A Comparative Study of Islamic Finance in Australia and the UK
Author: Imran Lum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000450139

This book provides valuable insights into the practical challenges faced by the nascent Islamic finance industry and compares the Australian experience to developments in the UK. It contributes to a greater understanding of how Muslims living as a minority in Australia and the UK negotiate Islamic doctrine in secular societies by focusing on one aspect of this negotiation, namely the prohibition of ribā. There is little debate in the Islamic tradition on the prohibition of ribā. The differences, however, lie in the interpretation of ribā and the question of how Muslims live in a society that is heavily reliant on interest and conventional banking, yet at the same time adhere to Islamic guidelines. Through the words of religious leaders, Muslim professionals and university students, Imran Lum provides real accounts of how Muslims in Australia and the UK practically deal with conventional banking and finance products such as home loans, savings accounts and credit cards. He also explores Muslim attitudes towards Islamic finance and queries whether religion is the sole determining factor when it comes to its uptake. Drawing on his own unique experience as a practitioner responsible for growing an Islamic business in a conventional bank, Lum provides a firsthand account of the complexities associated with structuring Islamic finance products that are not only sharia compliant but also competitive in a non-Muslim jurisdiction. Using ṣukūk bonds as a case study, he highlights the tangible and non-tangible barriers to product development, such as tax and regulatory requirements and the rise of Islamophobia. Combining academic and industry experience, Lum unpacks the relationship of Islamic finance with Muslim identity construction in the West and how certain modalities of religiosity can lead to an uptake of Islamic finance, while others can lead to its rejection.