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Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order


Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order

Paperback by Renton, James (Edge Hill University, UK)

Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order

£39.99

ISBN:
9781032091716
Publication Date:
30 Jun 2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
152 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 28 May - 2 Jun 2024
Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order

Description

The War on Terror has established a new global order of political structures, legislation, and technologies designed to spy on the world's Muslims. This book explains the origins and trajectories of this political system. The contributors argue that a constellation of Western ideas about Muslims have evolved over time to produce an insatiable desire for all-pervasive, ever-expanding surveillance in our contemporary moment. The book posits that the surveillance order is not, however, only the result of conceptions of Muslims. It is, rather, the outcome of centuries of European thought regarding religion, governance, and revolution. Islamophobia and Surveillance traverses the existential desire for wakeful vigilance, the religious wars of early modern Europe, colonial India, the Balkan frontier of the EU, and the walls of the United States-Mexico border. The consequences of the new surveillance order transcend the West's Muslim Question and threaten the very existence of the liberal democratic state. This book will, therefore, be of interest to those studying a range of subjects related to international co-operation, modern political systems, and security studies, as well as Islamophobia. Islamophobia and Surveillance was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Contents

Introduction: The global order of Muslim surveillance and its thought architecture 1. Oversight 2. The figure of the fanatic: a rebel against Christian sovereignty 3. Good Jew, bad Jew...good Muslim, bad Muslim: "managing" Europe's others 4. The picture, the parable, the performance and the sword: secularism's demographic imperatives 5. Arab others at European borders: racializing religion and refugees along the Balkan Route 6. Islamophobia and the making of Latinos/as into terrorist threats

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