This timely collection examines the interpenetration of the global and the local in the West's cultural politics towards Islam, highlighting parallels in the responses of governments and in the worrying reversion to a politics of coercion and assimilation. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in race and ethnicity; citizenship and assimilation; political communication, securitisation and The War on Terror; and moral panics.
George Morgan is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, author of Unsettled Places: Aboriginal People and Urbanisation, and co-editor of Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia.
Scott Poynting is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is co-author of Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other, and Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime, and co-editor of Contemporary State Terrorism: Theory and Practice, and Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia.
Michael Welch, George Morgan, Scott Poynting, Bruce M.Z. Cohen, Catharina Muhamad-Brandner, Francis Pakes, Bruno Cousi, Tommaso Vitale, Diana Mulinari, Anders Neergaard, Scott A. Bonn, Ryan J. Al Natour, Selda Dagistanli, Kiran Grewal, Kevin M. Dunn, Alanna Kamp, Joanne Massey, Rajinder Singh Tatla, Anneke Meyer, Joanna Gilmore, Greg Noble.