Islamophobia, European Modernity and Contemporary Illiberalism

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Acknowledgments

This issue is the outcome of a conference held on 16 and 17 June 2011 at the Prato centre of Monash University, Italy: ‘Globalization, Illiberalism and Islam: Perspectives from Europe and Australia’. The conference was supported by the Monash European and EU Centre, a joint undertaking by the European Commission of the European Union (EU) and Monash University. The participation of Robert Gould was funded from the grant from the European Commission to the Centre for European Studies of Carleton University, Ottawa. As co-editors we wish to thank Derya Dilara for her valuable help in organizing the conference and Virginie Andre for all the practical support given during the preparation of this journal issue. We also wish to acknowledge the intellectual support of Greg Barton, Acting Director, Centre for Islam and the Modern World, Monash University. Finally, we thank the participants to the conference and all Australian, European and American academics who found the time to act as anonymous referees. Their feedback was most valuable.

Notes

¹On the history of this term and its contemporary usage, see Chris Allen, Islamophobia (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010); also see Marwan Muhammad, ‘Islamophobia: A Deep-rooted Phenomenon’, Arches Quarterly, 4:7 (Winter 2010), pp. 96–101.

²Jon Kelly, ‘What is Baroness Warsi's “Dinner Table Test”?’, BBC, 20 January 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12240315 (accessed 20 February 2013).

³Salman Sayyid, ‘Thinking Through Islamophobia’ in Salman Sayyid and Abdool Karim Vakil (eds) Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), p. 1.

⁴Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011).

⁵John Espositio and Ibrahim Kalin (eds) Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

⁶Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

⁷Abdool Karim Vakil ‘When is it Islamophobia Time’ in Salman Sayyid and Abdool Karim Vakil (eds) Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), pp. 33–41.

⁸ Abdool Karim Vakil, op. cit., pp. 39–40.

⁹France 24 International News, ‘France Orders Tighter Security in the Wake of Mali Intervention’, 13 January 2013, http://www.france24.com/en/20130112-france-hollande-orders-tighter-security-mali-operation; Bloomberg, ‘Hollande Popularity Gains After Mali Intervention, Poll Shows’, 29 January 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/hollande-popularity-gains-after-mali-intervention-poll-shows.html.

¹⁰Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (New York: Pantheon Book, 2004).

¹¹Mustpha Cherif, Islam and the West: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2008), p. 38.

¹²P. Werbner ‘Islamophobia: Incitement to Religious Hatred – Legislating for a New Fear?’, Anthropology Today, 21:1 (2005), pp. 5–9.

¹³John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000).