[Rezension von: Croft, Stuart, 1963-, Securitizing Islam]
Croft valuably adds his voice to those who document the increasing hostility, demonization, and insecurity faced by British Muslims in the name of the “War on Terror,” but also it seems in the name of Britishness. In many ways this book is as much about how identity politics (in this case Britishnes...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2015, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 158-160 |
Review of: | Securitizing Islam (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012) (Brown, Katherine E.)
Securitizing Islam (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012) (Brown, Katherine E.) Securitizing Islam (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012) (Brown, Katherine E.) Securitizing Islam (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012) (Brown, Katherine E.) |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Eleventh of September terrorist attack
/ Islam
/ Great Britain
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IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam KBF British Isles |
Further subjects: | B
Book review
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Summary: | Croft valuably adds his voice to those who document the increasing hostility, demonization, and insecurity faced by British Muslims in the name of the “War on Terror,” but also it seems in the name of Britishness. In many ways this book is as much about how identity politics (in this case Britishness) constructs security and insecurity as it is about charting the challenges of British Muslims. He finds that in the wake of the reconstitution of Britishness under the threat of “New Terrorism” what is “left out” of “New Britishness” is the internal Muslim other. This Muslim other is further subdivided into the “minority” radical other and the majority Orientalized other, the former to be destroyed and the latter patronized. By offering the theoretical framework of "ontological security” and securitization, he helps explains why and how Muslims and Islam came to be cast in the role of the other for the British ... |
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ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu110 |