Randa Abdel-Fattah
Biographic Data
| ID | 256959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randa Abdel-Fattah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randa |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdel-Fattah |
| SIGNATURE | ABDEL-FATTAH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3762-3511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Muslim Solidarity with Palestine whilst Living on Stolen Land
This paper contextualises Muslim celebrations within a neoliberal understanding of politics and the consequent erasure of Indigenous identity. It traces the overlap of spectacles of Israeli brutality against Palestinians during Ramadan with official Ramadan and Eid celebrations in Australia when the Islamic concept of “ummah” is invoked to mobilise Muslim solidarity with Palestine. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, and drawing on Critical Ind…
Should we stay or should we go? Dilemmas arising from (new) corporate ownership of a digital public space
If a chauvinistic troll billionaire takes control of a digital platform, enabling hate speech and tailoring algorithms around their whims, how should higher education institutional accounts respond? To consider this question, our paper uses a collaborative listening approach to navigate diverse positionings and political imperatives: it presents both collective analysis and individual authored reflections from seven members (faculty and PhD stude…
Ceasefire Now
This zine emerged as a creative output of my Australian Research Council Future Fellowship project investigating and archiving Arab-Australian intersectional, decolonial, transnational, solidarity activism as a constitutive dimension of Australian political culture and social movement participation. I was inspired to create this zine through my immersion in a network of activists and academics responding to Israel's current war on Gaza. The zine …
Negotiating Australian academia as a historically white settler colonial institution
In Australia, there is a dearth of research applying the theoretical lens of critical race theory to explore Muslim university students’ experiences in higher degree education institutions. The prevailing approach has been to focus on institutional barriers and policies. This article deviates from such studies by framing the analysis in terms of a comparison between Muslim and non-Muslim white students in higher degree education institutions in N…
Countering violent extremism, governmentality and Australian Muslim youth as 'becoming terrorist
This article explores how a 'regime of truth' about Muslim youth has been historically produced through the underlying logic of Australia's counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism (CVE) policies and practices. The article is divided into three parts. I first look at how the pre-emptive logic of countering the 'becoming terrorist' constitutes young Australian Muslims. I then interrogate the way CVE has constituted Australian Muslims as …
Off script and indefensible
We have become increasingly aware of the importance of addressing diversity across media landscapes. Whilst we are still far from a genuine appreciation for difference, media outlets that view themselves as progressive understand the value of appearing diverse. This has meant that a number of Muslim voices have risen to prominence in recent years. Often these voices have attracted the title of ‘moderate Muslim’ as they are thought to represent a …
Islamophobia and everyday multiculturalism in Australia
This book explores Islamophobia in Australia, shifting attention from its victims to its perpetrators by examining the visceral, atavistic nature of people’s feelings and responses to the Muslim ‘other’ in everyday life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism sheds light on the problematisations of Muslims amongst Anglo and non-Anglo Australians, investigating the impact of whiteness on minorities’ various rea…
The Double Bind of Writing as an Australian Muslim Woman
I could have been rich years ago. Every Muslim woman writer knows this about herself. The Muslim woman as victim or escapee dominates the publishing world’s imaginings of Muslim women. Nothing titillates the literary world more than the Muslim woman “native informant” who bravely “bares all” to confess her journey from false consciousness to good liberal (preferably atheist) subject. In this article I share my experiences as a writer attempting t…
Islamophobia and Australian Muslim Political Consciousness in the War on Terror
This article analyses the forms of consciousness that inform Australian Muslim responses to Islamophobia in the context of the War on Terror, particularly since the emergence of Islamic State ('IS'). As my responses cover a plethora of political action, resistance and conduct, my sites of enquiry are specifically confined to the forms of consciousness that inform the tendency for key Muslim community organisations to issue condemnations of terror…
Lebanese Muslim
This article focuses on encounters between differently habituated bodies at ‘Bayside’, a popular Anglo-majority Australian coastal town. Based on in-depth interviews with locals, I show how banal speech acts, interpretations of encounters, corporeal attitudes and practices of exclusion construct the embodied behaviour and haptic space of Lebanese Muslims visitors as threatening and inferior, producing a racialised habitus of Lebanese Muslims. I e…
Countering violent extremism, governmentality and Australian Muslim youth as 'becoming terrorist
This article explores how a 'regime of truth' about Muslim youth has been historically produced through the underlying logic of Australia's counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism (CVE) policies and practices. The article is divided into three parts. I first look at how the pre-emptive logic of countering the 'becoming terrorist' constitutes young Australian Muslims. I then interrogate the way CVE has constituted Australian Muslims as …
Off script and indefensible
We have become increasingly aware of the importance of addressing diversity across media landscapes. Whilst we are still far from a genuine appreciation for difference, media outlets that view themselves as progressive understand the value of appearing diverse. This has meant that a number of Muslim voices have risen to prominence in recent years. Often these voices have attracted the title of ‘moderate Muslim’ as they are thought to represent a …
Islamophobia and Australian Muslim Political Consciousness in the War on Terror
This article analyses the forms of consciousness that inform Australian Muslim responses to Islamophobia in the context of the War on Terror, particularly since the emergence of Islamic State ('IS'). As my responses cover a plethora of political action, resistance and conduct, my sites of enquiry are specifically confined to the forms of consciousness that inform the tendency for key Muslim community organisations to issue condemnations of terror…
Lebanese Muslim
This article focuses on encounters between differently habituated bodies at ‘Bayside’, a popular Anglo-majority Australian coastal town. Based on in-depth interviews with locals, I show how banal speech acts, interpretations of encounters, corporeal attitudes and practices of exclusion construct the embodied behaviour and haptic space of Lebanese Muslims visitors as threatening and inferior, producing a racialised habitus of Lebanese Muslims. I e…
Negotiating Australian academia as a historically white settler colonial institution
In Australia, there is a dearth of research applying the theoretical lens of critical race theory to explore Muslim university students’ experiences in higher degree education institutions. The prevailing approach has been to focus on institutional barriers and policies. This article deviates from such studies by framing the analysis in terms of a comparison between Muslim and non-Muslim white students in higher degree education institutions in N…
The Double Bind of Writing as an Australian Muslim Woman
I could have been rich years ago. Every Muslim woman writer knows this about herself. The Muslim woman as victim or escapee dominates the publishing world’s imaginings of Muslim women. Nothing titillates the literary world more than the Muslim woman “native informant” who bravely “bares all” to confess her journey from false consciousness to good liberal (preferably atheist) subject. In this article I share my experiences as a writer attempting t…
Lebanese Muslim
This article focuses on encounters between differently habituated bodies at ‘Bayside’, a popular Anglo-majority Australian coastal town. Based on in-depth interviews with locals, I show how banal speech acts, interpretations of encounters, corporeal attitudes and practices of exclusion construct the embodied behaviour and haptic space of Lebanese Muslims visitors as threatening and inferior, producing a racialised habitus of Lebanese Muslims. I e…
Islamophobia and everyday multiculturalism in Australia
This book explores Islamophobia in Australia, shifting attention from its victims to its perpetrators by examining the visceral, atavistic nature of people’s feelings and responses to the Muslim ‘other’ in everyday life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism sheds light on the problematisations of Muslims amongst Anglo and non-Anglo Australians, investigating the impact of whiteness on minorities’ various rea…
The Double Bind of Writing as an Australian Muslim Woman
I could have been rich years ago. Every Muslim woman writer knows this about herself. The Muslim woman as victim or escapee dominates the publishing world’s imaginings of Muslim women. Nothing titillates the literary world more than the Muslim woman “native informant” who bravely “bares all” to confess her journey from false consciousness to good liberal (preferably atheist) subject. In this article I share my experiences as a writer attempting t…
Islamophobia and Australian Muslim Political Consciousness in the War on Terror
This article analyses the forms of consciousness that inform Australian Muslim responses to Islamophobia in the context of the War on Terror, particularly since the emergence of Islamic State ('IS'). As my responses cover a plethora of political action, resistance and conduct, my sites of enquiry are specifically confined to the forms of consciousness that inform the tendency for key Muslim community organisations to issue condemnations of terror…
Off script and indefensible
We have become increasingly aware of the importance of addressing diversity across media landscapes. Whilst we are still far from a genuine appreciation for difference, media outlets that view themselves as progressive understand the value of appearing diverse. This has meant that a number of Muslim voices have risen to prominence in recent years. Often these voices have attracted the title of ‘moderate Muslim’ as they are thought to represent a …
Countering violent extremism, governmentality and Australian Muslim youth as 'becoming terrorist
This article explores how a 'regime of truth' about Muslim youth has been historically produced through the underlying logic of Australia's counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism (CVE) policies and practices. The article is divided into three parts. I first look at how the pre-emptive logic of countering the 'becoming terrorist' constitutes young Australian Muslims. I then interrogate the way CVE has constituted Australian Muslims as …
Negotiating Australian academia as a historically white settler colonial institution
In Australia, there is a dearth of research applying the theoretical lens of critical race theory to explore Muslim university students’ experiences in higher degree education institutions. The prevailing approach has been to focus on institutional barriers and policies. This article deviates from such studies by framing the analysis in terms of a comparison between Muslim and non-Muslim white students in higher degree education institutions in N…
Muslim Solidarity with Palestine whilst Living on Stolen Land
This paper contextualises Muslim celebrations within a neoliberal understanding of politics and the consequent erasure of Indigenous identity. It traces the overlap of spectacles of Israeli brutality against Palestinians during Ramadan with official Ramadan and Eid celebrations in Australia when the Islamic concept of “ummah” is invoked to mobilise Muslim solidarity with Palestine. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, and drawing on Critical Ind…
Should we stay or should we go? Dilemmas arising from (new) corporate ownership of a digital public space
If a chauvinistic troll billionaire takes control of a digital platform, enabling hate speech and tailoring algorithms around their whims, how should higher education institutional accounts respond? To consider this question, our paper uses a collaborative listening approach to navigate diverse positionings and political imperatives: it presents both collective analysis and individual authored reflections from seven members (faculty and PhD stude…
Ceasefire Now
This zine emerged as a creative output of my Australian Research Council Future Fellowship project investigating and archiving Arab-Australian intersectional, decolonial, transnational, solidarity activism as a constitutive dimension of Australian political culture and social movement participation. I was inspired to create this zine through my immersion in a network of activists and academics responding to Israel's current war on Gaza. The zine …
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Islamophobia (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)