Othering Islam

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Othering Islam: Proceedings of the International Conference on “The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: The Case of Islamophobia”—Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, June 2-3, 2006

HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge

Volume V • Issue 1 • Fall 2006

Journal Editor:
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, UMass Boston

Issue Co-Editors:

• Ramón Grosfoguel, U.C. Berkeley
• Eric Mielants, Fairfield University

Description

This Fall 2006 (V, 1) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge on “Othering Islam” presents the results of an international conference on “The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: The Case of Islamophobia” organized by Ramón Grosfoguel and Eric Mielants at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) in Paris, France, on June 2- 3, 2006. Topics covered are: “Probing Islamophobia,” “The Long-Durée Entanglement Between Islamophobia and Racism in the Modern/Colonial Capitalist/Patriarchal World-System: An Introduction,” “Islamophobia/Hispanophobia: The (Re) Configuration of the Racial Imperial/Colonial Matrix,” “How Washington’s ‘War on Terror’ Became Everyone’s: Islamophobia and the Impact of September 11 on the Political Terrain of South and Southeast Asia,” “Militarization, Globalization, and Islamist Social Movements: How Today’s Ideology of Islamophobia Fuels Militant Islam,” “Muslim Responses to Integration Demands in the Netherlands since 9/11,” “No Race to the Swift: Negotiating Racial Identity in Past and Present Eastern Europe,” “Life in Samarkand: Caucasus and Central Asia vis-à-vis Russia, the West, and Islam.” Contributors include: Ramón Grosfoguel (also as journal issue guest editor), Eric Mielants (also as journal issue guest editor), Walter D. Mignolo, Farish A. Noor, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, Abdulkader Tayob, Manuela Boatcã, Madina Tlostanova, and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi (also as journal editor-in-chief). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal’s Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR’s homepage.

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Contents

vii— Editor’s Note: “Probing Islamophobia”
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, University of Massachusetts Boston

1— The Long-Durée Entanglement Between Islamophobia and Racism in the Modern/Colonial Capitalist/Patriarchal World-System: An Introduction
Ramón Grosfoguel and Eric Mielants, Guest Co-Editors, U.C. Berkeley and Fairfield University

13— Islamophobia/Hispanophobia: The (Re) Configuration of the Racial Imperial/Colonial Matrix
Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University

29— How Washington’s ‘War on Terror’ Became Everyone’s: Islamophobia and the Impact of September 11 on the Political Terrain of South and Southeast Asia
Farish A. Noor, Zentrum Modernet Orient, Berlin

51— Militarization, Globalization, and Islamist Social Movements: How Today’s Ideology of Islamophobia Fuels Militant Islam
Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, University of San Diego

73— Muslim Responses to Integration Demands in the Netherlands since 9/11
Abdulkader Tayob, University of Cape Town, South Africa

91— No Race to the Swift: Negotiating Racial Identity in Past and Present Eastern Europe
Manuela Boatcã, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

105— Life in Samarkand: Caucasus and Central Asia vis-à-vis Russia, the West, and Islam
Madina Tlostanova, People’s Friendship University of Russia