Damian Breen
Biographic Data
| ID | 668706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damian Breen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damian |
| FAMILY NAME | Breen |
| SIGNATURE | BREEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9417-1027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Muslims and the Covid-19 pandemic: Myth-busting the demonisation of Muslim communities
Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice
This article presents a rationale and strategy for bringing urgent attention to ‘minority’, ‘excluded’, and ‘marginalised’ perspectives within contemporary mainstream criminology. Russell (2022) has previously called for the development of ‘Black criminology’, whilst Phillips and Bowling (2003) further argued that there is a need to develop ‘minority perspectives’ within mainstream criminology. In allyship with these traditions, this article appl…
Islam and faith in times of crisis: Religious observance and Muslim communities in the pandemic
This article explores the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on Muslims living in Birmingham, UK on religious observance and faith in times of crisis. This article presents qualitative insights into participants experiences of the impacts of the pandemic and the national measures taken on their religious observance including impacts around prayer and worship, the use of technologies to mediate faith practice, communal worship and wellbeing, worship…
Securing whiteness: Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the securitization of Muslims in education
This article revisits Critical Race Theory and brings it’s explanatory capacity to bear on the contemporary racialization of Muslims in Europe, most specifically the experience of British Muslim communities in education. The article argues that CRT can provide a theoretically fruitful means of gauging the ways in which anti-Muslim discrimination might be engendered through various strategies around securitization. In a social and political contex…
Critical Race Theory, policy rhetoric and outcomes: The case of Muslim schools in Britain
The expansion of state-funded Muslim schools in Britain since 1998 has developed against a backdrop of sustained public political rhetoric around the wider position of British Muslims in both political and educational contexts. This article explores the public policy rhetoric around Muslim schools under New Labour and the subsequent Coalition and Conservative governments and compares how these narratives align with outcomes in terms of numbers of…
Faith in Education: A tribute to Terence McLaughlin
Edited by Graham Haydon (Institute of Education, London, 2009), 146 pp., £15.99 (pbk), ISBN 978 0 85473 853 3 Faith in Education: A tribute to Terence McLaughlin aims to offer a tribute to his work
Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice
This article presents a rationale and strategy for bringing urgent attention to ‘minority’, ‘excluded’, and ‘marginalised’ perspectives within contemporary mainstream criminology. Russell (2022) has previously called for the development of ‘Black criminology’, whilst Phillips and Bowling (2003) further argued that there is a need to develop ‘minority perspectives’ within mainstream criminology. In allyship with these traditions, this article appl…
Critical Race Theory, policy rhetoric and outcomes: The case of Muslim schools in Britain
The expansion of state-funded Muslim schools in Britain since 1998 has developed against a backdrop of sustained public political rhetoric around the wider position of British Muslims in both political and educational contexts. This article explores the public policy rhetoric around Muslim schools under New Labour and the subsequent Coalition and Conservative governments and compares how these narratives align with outcomes in terms of numbers of…
Faith in Education: A tribute to Terence McLaughlin
Edited by Graham Haydon (Institute of Education, London, 2009), 146 pp., £15.99 (pbk), ISBN 978 0 85473 853 3 Faith in Education: A tribute to Terence McLaughlin aims to offer a tribute to his work
Critical Race Theory, policy rhetoric and outcomes: The case of Muslim schools in Britain
The expansion of state-funded Muslim schools in Britain since 1998 has developed against a backdrop of sustained public political rhetoric around the wider position of British Muslims in both political and educational contexts. This article explores the public policy rhetoric around Muslim schools under New Labour and the subsequent Coalition and Conservative governments and compares how these narratives align with outcomes in terms of numbers of…
Securing whiteness: Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the securitization of Muslims in education
This article revisits Critical Race Theory and brings it’s explanatory capacity to bear on the contemporary racialization of Muslims in Europe, most specifically the experience of British Muslim communities in education. The article argues that CRT can provide a theoretically fruitful means of gauging the ways in which anti-Muslim discrimination might be engendered through various strategies around securitization. In a social and political contex…
Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice
This article presents a rationale and strategy for bringing urgent attention to ‘minority’, ‘excluded’, and ‘marginalised’ perspectives within contemporary mainstream criminology. Russell (2022) has previously called for the development of ‘Black criminology’, whilst Phillips and Bowling (2003) further argued that there is a need to develop ‘minority perspectives’ within mainstream criminology. In allyship with these traditions, this article appl…
Islam and faith in times of crisis: Religious observance and Muslim communities in the pandemic
This article explores the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on Muslims living in Birmingham, UK on religious observance and faith in times of crisis. This article presents qualitative insights into participants experiences of the impacts of the pandemic and the national measures taken on their religious observance including impacts around prayer and worship, the use of technologies to mediate faith practice, communal worship and wellbeing, worship…
Muslims and the Covid-19 pandemic: Myth-busting the demonisation of Muslim communities
Sociology (5 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Faith (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Critical race theory (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)