Islamophobia Studies Yearbook 2016 / Jahrbuch für Islamophobieforschung 2016 (eBook)

Contents/ Inhalt 5
Foreword 7
Vorwort 7
The Need for De-centering Anti-Islamophobia Critiques Proposing a Demarcation (Roxana Akhbari) 9
Section one – The Logic of Global Islamophobia in the Minds of White Supremacists: Three Critiques 9
Section Two – An Epistemic Analysis of Anti-Islamophobia Critiques 13
Section Three – Alternative Approaches in Islamophobia Studies: Noting Non-liberal Subjectivities 17
Bibliography 20
Caught Between Rebels and Armies: Competing Nationalisms and Anti-Muslim Violence in Sri Lanka (Merin Shobhana Xavier & Amarnath Amarasingam)
Introduction 22
What is Islamophobia? 23
Competing Nationalisms, Civil War, and Muslim Identity 25
Tamil Nationalism and the Muslim Community 31
Sinhala Nationalism and the Muslim Community Post-War 33
Conclusion 37
Bibliography 39
Re-coding nationalism: Islam, Muslims and Islamophobia in Norway before and after July 22 2011 (Sindre Bangstad) 44
Introduction 44
Re-coding nationalism and mainstreaming Islamophobia 46
Muslims and perceptions of Muslims in Norway 52
The Progress Party and anti-Muslim rhetoric 54
‘Islamization by stealth’ 56
The Rhetoric Intensifies: 2010 and 2011 57
The Progress Party in government, 2013–14. 59
Conclusion 61
References 62
The Imam of the Future On Racism and the German Islam Conference (Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar) 66
1. Introduction 66
2. Biopolitical integration, governmentality and native informants 68
3. Re-/forming Imams 73
4. Conclusion 81
Bibliography 82
Seeking the origins of Christian representation of Islam: anti-Muslim images in Romanesque art (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) (Ines Monteira Arias) 86
Anti-islamic texts from the Middle Ages 89
Anti-islamic discourse in Romanesque art: Propaganda scenes of war 90
Islam defeated 97
The demonization of Islam: Muslims animalized 103
Continuity in the Christian representation of Islam 107
Bibliography 109
Islamophobia Historical Narratives and the Making of Discourses (Saira bano Orakzai) 113
Introduction 113
Islamophobia As A Discourse 115
Islamophobia, Historical Narratives and Construction of Identities 117
Construction of Islamophobic Discourses by the Christians and Europe/West 118
Islamophobia and Islamist responses: Terrorism as an Ideology of fear. 125
Conclusion 128
‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident’. A postcolonial critique (Ozan Keskinkilic) 129
Anti-Muslim Racism and the Critique of Orientalism 131
The Oriental Antithesis 133
The Danger of the Islamization of the West 134
Good Other, Bad Other 136
The Figure of the Muslim as the Representation of the Other 138
References 140
Moscheen als schreckenerregende Bedrohung – Argumente und Erzählstrategien rechter und rechtspopulistischer Akteure in der Moscheedebatte in München (Nadja Ayoub und Christine Lohmeier) 142
Die Moscheedebatte in München 144
Methodisches Vorgehen 147
Argumentation der parteipolitischen Akteure 148
Politically Incorrect 154
Neue Topoi in der Debatte um das MFI 157
Sprache 158
Diskussion der Ergebnisse 159
Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der untersuchten Akteure 159
Fazit 161
Literaturverzeichnis 162
Abstracts 164
The Need for De-centering Anti-Islamophobia Critiques Proposing a Demarcation 164
Caught Between Rebels and Armies: Competing Nationalisms and Anti-Muslim Violence in Sri Lanka 164
Re-coding nationalism: Islam, Muslims and Islamophobia in Norway before and after July 22 2011 165
On Racism and the German Islam Conference1 166
Seeking the origins of Christian representation of Islam: anti- Muslim images in Romanesque art (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) 167
Islamophobia Historical Narratives and the Making of Discourses 167
Mosques as terrifying threats? – Arguments and narrative strategies of right-wing and populist parties in the context of the ‘mosque debate’ in Munich 168
Book Reviews/Buchbesprechungen 170
Authors/AutorInnen 177