Islamophobia Studies Journal

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• Islamophobia Studies Journal
• The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North
• White Supremacist Mythologies in Canadian Educational Curricula: How Islamophobia Manifests and is Perpetuated in Canadian Schools
• Editorial Introduction
• Racial Secularism as Settler Colonial Sovereignty in Quebec 1
• Memorializing Aqsa Parvez: Public Feelings and Secular Multiculturalism
• Canadian Muslim Youth and the Complex Dynamics of State-Driven “Radicalization” Narratives
• Table of Contents
• Resisting Islamophobia through Digital Artifacts of Mourning
• Islamophobia Studies Journal

Featured documents

• Gendered Islamophobia in the Case of the Returning ISIS Women: A Canadian Narrative

  In February 2019, the case of Shamima Begum, hit the headlines. Begum, one of the three East London girls who had left the UK for Syria in 2015, was located in a refugee camp in Syria. Tagged as an “ISIS bride,” Begum's case raised the profile of Muslim women who had voluntarily left their home...

• A Measure of Islamophobia

  The growing literature on Islamophobia is dominated by empirical studies, the analysis of media representations and socio-psychological approaches, while many of these studies have been valuable in illustrating the range of expressions of Islamophobia; they have been less successful in...

• Resisting Islamophobia through Digital Artifacts of Mourning
• The Political Economy of Hate Industry: Islamophobia in the Western Public Sphere

  Minority communities across the globe are increasingly being targeted for vilification and demonization which consequently result in their marginalization and persecution, among other forms of physical, psychological, structural and cultural violence. These may be on account of race, religion,...

• The Islamophobia Index: Exploring the Challenges in Establishing Reliability for a Content Analysis Instrument Evaluating Islamophobia in Media Texts

  In a wide variety of studies over the past two decades, the media has consistently been identified as a significant social institution implicated in normalizing and disseminating anti-Muslim prejudice. Identifying and combating Islamophobic discourses has been a challenging proposition, however,...

• A Chronicle of A Disappearance: Mapping the Figure of the Muslim in Berlin's Verfassungsschutz Reports (2002–2009)
• The Perception of Indonesian Youths toward Islamophobia: An Exploratory Study

  Islamophobia has been on the rise in the twenty-first century. Muslims from all over the world has been subjected to prejudice, hatred and fear based simply on their perceived religious affiliation. This is the new reality facing Muslims especially those living in the West. Scholars have debated...

• L'Exception Francaise: From Irrational Fear of Muslims to their Social Death Sentence
• Schools of Thought in Islamophobia Studies: Prejudice, Racism, and Decoloniality

  Anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia are not just phenomena—they have increasingly become the focus of a new field of research: Islamophobia studies. Frequent national and international conferences and publications in this area bear witness to this. This article discusses the different prominent...

• Disciplining the ‘Muslim Subject’: The Role of Security Agencies in Establishing Islamic Theology within the State's Academia

  The following article discusses the establishment of centers of Islamic Studies (Islamische Theologie) in Germany. While many authors have discussed different theories which shape the accommodation of Islam in Western European nation states, I suggest that the security dispositif (Foucault) has a...