Nisha Kapoor (University of York) If Islamophobia has long marked Europe’s history, its contemporary expression serves a particular crisis of the [...]
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Islamophobia and the Struggle for Recognition
Tariq Modood (University of Bristol) It was not very long ago that Anglophone scholars of racism understood racism in terms of [...]
Read moreFrom Anti-Semitism to Islamophobia: The European Far Right’s Strategic Shift
Farid Hafez (University of Salzburg) Only few politicians welcomed the success of Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud after the last elections in [...]
Read moreThe limits of analogy? Comparing Islamophobia and Antisemitism
Brian Klug (University of Oxford) A number of commentators have suggested that Islamophobia is ‘the new antisemitism’, as if they were [...]
Read moreKeep Calm: Not a Terrorist
Elisabeth Becker Topkara (Yale University) “Keep calm: not a terrorist.” “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.” “#Neveragain.”These [...]
Read moreProtest, Movement Networks and Everyday Life: The back-story of political action
Luke Yates (University of Manchester) In popular commentary, protests appear unexpected and social movements unpredictable. They are ‘triggered’ by events, [...]
Read moreMind the Gap Year
Helene Snee (Manchester Metropolitan University) Prince Harry announced in March 2015 that he would be taking a ‘gap year’ on leaving [...]
Read moreIs honesty always the best policy for parents of donor-conceived children?
Petra Nordqvist (University of Manchester) We tell our children it’s wrong to lie but, not so long ago, parents starting [...]
Read moreHow white working-class boys engage with the rhetoric of social mobility
Garth Stahl (University of South Australia) In the United Kingdom, it is widely documented both in academic circles and in the [...]
Read moreHow to think like a neoliberal
Kean Birch (York University, Canada) Most years I teach a course on neoliberalism. I end the first class with a game [...]
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