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WEBINAR: Reflecting on 20+ years of the securitisation of Islam and Muslims

What is the place of Islam in the Australian imaginary, given that it continues to be securitised more than 20 years after 9/11?

INTERVIEW: Terrorism, Muslimness and Islamophobia – Counterterrorism’s impact on Muslim communities

  • Dr Rizwaan Sabir,

The moment I was accused of being a terrorist, my identity as a Muslim took precedence over everything else.

Islamophobia and Securitisation: The Dutch Case by Liselotte Welten and Tahir Abbas

  • Professor Mark Sedgwick,

The book shows that the securitisation of Islam and Muslims in the Netherlands may actually be reducing security, not improving it.

The managed securitisation of Malay-Muslims in Singapore

  • Julius Mok,

The state has a vision of Singapore where each ‘race’ plays its part to maintain what it sees as the nation’s fragile status.

Social reengineering in the name of security in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

  • Dr Michael Clarke,

‘Becoming family’: the extreme securitisation of Uyghur identity in China.