Social Geography II: Islamophobia, transphobia, and sizism

Hopkins, Peter

doi:10.1177/0309132519833472

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“…Göle N. 2011;Modood, 1997;Scott, 2007). In geography, the term began to be used in the late 2000s (Hopkins, 2019). Previously, the research on Muslim communities in social and cultural geography focused on Muslim identities and urban exclusion in Muslimminority countries (Dwyer, 1999;Falah & Nagel, 2005;Hopkins, 2007;Hopkins & Gale, 2009;Koefoed & Simonsen, 2010;Kwan, 2008;Mansson McGinty, 2012;Naylor & Ryan, 2002;Peach, 2006;Peach & Gale, 2005;Phillips, 2006).…”

Section: The State Of Islamophobia In Predominantly Non-muslim Countriesmentioning

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Geographies of Islamophobia

Najib

Hopkins

2019

Social & Cultural Geography

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Islamophobia often refers to systemic racism against Muslims and the lived experiences of discrimination against people who are perceived as Muslim. These forms of racism and discrimination have intensified in the last couple of decades, especially since the War on Terror. This introduction argues that Islamophobia is a spatialized process that occurs at different scales in Muslim-minority countries: globe, nation, urban, neighbourhood, body and emotion. First, we outline a genealogy of the term, Islamophobia. Second, we demonstrate the ways in which Islamophobia occurs at different scales and is connected between scales. Finally, we introduce the papers in the special issue to highlight our argument that Islamophobia is multi-scalar. We also show how the methodological contributions of the research within geographies of Islamophobia can impact policy-making and political organizing against Islamophobia.

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Section: The State Of Islamophobia In Predominantly Non-muslim Countriesmentioning

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Geographies of Islamophobia

Najib

Hopkins

2019

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…While "othering" discourses and exclusionary practices targeting Muslims are not new in the United States (Bayoumi, 2015;Beydoun, 2018;Cainkar, 2006;Ewing, 2008;Semati, 2010), the alarmist and conspiratorial narratives analyzed in this paper advance knowledge of how anti-Muslim sentiment is currently being used to vilify legal immigrants and to foment opposition to the resettlement process in places not historically associated with immigration or refugee resettlement. Our paper thus responds to calls for careful and nuanced analyses of Islamophobias, and specifically the geographies of Islamophobia (Garner and Selod, 2015;Hopkins, 2019;McGinty, 2020). We build on research exploring the overlap between Islamophobia and anti-immigrant and anti-refugee sentiment, and examine how such rhetoric is deployed in regionally and locally specific contexts (Fritzsche and Nelson, 2019;Nagel, 2016).…”

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“…By examining the work of specific actors and organizations and their attempts to disseminate anti-Muslim and anti-refugee discourses in a specific place, we respond to calls for specificity in analyses of Islamophobia (Hopkins, 2019). Islamophobia is not a uniform oppressive power; it does not affect all people in similar ways.…”

Section: Geographies Of Islamophobia and Refugee Resettlement Oppositionmentioning

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Invasion and colonization: Islamophobia and anti-refugee sentiment in West Virginia

Gorman

Culcasi

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Amidst a rise in hate crimes, hate group organizing, and anti-Muslim and anti-refugee policy making in the United States, this paper examines efforts by a national hate group to organize opposition to the resettlement of Syrian Muslim refugees in West Virginia, a non-traditional refugee destination. Through analysis of materials disseminated at a public seminar titled the “Invasion and Colonization of West Virginia,” we identify four unique social-spatial themes this group is using to make alarmist and conspiratorial claims about Muslim refugees invading and colonizing the state and nation. These themes include the language of smallness, which affixes a white and Christian identity to certain spaces and suggests that these spaces are threatened. Spatial themes of ‘fresh territory’ and ‘sowing seeds’ are used to frame refugee resettlement as an assertion of social-spatial control to change ‘small spaces’ and ultimately change America. Claims of invasion and colonization function powerfully through the fourth theme of the “Other Islamic Bomb,” which frames Muslim women’s fertility as the vehicle of the invasion and colonization. This paper adds to emerging literature on the geographies of Islamophobia by examining not only the convergence of anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiment but its mobilization in regionally and locally specific contexts. The analysis demonstrates the dynamic interplay between spatial and social claims on which these alarmist narratives rely to vilify Muslims and refugees and to foment opposition in places not historically associated with immigration or refugee resettlement.

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“…Research on gentrification (Clerval, 2016), gated communities (Charmes, 2004;Le Goix, 2006), upper classes and elitism (Pinc¸on and Pinc¸on-Charlot, 2014) or deprived and troubled urban areas (Chignier-Riboulon, 2010; Wacquant, 1993) are primarily based on the Parisian region. Also, research on territorial and religious discrimination such as Islamophobia (Hancock, 2015(Hancock, , 2017Najib, 2019, Najib andHopkins, 2020) primarily focuses on Paris.…”

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Spaces of Islamophobia and spaces of inequality in Greater Paris

Najib

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This paper draws upon quantitative data collected from one of the principal associations fighting Islamophobia in France along with the population census, and provides a step forward in understanding the operation and distribution of Islamophobia. It presents a geography of Islamophobia in Paris based on statistical data, and aims to observe whether or not this geography corresponds or contrasts with geographies of inequality (such as those associated with gentrification, deprivation and marginalisation), by analysing the various spatial patterns stemming from the maps. This socio-spatial analysis of anti-Muslim discrimination is important in Paris because since the terrorist attacks in 2015, anti-Muslim sentiment has increased sharply. The mapping of Islamophobia and its association with the spatial distribution of different socioeconomic and demographic variables synthetized in a typological map display significant forms, relations and diversities within Paris. This cartographic analysis demonstrates that the geography of Islamophobia does not necessarily refer to spaces where ‘Muslims’ and the victims of Islamophobia live in great majority, and rather refers to more privileged and central areas such as Paris intra-muros. Victims mostly experience anti-Muslim incidents outside their everyday spaces away from their homes, such as public institutions and workplaces. Indeed, the findings raise the significance of the exact place where incidents occur as well as societal attitudes to these ‘hierarchical’ places where the perpetrator probably feels more comfortable in behaving in an antisocial and sometimes violent way.

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Social Geography II: Islamophobia, transphobia, and sizism

Cited by 22 publications

References 86 publications

Geographies of Islamophobia

Geographies of Islamophobia

Invasion and colonization: Islamophobia and anti-refugee sentiment in West Virginia

Spaces of Islamophobia and spaces of inequality in Greater Paris

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