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This book explores Islamophobia in Australia, shifting attention from its victims to its perpetrators by examining the nature of people's responses to the Muslim 'Other' in everyday life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it sheds light on the problematisations of Muslims amongst Anglo and non-Anglo Australians.
List of contents
Introduction: Crudely Islamifed Mannequin Man Acknowledgments 1. Islamophobia and Racial Australianisation 2. Muslim Religiosity, Symbols and Spaces 3. Multiculturalism and Indigestible Muslims 4. ‘Lebanese Muslim’: a Bourdieuian ‘Capital’ Offence in Bayside 5. Affective Registers and Emotional Practices of Islamophobia 6. When the Other Otherizes, Conclusions: Attention to Inattention, Appendix, Index
About the author
Randa Abdel-Fattah is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia. Her PhD was on Islamophobia, racism and everyday multiculturalism. She is an award-winning novelist and spends her time promoting human rights in relation to migration and multiculturalism through various media outlets, and is a regular speaker throughout Australia.
Summary
This book explores Islamophobia in Australia, shifting attention from its victims to its perpetrators by examining the nature of people’s responses to the Muslim ‘Other’ in everyday life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it sheds light on the problematisations of Muslims amongst Anglo and non-Anglo Australians.
