Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament

Cheng, Jennifer E

doi:10.1075/dapsac.72

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“…This suggests that the culture brought over by those migrants is at best on par with, but never better than the ‘traditional Chinese culture’. As Cheng (2017: 89) shows in her analysis of Australian parliamentary speeches, the host country may present its norms as superior and even ‘quasi-utopic’. This creates room for the interlocutor to pressure the Muslim migrants to adhere to the standards stipulated by the host majority, while avoiding suggestions that the host’s culture may in any way be inferior to that of the migrants.…”

Section: Government Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

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The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China

Lan

Navera

2021

Discourse & Society

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Adopting the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, this study investigates the ideology reflected by the anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China, the power dynamics revealed by such discourse and how social media discourse differs from and utilises the government discourse. Four ways to disguise the anti-Muslims, anti-Islam prejudice are investigated: appealing to patriotism to demand cultural assimilation; claiming to defend secularism; framing Islam as incompatible with mainstream culture; appealing to consumer rights to reject halal food. Non-Muslims and assimilated Muslims (especially the elites) are found to have the prerogative to dictate who belong to the ingroup, what dietary restrictions are legitimate and whom to blame when undesirable situations arise, while Muslim non-elites are at the receiving end of such dictates. This study also argues that social media discourse expresses antagonism of higher intensity than the government discourse does, and may misappropriate the official narratives to express the interlocutor’s hatred towards Muslims.

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Section: Government Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In studying Islamophobic discourse elsewhere, scholars like Cheng (2017) and Fozdar and Low (2015) point out that one recurring theme in such discourse is demanding Muslims to assimilate by adopting the 'local' values. A similar trend is also observed in Chinese government discourse.…”

Section: Assimilation and 'Hanification'mentioning

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The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China

Lan

Navera

2021

Discourse & Society

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“…In the last decade, religious intolerance to Muslims has increased from 21% to 25% (11% to 14% negative) in contrast to negative opinion towards Christians and Buddhists (ranging between 4% and 6%) (Markus 2018, p. 62). The fearsome Muslim image after 9/11 has been reinforced by media (OnePath Network 2018) and politicians (Akbarzadeh 2016;Cheng 2017). This hostile discourse has sharpened further with the far-right political parties and their increasing popularity on social media (Miller 2017;Hutchinson 2019;Poynting and Briskman 2018;Peucker and Smith 2019).…”

Section: Parental School Choices and Attitudes Of Australian Muslims In An Islamophobic Climatementioning

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Faith-Inspired Muslim Parents’ School Choices and Attitudes in the Cultural West and Australia

Iner

2021

Religions

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All parents want the best accessible, available and affordable school for their children. Yet, the literature highlights that school choice for middle-class parents in the cultural West is a deliberate decision and a reflection of their salient identities. For racialised middle-class Western parents, school choice is an instrumental investment to secure social upward mobility and minimise the harms of racism for their children. Research focusing on Western middle-class Muslim parents highlights that accommodation of Muslim identities and ethno-religious values is pivotal in parental school choice. This is expected due to the rise of Islamophobia in the cultural West since 9/11. The semi-structured interviews with faith-inspired middle-class Muslim parents in Australia bring a new dimension to the parental school choice literature. Regardless of carrying more or less similar concerns for their children in an Islamophobic climate, middle-class Muslim parents’ school choices vary based on their childhood schooling experiences in the Australian context, diverse parenting styles and mentalities and their children’s varying personalities demanding a particular type of school setting. This article demonstrates there is no one size fits all Muslim parent in terms of deciding which school is the best for their children in an Islamophobic climate.

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“…There is an existing body of overseas literature which has developed the use of critical discourse analysis of both public (Augoustinos & Every, 2010a,b) and media (Tannen et al 2015) text and talk. In the Australian context, Cheng (2017) uses this approach in her study of anti‐racist discourse on Muslims in the Australian parliament and Gelber and McNamara (2013) in their work on freedom of speech and racial vilification in Australia.…”

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Racist attitudes, out‐groups and the Australian experience

Forrest

Blair

Dunn

2020

Aust J Social Issues

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Australia today is a culturally diverse nation with people from over 190 different countries claiming 300 different ancestries. But despite an official commitment to diversity, contemporary Australian society continues to experience tensions between multicultural policies and a legacy of Anglo privilege and cultural dominance. To assess this, the Challenging Racism Project conducted a national survey, commissioned by the Special Broadcasting Service, to gauge the nature and extent of racist attitudes and experience of racism across Australia during July–August 2015 and November 2015. Results show that sociodemographic characteristics show little contemporary relationship to racist attitudes. Age, once associated with “old” racist attitudes, is no longer significant. On the other hand, Anglo privilege is empirically linked to racism through notions of social dominance. We conclude that it is to the media, and to public discourse generally, to which future research attention, using critical discourse analysis, should turn in efforts to make Australia a fairer, more tolerant, multicultural society.

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Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament

Cited by 16 publications

References 68 publications

The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China

The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China

Faith-Inspired Muslim Parents’ School Choices and Attitudes in the Cultural West and Australia

Racist attitudes, out‐groups and the Australian experience

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