Global Islamophobia

George Morgan is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, author of Unsettled Places: Aboriginal People and Urbanisation, and co-editor of Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia. Scott Poynting is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is co-author of Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other, and Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime, and co-editor of Contemporary State Terrorism: Theory and Practice, and Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia.

• Notes on Contributors, Foreword, Introduction: The Transnational Folk Devil, 1 A School for Scandal: Rütli High School and the German Press, 2 A Panicky Debate: The State of Moroccan Youth in the Netherlands, 3 Italian Intellectuals and the Promotion of Islamophobia after 9/11, 4 The Sweden Democrats, Racisms and the Construction of the Muslim Threat, 5 The Social Construction of Iraqi Folk Devils: Post-9/11 Framing by the G.W. Bush Administration and US News Media, 6 Local Islamophobia: The Islamic School Controversy in Camden, New South Wales, 7 Perverse Muslim Masculinities in Contemporary Orientalist Discourse: The Vagaries of Muslim Immigration in the West, 8 A Failed Political Attempt to Use Global Islamophobia in Western Sydney: The ‘Lindsay Lea??et Scandal’, 9 Moral Panic and Media Representation: The Bradford Riot, 10 Moral Panics, Globalization and Islamophobia: The Case of Abu Hamza in The Sun, 11 Criminalizing Dissent in the ‘War on Terror’: The British State’s Reaction to the Gaza War Protests of 2008-2009, 12 Where’s the Moral in Moral Panic? Islam, Evil and Moral Turbulence, Index

'Carefully articulating the continuing relevance of moral panics, the editors chart the rise of the transnational "Muslim" folk devil and the globalisation of Islamophobia. With a series of compellingly written, conceptually engaging, and grounded case studies, this book makes a significant contribution to contemporary understandings of Islamophobia, and the local, national and transnational factors (re)creating its unfortunate presence.' Peter Hopkins, Newcastle University, UK 'This lucid and penetrating study of Islamophobia presents fresh insights into the process of generating modern-day folk devils, causing fear and panic. Examining the demonization of Muslims in the West as an accumulative and global process, this book reveals serious flaws in the way liberal governments have responded to their Muslim citizens and, more fundamentally, to social and cultural diversity.' Shahram Akbarzadeh, The University of Melbourne, Australia 'Global Islamophobia is a robust book that examines and tackles the fear of Islam with great brio and optimism. It is a carefully balanced academic collaboration: simultaneously sympathetic, elegiac and open, whilst also argumentative and at points dispassionately critical. The breadth of vision and depth of research demonstrates an assuredly lucid grasp of the variegated societal problems and the all too human vicissitudes covered by the subject matter. ... The editors have produced a useful, germane and well-considered book, liberal in its approach and accurate in its working methodology.' Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations