Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalization: Perspectives on Media, Academia and Socio-political Scapes from Europe and Canada

Editors: Leen d’Haenens, and Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Publication Date: June 15, 2023

ISBN: 9462703698

ISBN-13: 978-9462703698

Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalization discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen chapters of this collection cover and connect interdisciplinary research, media content analyses, media discourse analysis, ethnographic research, intersectoral advocacy work, and action research conducted in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Confronted with an Islamophobia that is growing as a symptom of broader societal malaise in the West, a resistance against it is also arising. It is now a question of better understanding the foundations and mechanism of this metasolidarity and resistance. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalization offers recommendations for urgent consideration by Muslim citizens of Canada and Europe, media professionals, civil society and academic stakeholders, policymakers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels, and academics.

About the Editors

Leen d’Haenens is full professor in communication science at the Institute for Media Studies at KU Leuven.

Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada is full professor in anthropology of mental health and anthropology of Islam at Laval University in Quebec.

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