Conceptualising Islamic “Radicalisation” in Europe through “Othering”: Lessons from the Conflict in Northern Ireland

This World and the “Other”: Muslim Identity and Politics on the Indo-Bangladesh Border

“…The term was first used in post-colonial studies inspired by Edward Said’s work on Orientalism (Said, 1978) to describe “a process by which the empire can define itself against those it colonizes, excludes and marginalizes” (Spivak, quoted in Ashcroft et al, 1998: 171). Historians, literary theorists and social scientists have continued to draw on the term “othering” to study identity and identification across the world, including East Asia (Kim, 2009; Zimmer, 2022), Southeast Asia (Jerryson, 2022), Europe (Petersoo, 2007; Esparz a, 2010; Alami, 2013; Montoya and Agustin 2013; Murray, 2014; Kello, 2018; McManus, 2020; Ferati-Sachsenmaier, 2022; Riedel, 2022; Velji, 2022), the Middle East (Juergensmeyer, 2022; Schneider, 2022), Africa (Ndlovu, 2022), North America (Kagedan, 2020; Moore, 2022), Australia (Udah & Singh, 2019) and cyberspace (Lumsden & Harmer 2019), as well as South Asia (Spivak, 1985; Tripathi, 2016; Sen, 2017; Dimitrova, 2022).…”