[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Islamophobia Studies Journal special issue: "Islamophobia: Gender, Sexuality and Racism"

[Gonul Pultar]

    CFP: Islamophobia: Gender, Sexuality and Racism
    <https://networks.h-net.org/node/2602/discussions/26687/cfp-islamophobia-gender-sexuality-and-racism>

by Rabab Abdulhadi <https://networks.h-net.org/users/rabab-abdulhadi-0>

Special Issue of the /Islamophobia Studies Journal /

Islamophobia Studies Journal 
<http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/isj-spring2014>

*Abstracts due:           October 10, 2014*

*Full Articles due:       March 2, 2015*

This special issue of /Islamophobia Studies Journal/ (/ISJ/) aims to 
generate and circulate new knowledge about the relationship between 
Islamophobia, gender, sexuality and racism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

  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.

This special issue of the /ISJ/ 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 /ISJ /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 
/ISJ/ 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.

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.

We welcome a range of critical contributions about flagrant as well as 
more subtle mechanisms and manifestations of *gendered, sexualized and 
racialized Islamophobia*. Within these contours articles may also 
address questions such as:

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

*Abstracts of 500 words are due by October 10, 2014 to 
**islamophobia.racism.gender.sex at gmail.com* 
<mailto:islamophobia.racism.gender.sex at gmail.com>*. Full articles of no 
more than 8,000 words are due on March 2, 2015. *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 
/Islamophobia Studies Journal/, the book or both.

Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, PhD
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies
Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative

College of Ethnic Studies
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave, EP 425
San Francisco, CA 94132

Phone: (415) 405-2668
Fax:     (415) 405-2573
Email: amed at sfsu.edu <mailto:amed at sfsu.edu>


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