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<h2><a
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Islamophobia: Gender, Sexuality and Racism</a></h2>
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title="View user profile." class="username">Rabab
Abdulhadi</a></div>
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<p>Special Issue of the <em>Islamophobia Studies
Journal </em></p>
<p><a
href="http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/isj-spring2014"
rel="nofollow">Islamophobia Studies Journal</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Abstracts due: October 10, 2014</strong></p>
<p><strong>Full Articles due: March 2, 2015</strong></p>
<p>This special issue of <em>Islamophobia Studies
Journal</em> (<em>ISJ</em>) aims to generate and
circulate new knowledge about the relationship between
Islamophobia, gender, sexuality and racism.</p>
<p>It has been over a decade since the mediatization of
events on 9-11-2001 created new forms and techniques
of Islamophobia and brought along intensified scrutiny
of politicized forms of Islam. Across the globe we
note interactions between context-specific
Islamophobia and its powerful transnational flows from
elsewhere. We live in a world of increasing
inter-connectedness, such that news, policies, images
and practices can travel
instantaneously between different sites. And in the
current deepening economic crisis, we are witnessing
an escalation of migration from postcolonial sites
including Muslim-majority countries.</p>
<p>In this context gender, sexuality and race are
enlisted in a variety of ways to legitimize and
bolster Islamophobic discourses and practices. For
instance, under the guise of saving women and queers
from Arab and Muslim communities, Islamophobic
colonial feminism and more recently imperialist
concerns about “the status of homosexuality” has been
used to legitimize invasions, occupations, war and
destruction. Scholars have addressed some highly
publicized examples, such as the occupation of
Afghanistan that then U.S. President George W. Bush
claimed, with the active support of colonial
feminists, as a plan to “free” Afghan women from
Afghan men. Islamophobia and Orientalism also guided
the manipulation and deployment of queer sexualities
in Abu Ghraib. While a plethora
of examples abound, the analyses are very few. This
project will shift that disconnect by providing a
means to understand site-specific as well as
transnational phenomena.</p>
<p>While Islamophobia is thought to have intensified
since 9/11/2001, we note that such a presupposition
problematically places the United States in the center
of life across the planet. In the United States and in
many other places across the globe, especially in
Western Europe, there is surely an increase in
Islamophobic profiling, criminalization, harassment,
persecution, incarceration and disappearances.
However, in many of these sites, including the United
States, there is a long history of slower and more
insidious Islamophobia formations in nearly all
registers of life from dominant and popular culture
(from opera and ballet to world fairs, cinema, music,
etc.) to (official) governmental and juridical
practices and discourses.</p>
<p>Farther back, there are multiple, place-specific
genealogies to
and manifestations of Islamophobia globally. Some of
the most intense moments include: the crusades; the
1492 expulsion of Arab Muslims from Andalucía; settler
colonialisms; the kidnapping and enslavement of
Africans in the Americas; the 15th and 16th century
colonization of Africa and Asia; the attempts to crush
anti-colonial resistance movements in the 18th to 20th
centuries.</p>
<p>Importantly, from the earliest to the most recent of
its manifestations, gendered, sexualized and racist
discourses and practices have been integral to the
formation, maintenance and life of Islamophobia. While
gendered, sexualized and racialized Islamophobia is
there to mine in historical archives, it has only been
partially researched.</p>
<p> Across the globe today, there is some excellent,
albeit sporadic critical work by feminist, queer,
critical race and area studies scholars on gender and
Islamophobia, the racialization of Islam and Muslims,
and the place of queer gender and sexualities in
Islamophobia. This includes analyses of the U.S. wars
on Afghanistan and Iraq, the French military
interventions in Mali and other African countries, and
the gendered, sexed and racialized relationship
between Islamophobic discourses and policies in the
heart of Empire and in colonial and “postcolonial”
sites. An example is the scholarship on how France’s
neo-colonialism reinforces and extends its official
national Islamophobic policies while it maintains its
“civilizing mission” of third world spaces and peoples
it colonized and whose decolonization France has never
fully accepted.</p>
<p>This special issue of the <em>ISJ</em> on
Islamophobia, Gender, Sexuality and Racism, to be
co-edited by Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi (San Francisco
State University) and Paola Bacchetta (University of
California at Berkeley), will draw upon insights of
existing scattered earlier and current scholarship.
The special issue of <em>ISJ </em>aims to radically
deepen and extend our analytics for
today. While the relatively few prior related works
tend to be site-specific, we will bring together a
body of innovative international scholarship on
Islamophobia in which gender, sexuality, race and
other relations of power are central. Our intent is to
de-center the habitual U.S.-centric starting point of
9/11/2001 without glossing over its impact on lives
and the ways in which it has altered scholarship on
Islam and Muslims. Rather, this special issue of <em>ISJ</em>
seeks to open up the discussion on Islamophobia to
other temporalities, problematics and political
geographies including but not limited to Africa; Asia;
Central and South America and the Caribbean; Eastern
and Western Europe; North, Central and South America;
and the Pacific.</p>
<p>The present issue will include scholarship that
individually and together opens up, expands and
creates new conversations in which gender, sexuality
and race are central to the study of Islamophobia. We
seek fresh interdisciplinary,
transdisciplinary, international and comparative
contributions that alone, in dialogue and/or
inter-translation, enable the formation of new areas
of knowledge production. We especially welcome work
that moves beyond the bounds of current dominant
epistemologies with their modes of interpretation,
categories, terms, presuppositions and logics. We seek
articles that present new, counter-hegemonic analyses,
approaches and concepts.</p>
<p>We welcome a range of critical contributions about
flagrant as well as more subtle mechanisms and
manifestations of <strong>gendered, sexualized and
racialized Islamophobia</strong>. Within these
contours articles may also address questions such as:</p>
<p>· Settler colonialism and other forms of
colonialism; enslavement; neocolonialism; occupation;
global capitalism; neo-liberalism; Islamophobia across
the political spectrum from left to liberal to
centrist and right-wing politics; political traumas;
militarization, policing,
surveillance, incarceration and security states; the
juridicial; deployments of gendered and sexual
imageries in psychological warfare.</p>
<p>· Material conditions of African, Arab and
Asian Muslims; marginalization, exclusion and
murderous inclusions; Orientalism, colonial feminisms
and the saving enterprise; the construction,
generalization and/or homogenization of Muslims; the
uses and limitations of homonationalism; the
exceptionalizing constructions of African, Arab and
Asian Muslim queer and transgender subjects, and of
African, Arab and Asian Muslim femininities and
masculinities; materialities of dress codes and
repressions.</p>
<p>· Dominant and popular culture; Islamophobic
misidentifications or the extension of racialized
targeting of Muslims to others; critiques of dominant
fields of intelligibility, categories, terms,
presuppositions and logics; constructions and
deployments of Islamophobic terminologies such as
“fundamentalism”;
the notion of secularism; etc.</p>
<p>· Resistance to and solidarities against
Islamophobia and its material conditions including:
south-south, third world, and subaltern-to-subaltern
feminist and queer alliances and solidarities;
political organizing, art, writing, performance,
cultural jamming, music and other cultural and
intellectual labor.</p>
<p><strong>Abstracts of 500 words are due by October 10,
2014 to </strong><a
href="mailto:islamophobia.racism.gender.sex@gmail.com"
rel="nofollow"><strong>islamophobia.racism.gender.sex@gmail.com</strong></a><strong>.
Full articles of no more than 8,000 words are due on
March 2, 2015. </strong>Abstracts submitted for the
special issue of IJS may also be considered for a
subsequent larger anthology on Islamophobia: Gender,
Sexuality and Racism to be co-edited by Rabab
Abdulhadi and Paola Bacchetta. Please specify at the
time of submission if you would like your manuscript
to be considered for the <em>Islamophobia Studies
Journal</em>, the book or both.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, PhD<br>
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and
Resistance Studies<br>
Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and
Diasporas Initiative</p>
<p>College of Ethnic Studies<br>
San Francisco State University<br>
1600 Holloway Ave, EP 425<br>
San Francisco, CA 94132<br>
</p>
<p>Phone: (415) 405-2668<br>
Fax: (415) 405-2573<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:amed@sfsu.edu" rel="nofollow">amed@sfsu.edu</a></p>
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