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Re-Entangling Palestine

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Nadia Fadil
August 30, 2021August 30, 2021

While the notion of solidarity assumes a separation in the struggles, and a tactical alliance and support, the vocabulary of entanglement forces us to reckon with the interdependency of these different struggles.

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Introducing The Arab and Jewish Questions

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Leila Farsakh
August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

This book interrogates the opposition between the “Arab” and the “Jew” in order to challenge dominant understandings of political identities, nationalism, and citizenship rights.

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Interrogating Modernity and Egalitarian Binationalism in Palestine/Israel

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Bashir Bashir
August 26, 2021January 27, 2024

“The question of Palestine,” “the Jewish question,” and “the Muslim question” are conceptually and historically linked, and their entanglement continues to fuel tensions in the Middle East, Europe, and the USA.

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Islamophobia and Epistemological Ignorance

Uzma Jamil
July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

Islamophobia is sustained, not through personal prejudice, but through a systemic refusal to see Quebec’s own Whiteness as integral to its national identity.

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Radical Free Speech

Series: Secularism in France
Nadia Fadil
December 2, 2020December 2, 2020

Now anti-racist views, including academic ones, are also being charged with instigating hate and polarization.

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France: A Sacred Union against Terrorism or against Muslims?

Series: Secularism in France
Houria Bouteldja
November 24, 2020November 25, 2020

The main aim of the establishment becomes clear: to foreclose the emergence of other interpretations of the tragic murder. To use all means possible to prevent the meeting of the two angers (white anger and the anger of racialized populations) and the possibility of their convergence. These must be separated and partitioned.

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From Danish Cartoons to French Separatism: Mobilizing Culture Wars

Series: Secularism in France
H. A. Hellyer
November 19, 2020November 22, 2020

The question was never about free speech per se; it was about what we, as Europeans, considered to be sacred in the public sphere, and how we, as Europeans, continually redraw the lines of inclusion and exclusion in our political, social, and cultural spaces.

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Religious Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
March 3, 2020February 1, 2024

The anthropological discourse about religion was from the outset deeply implicated in the discourse of race and in projects of global expansion and socio-political control.

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Religion and Peacebuilding: A Postcolonial Perspective

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
Kwok Pui Lan
October 21, 2019January 5, 2022

In the study of religion and peacebuilding, it is crucial to pay attention to subaltern religious consciousness and grassroots efforts in promoting peace.

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Islamophobia Beyond Christchurch: Muslims as Tamed Others

Series: Christchurch and Beyond
Lailatul Fitriyah
June 18, 2019August 7, 2019

Islamophobia is intertwined with state-sponsored violence and securitization, narratives of nationalism, and the flows of the global market and commodification.

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