The Rise of Global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, Race, and Islam

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This international edited volume examines the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror across the global North and South, its impact on Muslims and Muslim communities, and resistance confronting it.

The War on Terror ushered in a new era of anti-Muslim bias and racism. Anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia, is influenced by local economies, power structures and histories. However, the War on Terror, a conflict undefined by time and place, with a homogenised Muslim Other framed as a perpetual enemy, has contributed towards a global Islamophobic narrative. This edited international volume examines the connections between interpersonal and institutional anti-Muslim racism that have contributed to the growth and emboldening of nativist and populist protest movements globally. It maps out categories of Islamophobia, revealing how localised histories, conflicts and contemporary geopolitical realities have textured the ways that Islamophobia has manifested across the global North and South. At the same time, it seeks to highlight activism and resistance confronting Islamophobia.

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Naved Bakali is an Assistant Professor of Anti-Racism Education at the University of Windsor

Farid Hafez is a Class of 1955 Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College