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Melbourne Asia Review is an initiative of the Asia Institute. Any inquiries about Melbourne Asia Review should be directed to the Managing Editor, Cathy Harper.

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Echoes of future past: The continued hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims

  • Dr David Tittensor,

What is the current place of Islam in the imaginary of Australia and other nations given that it continues to be securitised more than 20 years after 9/11?

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.

Securitisation, nationalism and democracy: The banning of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia

  • Dr Christian Harijanto and Professor Farida Fozdar,

How HTI was constructed as an existential threat and banned using a process beyond the normal systems of democracy.