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Spatialising Islamophobia: Responding to and Resisting Anti-Muslim Racism in Scotland

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This chapter spatialises the key characteristics of gendered Islamophobia using a scalar perspective to demonstrate the complex ways that Islamophobia functions within and across different geographical scales. We draw attention to the embodied and digital nature of gendered Islamophobia, its operation in neighbourhoods, communities and cities, and its presence in national and global contexts. We build upon two studies to do this. The first was a study of the political participation of young Muslims and the second was an inquiry into the issue of Islamophobia as part of the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia. The findings of both studies highlighted that gendered Islamophobia remains a key issue when it comes to tackling Islamophobia. We conclude by considering the ways in which gendered Islamophobia is resisted and responded to in creative and engaging ways by those who experience it.

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Acknowledgements

The political participation project was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/K000594/1) and the Institute for Social Renewal at Newcastle University. The public inquiry project was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, Impact Acceleration Account Grant Ref: ES/T501827/1 Newcastle University. We thank all the funders for supporting this work and to all of those who took time to participate in our research.

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  1. Institute for Economic and Social Inclusion, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK

    Robin Finlay

  2. School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Finlay, R., Hopkins, P. (2024). Spatialising Islamophobia: Responding to and Resisting Anti-Muslim Racism in Scotland. In: Easat-Daas, A., Zempi, I. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Islamophobia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52022-8_14

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