David Tittensor
Biographic Data
| ID | 163594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Tittensor |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Tittensor |
| SIGNATURE | TITTENSOR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0719-873X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Changing Religious Affiliation Among Older Australians: Estimates and Projections to Mid-century
The purpose of this study was to investigate shifting religious affiliation of the older Australian population to mid-century. Projections were produced with a cohort-component model classified by both country/region of birth and religious affiliation and divided by sex and five-year age groups. By mid-century, we project a rapid increase in the percentage of people reporting ‘No religion’ (+ 82%, + 8.65 million), alongside a decrease in Christia…
Muslim identities in an era of hypersecurity: Insights from two contrasting Australian communities
More than two decades on, the shadow of 9/11 and the Bali bombings continues to linger over Australia and its small Muslim population. We posit this is due to an existential fear of both Islam and Muslims in the Australian imaginary, an imaginary that continues to be cast as Judeo-Christian. This has led to the hyper-securitisation of an entire religious community which has had several effects on the ways Muslims navigate a sense of belonging in …
Echoes of future past: The continued hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims
Epistemic Violence and the Rise of the Pseudo‐Secular Islamic FBO in the Age of the ‘Religious Turn’ in Development
Over the past two to three decades, there has been a significant shift within the development sector. Previously considered ‘taboo’, religiously inspired Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) have become increasingly welcomed and involved as partners and collaborators with international financial institutions and leading aid donors. However, while a place has been set at the table this has not been an equitable one. Rather, there is still the expectat…
Becoming secular, yet remaining religious: The Gülen movement and the 'engineering' of the golden generation
In recent years there has been a religious turn in the development sector with the World Bank and national funding agencies in Europe and the US opening the space to Faith Based Organisations (FBOs). However, for some Islamic FBOs, this has not led to a comfortable assertion of their religious identity and mission on the world stage. Rather, in the post 9/11 environment, some Islamic FBOs have opted to develop an ‘invisible Islam’ wherein they ba…
Gülen Movement
Hyper-Securitisation and Belonging: Understanding the Plight of Young Muslims in Melbourne, Australia
Following 9/11 the Australian government instituted an unprecedented raft of counter-terrorism measures, which introduced both preventative mass surveillance and pre-crime offences. We suggest that this development represents part of a broader turn in the West towards a “militant democratic” approach to countering violent extremism that, whilst not directly targeting Muslims in name, does so in practice, and has had negative unintended consequenc…
The Gülen Movement and Surviving in Exile: The case of Australia
In 2010, cracks began to emerge in the tacit alliance between the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party in Turkey, AK Party) and the Gülen Movement (GM) and escalated into an all-out struggle in 2013. Following the failed 15 July coup in 2016, Erdoğan sought to eradicate the movement completely, seizing $11 billion in GM assets and purging over 150,000 people from all sectors, public and private. However, Erdoğan is awa…
Understanding Islamic aid flows to enhance global humanitarian assistance
The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South
This book shines a light on the issues of governance, rights and the injustices that are meted out to an ever growing and vulnerable sector of the global migrant community – women. Whilst much of the
Islam and Development: Exploring the Invisible Aid Economy
Doing political ethnography in a difficult climate: A Turkish case study
In recent times, there has been a great deal of soul-searching about terms such as 'deception' and 'informed consent' and, consequently, ethics review boards have applied the biomedical ethics model to the ethnographic endeavour and the wider social sciences. However, these new strictures are problematic, particularly when undertaking politically sensitive research. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey on the maligned religiou…
The Contemporary Middle East: Revolution or Reform
The title of this book is intentionally general as it seeks to go beyond the Arab uprisings that swept across the region in late 2010 and provide a more expansive survey. While these revolutions, e
Islam's Modern Day Ibn Battutas: Gülen Teachers Journeying Towards the Divine
There is a longstanding debate on whether Muslims can be modern. Some argue that they can only be so if they forsake their traditions and embrace rationalism. In this article I argue that the Gülen Movement, a transnational Turkish Muslim educational activist network has found a middle ground by blending religious traditions with modern day realities. Drawing on interviews from the movement's teachers and graduates of its schools, from Turkey, Ce…
The Gülen movement and the case of a secret agenda: Putting the debate in perspective
n\t\t\t\t\tThe Gülen movement, a charity-based Turkish Muslim educational activist network, went global in the 1990s and has established approximately 1,000 secular educational institutions in more than 100 countries. The movement has an estimated worth of $25 billion, making it perhaps the largest faith-based transnational organization in the world today. However, in the wake of 9/11 and increased global anxiety about terrorism, mistrust regardi…
Social Capital and Public Policy – The Current Challenge Facing the Victorian Government
Social capital, since Putnam's 1993 work, has captured the imagination of policy‐makers the world over, and Australia is no exception. In 2005 the Department of Victorian Communities launched its Actions for Community Strengthening policy statement, which draws heavily on social capital theory. This article explores the theoretical underpinnings of the government's policy and critiques its failure to deal adequately with the causal relationship b…
Doing political ethnography in a difficult climate: A Turkish case study
In recent times, there has been a great deal of soul-searching about terms such as 'deception' and 'informed consent' and, consequently, ethics review boards have applied the biomedical ethics model to the ethnographic endeavour and the wider social sciences. However, these new strictures are problematic, particularly when undertaking politically sensitive research. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey on the maligned religiou…
Hyper-Securitisation and Belonging: Understanding the Plight of Young Muslims in Melbourne, Australia
Following 9/11 the Australian government instituted an unprecedented raft of counter-terrorism measures, which introduced both preventative mass surveillance and pre-crime offences. We suggest that this development represents part of a broader turn in the West towards a “militant democratic” approach to countering violent extremism that, whilst not directly targeting Muslims in name, does so in practice, and has had negative unintended consequenc…
The Gülen movement and the case of a secret agenda: Putting the debate in perspective
n\t\t\t\t\tThe Gülen movement, a charity-based Turkish Muslim educational activist network, went global in the 1990s and has established approximately 1,000 secular educational institutions in more than 100 countries. The movement has an estimated worth of $25 billion, making it perhaps the largest faith-based transnational organization in the world today. However, in the wake of 9/11 and increased global anxiety about terrorism, mistrust regardi…
Islam's Modern Day Ibn Battutas: Gülen Teachers Journeying Towards the Divine
There is a longstanding debate on whether Muslims can be modern. Some argue that they can only be so if they forsake their traditions and embrace rationalism. In this article I argue that the Gülen Movement, a transnational Turkish Muslim educational activist network has found a middle ground by blending religious traditions with modern day realities. Drawing on interviews from the movement's teachers and graduates of its schools, from Turkey, Ce…
Epistemic Violence and the Rise of the Pseudo‐Secular Islamic FBO in the Age of the ‘Religious Turn’ in Development
Over the past two to three decades, there has been a significant shift within the development sector. Previously considered ‘taboo’, religiously inspired Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) have become increasingly welcomed and involved as partners and collaborators with international financial institutions and leading aid donors. However, while a place has been set at the table this has not been an equitable one. Rather, there is still the expectat…
Becoming secular, yet remaining religious: The Gülen movement and the 'engineering' of the golden generation
In recent years there has been a religious turn in the development sector with the World Bank and national funding agencies in Europe and the US opening the space to Faith Based Organisations (FBOs). However, for some Islamic FBOs, this has not led to a comfortable assertion of their religious identity and mission on the world stage. Rather, in the post 9/11 environment, some Islamic FBOs have opted to develop an ‘invisible Islam’ wherein they ba…
The Gülen Movement and Surviving in Exile: The case of Australia
In 2010, cracks began to emerge in the tacit alliance between the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party in Turkey, AK Party) and the Gülen Movement (GM) and escalated into an all-out struggle in 2013. Following the failed 15 July coup in 2016, Erdoğan sought to eradicate the movement completely, seizing $11 billion in GM assets and purging over 150,000 people from all sectors, public and private. However, Erdoğan is awa…
Understanding Islamic aid flows to enhance global humanitarian assistance
The Contemporary Middle East: Revolution or Reform
The title of this book is intentionally general as it seeks to go beyond the Arab uprisings that swept across the region in late 2010 and provide a more expansive survey. While these revolutions, e
Social Capital and Public Policy – The Current Challenge Facing the Victorian Government
Social capital, since Putnam's 1993 work, has captured the imagination of policy‐makers the world over, and Australia is no exception. In 2005 the Department of Victorian Communities launched its Actions for Community Strengthening policy statement, which draws heavily on social capital theory. This article explores the theoretical underpinnings of the government's policy and critiques its failure to deal adequately with the causal relationship b…
The Gülen movement and the case of a secret agenda: Putting the debate in perspective
n\t\t\t\t\tThe Gülen movement, a charity-based Turkish Muslim educational activist network, went global in the 1990s and has established approximately 1,000 secular educational institutions in more than 100 countries. The movement has an estimated worth of $25 billion, making it perhaps the largest faith-based transnational organization in the world today. However, in the wake of 9/11 and increased global anxiety about terrorism, mistrust regardi…
The Contemporary Middle East: Revolution or Reform
The title of this book is intentionally general as it seeks to go beyond the Arab uprisings that swept across the region in late 2010 and provide a more expansive survey. While these revolutions, e
Islam's Modern Day Ibn Battutas: Gülen Teachers Journeying Towards the Divine
There is a longstanding debate on whether Muslims can be modern. Some argue that they can only be so if they forsake their traditions and embrace rationalism. In this article I argue that the Gülen Movement, a transnational Turkish Muslim educational activist network has found a middle ground by blending religious traditions with modern day realities. Drawing on interviews from the movement's teachers and graduates of its schools, from Turkey, Ce…
Islam and Development: Exploring the Invisible Aid Economy
Doing political ethnography in a difficult climate: A Turkish case study
In recent times, there has been a great deal of soul-searching about terms such as 'deception' and 'informed consent' and, consequently, ethics review boards have applied the biomedical ethics model to the ethnographic endeavour and the wider social sciences. However, these new strictures are problematic, particularly when undertaking politically sensitive research. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey on the maligned religiou…
The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South
This book shines a light on the issues of governance, rights and the injustices that are meted out to an ever growing and vulnerable sector of the global migrant community – women. Whilst much of the
The Gülen Movement and Surviving in Exile: The case of Australia
In 2010, cracks began to emerge in the tacit alliance between the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party in Turkey, AK Party) and the Gülen Movement (GM) and escalated into an all-out struggle in 2013. Following the failed 15 July coup in 2016, Erdoğan sought to eradicate the movement completely, seizing $11 billion in GM assets and purging over 150,000 people from all sectors, public and private. However, Erdoğan is awa…
Understanding Islamic aid flows to enhance global humanitarian assistance
Gülen Movement
Hyper-Securitisation and Belonging: Understanding the Plight of Young Muslims in Melbourne, Australia
Following 9/11 the Australian government instituted an unprecedented raft of counter-terrorism measures, which introduced both preventative mass surveillance and pre-crime offences. We suggest that this development represents part of a broader turn in the West towards a “militant democratic” approach to countering violent extremism that, whilst not directly targeting Muslims in name, does so in practice, and has had negative unintended consequenc…
Becoming secular, yet remaining religious: The Gülen movement and the 'engineering' of the golden generation
In recent years there has been a religious turn in the development sector with the World Bank and national funding agencies in Europe and the US opening the space to Faith Based Organisations (FBOs). However, for some Islamic FBOs, this has not led to a comfortable assertion of their religious identity and mission on the world stage. Rather, in the post 9/11 environment, some Islamic FBOs have opted to develop an ‘invisible Islam’ wherein they ba…
Epistemic Violence and the Rise of the Pseudo‐Secular Islamic FBO in the Age of the ‘Religious Turn’ in Development
Over the past two to three decades, there has been a significant shift within the development sector. Previously considered ‘taboo’, religiously inspired Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) have become increasingly welcomed and involved as partners and collaborators with international financial institutions and leading aid donors. However, while a place has been set at the table this has not been an equitable one. Rather, there is still the expectat…
Echoes of future past: The continued hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims
Changing Religious Affiliation Among Older Australians: Estimates and Projections to Mid-century
The purpose of this study was to investigate shifting religious affiliation of the older Australian population to mid-century. Projections were produced with a cohort-component model classified by both country/region of birth and religious affiliation and divided by sex and five-year age groups. By mid-century, we project a rapid increase in the percentage of people reporting ‘No religion’ (+ 82%, + 8.65 million), alongside a decrease in Christia…
Muslim identities in an era of hypersecurity: Insights from two contrasting Australian communities
More than two decades on, the shadow of 9/11 and the Bali bombings continues to linger over Australia and its small Muslim population. We posit this is due to an existential fear of both Islam and Muslims in the Australian imaginary, an imaginary that continues to be cast as Judeo-Christian. This has led to the hyper-securitisation of an entire religious community which has had several effects on the ways Muslims navigate a sense of belonging in …
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Islam (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · History (4 works)