http://hdl.handle.net/2173/687 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:43:23 GMT 2013-05-22T00:43:23Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/238271 Title: Bin Laden in the suburbs: criminalising the Arab other Authors: Poynting, Scott; Noble, Greg; Tabar, Paul; Collins, Jock Abstract: This book examines public worrying over 'ethnic crime' and what it tells us about Australia today. How, for instance, can the blame for a series of brutal group sexual assaults in Sydney be so widely attributed to whole ethnic communities? How is it that the arrival of a foundering boatload of asylum-seekers mostly seeking refuge from despotic regimes in 'the Middle East' can be manipulated to characterise complete cohorts of applicants for refuge - and their immigrant compatriots - as dangerous, dishonest, criminally inclined and inhuman? How did the airborne terror attacks on the USA on 11 September 2001 exacerbate existing tendencies in Australia to stereotype Arabs and Muslims as backward, inassimilable, without respect for Western laws and values, and complicit with barbarism and terrorism? Bin Laden in the Suburbs argues that we are witnessing the emergence of the 'Arab Other' as the pre-eminent 'folk devil' of our time. This Arab Other functions in the national imaginary to prop up the project of national belonging. It has little to do with the lived experiences of Arab, Middle Eastern or Muslim Australians, and everything to do with a host of social anxieties which overlap in a series of moral panics. Bin Laden in the Suburbs analyses a decisive moment in the history of multiculturalism in Australia. Description: Full text of this book is available for download through the Sydney eScholarship Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8593 Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/238271 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/238261 Title: Global Islamophobia: Muslims and moral panic in the West Authors: Morgan, George; Poynting, Scott Abstract: The decade since 9/11 has seen a decline in liberal tolerance in the West as Muslims have endured increasing levels of repression. This book presents a series of case studies from Western Europe, Australia and North America demonstrating the transnational character of Islamophobia. The authors explore contemporary intercultural conflicts using the concept of moral panic, revitalised for the era of globalisation. Exploring various sites of conflict, Global Islamophobia considers the role played by 'moral entrepreneurs' in orchestrating popular xenophobia and in agitating for greater surveillance, policing and cultural regulation of those deemed a threat to the nation's security or imagined community. This timely collection examines the interpenetration of the global and the local in the West's cultural politics towards Islam, highlighting parallels in the responses of governments and in the worrying reversion to a politics of coercion and assimilation. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in race and ethnicity; citizenship and assimilation; political communication, securitisation and The War on Terror; and moral panics. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/238261 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/238260 Title: Counter-terrorism and state political violence: the 'war on terror' as terror Authors: Poynting, Scott; Whyte, David Abstract: This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state ‘counter-terrorism’ strategies. The book examines how state counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror, in the form of state political violence. It seeks to answer three key questions: To what extent can counter-terror strategies be read as a form of state terror? How fundamental is state terror to the maintenance of a neo-liberal social order? What are the features of counter-terrorism that render it so easily reducible to state terror? In order to explore these issues, and to reach an understanding of what it means to say that the ‘war on terror’ is terror , the contributing authors draw upon case studies from a range of geographical contexts including the UK and Northern Ireland, the US and Colombia, and Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam. Analysing these case studies from a psychological-warfare and hegemonic perspective, the book also includes two chapters from Noam Chomsky and John Pilger, which provide a global and historical context. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/238260 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/238251 Title: Disability and the continuum of violence Authors: Hollomotz, Andrea Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/238251 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z