Lorraine B Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 224908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorraine B Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorraine B |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7102-2088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The elusive weight of gendered Islamophobia: ‘It’s actually really hard being a Muslim woman sometimes, it’s really mentally draining’
This study analyses how Muslim women in the north of England convey their experiences of subtle gendered Islamophobic microaggressions as an ‘elusive weight’. Employing a narrative thematic analysis of extended interviews with eight Muslim women, our analysis foregrounds the affective dimensions of these experiences by focusing on the metaphors and narrative strategies through which gendered Islamophobia is articulated as a simultaneously heavy a…
Take Them or Leave Them? Gendered Obstacles in Advocacy Work for the Repatriation of Is Affiliates
Instrumentalising Islam: The religious soft power strategies of China, Russia, and the US
This article contributes to the literature on religious soft power by considering how non-Muslim-majority great powers – China, Russia, and the US – use Islam as a foreign policy resource in their soft power strategies. We argue that these states have deployed Islam to present positive self-images on the international stage, at the same time as using negative-other strategies via soft disempowerment to construct competitor states as unfriendly an…
Mamie Djihad’ and ‘the white widow’: Constructing French and British national identities in terrorist times of crisis
This article considers the media representation of two women who left the west for Islamic State (IS) in the mid-2010s: from France, Christine Rivire, nicknamed "Mamie Djihad" (Granny Jihad); and from Britain, Sally Jones, known as "The White Widow".Both were white, middle-aged mothers, born and raised in their respective countries, who converted late in life and left behind established lives and (adult) children to join IS.While much has been wr…
Constructing the ‘good Muslim girl’: Hegemonic and pariah femininities in the British Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) agenda
Since the rise of Islamic State (IS) in 2014, British Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) policy, Prevent, has increasingly focused on the appeal of jihadist ideology to Muslim girls. This article considers the case of the Bethnal Green girls, who migrated to IS territory in February 2015. Using the concepts of hegemonic and pariah femininities, it shows how gender intersects with religion, race, and class in British PVE to construct the ’good Mus…
The Monstrous & the Vulnerable: Framing British Jihadi Brides
In June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and called for Muslims around the world to migrate there. Over the next five years, around 150 women left the UK to heed this invitation, and the so-called "jihadi brides" were rarely out of the news. This book traces the media fascination with those who joined the "caliphate," including Sally Jones, Aqsa Mahmood and Shamima Begum. Through an analysis of the media that…
Still just victims or villains? The “jihadi brides” and the representation of politically violent women
In February 2015, three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green Academy left the UK to join the Islamic State (IS). Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum became emblematic of the group’s “pull” and
Framing British ‘Jihadi Brides’: Metaphor and the Social Construction of I.S. Women
This article considers how mainstream newspapers metaphorically represented the British “jihadi brides”, women and girls who travelled to Syria to live in the self-declared “Islamic State” (I.S.). Based on an analysis of 365 articles published between 2013 and 2018, the article demonstrates that three frequently occurring metaphors contributed to the construction of these women and I.S. in general, representing them as natural, biological and sup…
Islamophobia in Britain
This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes. Since 2001, Muslims in Britain have been constructed as the nation’s significant ‘other’ – an internal and external enemy that threatened both social cohesion and nationa…
Negotiating race and religion in the West Midlands: Narratives of inclusion and exclusion during the 1967–69 Wolverhampton bus workers’ turban dispute
This article considers the 1967–1969 Wolverhampton Transport turban dispute in the context of increased anxiety over immigration to the area and Wolverhampton South West MP Enoch Powell’s April 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. We trace the narratives of the dispute through letters to the Editor in local newspaper The Express & Star, and argue that the letters column was a site of community construction for writers and readers, which elevated the is…
The Ideology and Discourse of the English Defence League: ‘Not Racist, Not Violent, Just No Longer Silent’
Research Highlights and Abstract This is the first discursive study of the EDL's publicly available articles and gives an important insight into their ideology. The study problematises the EDL's claim to be an anti-racist human rights organisation and analyses EDL discourse as racial discourse, demonstrating that the apparent gulf between the group's ideological Islamophobia and their violent and intimidating street protests is largely illusory. …
Aquamater: A Genealogy of Water
British Muslims and the discourses of dysfunction: Community cohesion and counterterrorism in the West Midlands
This article analyses how British discursive representations of Muslims during the last decade were utilised in a local context during the planning stages of a proposed mosque in the West Midlands town of Dudley.Locating the central narratives in dominant national discourses of community cohesion and counterterrorism, this article analyses how correspondents to a local newspaper re-articulated national representations of Muslims as culturally dys…
The West, the rest, and the ‘war on terror: Representation of Muslims in neoconservative media discourse
This paper uses Sayyid's concept of Eurocentrism to analyse neoconservative media discourse following the September 11 attacks. Using predicate analysis on articles from The Weekly Standard magazine, this study aims to determine how neoconservative writers created a Muslim subjectivity following the attacks in order to make certain courses of action appear necessary and inevitable. Four subject positions emerged from the analysis: passive Muslims…
The Attitudes of Black Females toward Upper and Lower Class Black Males
Sarbin's adjective word list was administered to 100 Black female college students. The subjects were asked to select adjectives which they thought described upper and lower class Black and white males, and to assign favorability ratings to the adjectives. Both groups of Black males were assigned more favorable traits than both groups of white males
The Ideology and Discourse of the English Defence League: ‘Not Racist, Not Violent, Just No Longer Silent’
Research Highlights and Abstract This is the first discursive study of the EDL's publicly available articles and gives an important insight into their ideology. The study problematises the EDL's claim to be an anti-racist human rights organisation and analyses EDL discourse as racial discourse, demonstrating that the apparent gulf between the group's ideological Islamophobia and their violent and intimidating street protests is largely illusory. …
Framing British ‘Jihadi Brides’: Metaphor and the Social Construction of I.S. Women
This article considers how mainstream newspapers metaphorically represented the British “jihadi brides”, women and girls who travelled to Syria to live in the self-declared “Islamic State” (I.S.). Based on an analysis of 365 articles published between 2013 and 2018, the article demonstrates that three frequently occurring metaphors contributed to the construction of these women and I.S. in general, representing them as natural, biological and sup…
The West, the rest, and the ‘war on terror: Representation of Muslims in neoconservative media discourse
This paper uses Sayyid's concept of Eurocentrism to analyse neoconservative media discourse following the September 11 attacks. Using predicate analysis on articles from The Weekly Standard magazine, this study aims to determine how neoconservative writers created a Muslim subjectivity following the attacks in order to make certain courses of action appear necessary and inevitable. Four subject positions emerged from the analysis: passive Muslims…
Still just victims or villains? The “jihadi brides” and the representation of politically violent women
In February 2015, three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green Academy left the UK to join the Islamic State (IS). Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum became emblematic of the group’s “pull” and
British Muslims and the discourses of dysfunction: Community cohesion and counterterrorism in the West Midlands
This article analyses how British discursive representations of Muslims during the last decade were utilised in a local context during the planning stages of a proposed mosque in the West Midlands town of Dudley.Locating the central narratives in dominant national discourses of community cohesion and counterterrorism, this article analyses how correspondents to a local newspaper re-articulated national representations of Muslims as culturally dys…
Negotiating race and religion in the West Midlands: Narratives of inclusion and exclusion during the 1967–69 Wolverhampton bus workers’ turban dispute
This article considers the 1967–1969 Wolverhampton Transport turban dispute in the context of increased anxiety over immigration to the area and Wolverhampton South West MP Enoch Powell’s April 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. We trace the narratives of the dispute through letters to the Editor in local newspaper The Express & Star, and argue that the letters column was a site of community construction for writers and readers, which elevated the is…
Constructing the ‘good Muslim girl’: Hegemonic and pariah femininities in the British Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) agenda
Since the rise of Islamic State (IS) in 2014, British Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) policy, Prevent, has increasingly focused on the appeal of jihadist ideology to Muslim girls. This article considers the case of the Bethnal Green girls, who migrated to IS territory in February 2015. Using the concepts of hegemonic and pariah femininities, it shows how gender intersects with religion, race, and class in British PVE to construct the ’good Mus…
The Attitudes of Black Females toward Upper and Lower Class Black Males
Sarbin's adjective word list was administered to 100 Black female college students. The subjects were asked to select adjectives which they thought described upper and lower class Black and white males, and to assign favorability ratings to the adjectives. Both groups of Black males were assigned more favorable traits than both groups of white males
The Attitudes of Black Females toward Upper and Lower Class Black Males
Sarbin's adjective word list was administered to 100 Black female college students. The subjects were asked to select adjectives which they thought described upper and lower class Black and white males, and to assign favorability ratings to the adjectives. Both groups of Black males were assigned more favorable traits than both groups of white males
The West, the rest, and the ‘war on terror: Representation of Muslims in neoconservative media discourse
This paper uses Sayyid's concept of Eurocentrism to analyse neoconservative media discourse following the September 11 attacks. Using predicate analysis on articles from The Weekly Standard magazine, this study aims to determine how neoconservative writers created a Muslim subjectivity following the attacks in order to make certain courses of action appear necessary and inevitable. Four subject positions emerged from the analysis: passive Muslims…
British Muslims and the discourses of dysfunction: Community cohesion and counterterrorism in the West Midlands
This article analyses how British discursive representations of Muslims during the last decade were utilised in a local context during the planning stages of a proposed mosque in the West Midlands town of Dudley.Locating the central narratives in dominant national discourses of community cohesion and counterterrorism, this article analyses how correspondents to a local newspaper re-articulated national representations of Muslims as culturally dys…
Aquamater: A Genealogy of Water
The Ideology and Discourse of the English Defence League: ‘Not Racist, Not Violent, Just No Longer Silent’
Research Highlights and Abstract This is the first discursive study of the EDL's publicly available articles and gives an important insight into their ideology. The study problematises the EDL's claim to be an anti-racist human rights organisation and analyses EDL discourse as racial discourse, demonstrating that the apparent gulf between the group's ideological Islamophobia and their violent and intimidating street protests is largely illusory. …
Negotiating race and religion in the West Midlands: Narratives of inclusion and exclusion during the 1967–69 Wolverhampton bus workers’ turban dispute
This article considers the 1967–1969 Wolverhampton Transport turban dispute in the context of increased anxiety over immigration to the area and Wolverhampton South West MP Enoch Powell’s April 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. We trace the narratives of the dispute through letters to the Editor in local newspaper The Express & Star, and argue that the letters column was a site of community construction for writers and readers, which elevated the is…
Islamophobia in Britain
This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes. Since 2001, Muslims in Britain have been constructed as the nation’s significant ‘other’ – an internal and external enemy that threatened both social cohesion and nationa…
Framing British ‘Jihadi Brides’: Metaphor and the Social Construction of I.S. Women
This article considers how mainstream newspapers metaphorically represented the British “jihadi brides”, women and girls who travelled to Syria to live in the self-declared “Islamic State” (I.S.). Based on an analysis of 365 articles published between 2013 and 2018, the article demonstrates that three frequently occurring metaphors contributed to the construction of these women and I.S. in general, representing them as natural, biological and sup…
Still just victims or villains? The “jihadi brides” and the representation of politically violent women
In February 2015, three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green Academy left the UK to join the Islamic State (IS). Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum became emblematic of the group’s “pull” and
The Monstrous & the Vulnerable: Framing British Jihadi Brides
In June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and called for Muslims around the world to migrate there. Over the next five years, around 150 women left the UK to heed this invitation, and the so-called "jihadi brides" were rarely out of the news. This book traces the media fascination with those who joined the "caliphate," including Sally Jones, Aqsa Mahmood and Shamima Begum. Through an analysis of the media that…
Mamie Djihad’ and ‘the white widow’: Constructing French and British national identities in terrorist times of crisis
This article considers the media representation of two women who left the west for Islamic State (IS) in the mid-2010s: from France, Christine Rivire, nicknamed "Mamie Djihad" (Granny Jihad); and from Britain, Sally Jones, known as "The White Widow".Both were white, middle-aged mothers, born and raised in their respective countries, who converted late in life and left behind established lives and (adult) children to join IS.While much has been wr…
Constructing the ‘good Muslim girl’: Hegemonic and pariah femininities in the British Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) agenda
Since the rise of Islamic State (IS) in 2014, British Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) policy, Prevent, has increasingly focused on the appeal of jihadist ideology to Muslim girls. This article considers the case of the Bethnal Green girls, who migrated to IS territory in February 2015. Using the concepts of hegemonic and pariah femininities, it shows how gender intersects with religion, race, and class in British PVE to construct the ’good Mus…
Take Them or Leave Them? Gendered Obstacles in Advocacy Work for the Repatriation of Is Affiliates
Instrumentalising Islam: The religious soft power strategies of China, Russia, and the US
This article contributes to the literature on religious soft power by considering how non-Muslim-majority great powers – China, Russia, and the US – use Islam as a foreign policy resource in their soft power strategies. We argue that these states have deployed Islam to present positive self-images on the international stage, at the same time as using negative-other strategies via soft disempowerment to construct competitor states as unfriendly an…
The elusive weight of gendered Islamophobia: ‘It’s actually really hard being a Muslim woman sometimes, it’s really mentally draining’
This study analyses how Muslim women in the north of England convey their experiences of subtle gendered Islamophobic microaggressions as an ‘elusive weight’. Employing a narrative thematic analysis of extended interviews with eight Muslim women, our analysis foregrounds the affective dimensions of these experiences by focusing on the metaphors and narrative strategies through which gendered Islamophobia is articulated as a simultaneously heavy a…
Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works)