We had to hide we're Muslim

Ambient fear, Islamic schools and the geographies of race and religion

Bibliographic Data

ID2925837
AuthorsKalervo N Gulson (0000-0002-3581-9935, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author), P Taylor Webb (0000-0003-1207-4333, University of British Columbia)
Year2013
Volume34
Issue4
Pages628-641
Publication date2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2013.822623
OpenAlexW2041141617
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited22

Over the past 30 years, there has been virulent urban politics surrounding the provision of government-funded Islamic K-12 schooling in suburban south-western Sydney, Australia. In this paper, drawing on examples of local government opposition to Islamic schools, we argue that race and religion constitute contestations of urban space around the establishment of government-funded Islamic schools. We argue that these particular contestations arise from the changing nature of, and historical continuities between, urban politics, education, Islamophobia and racialisation, in pre-9/11 and post-9/11 Australia. The politics surrounding Islamic schools reveals a coded urban politics that can be understood by paying attention to the ambiance of racialised-religious fears produced – in part – by the policies of government-funding of non-secular education

Geography · Islam · Islamophobia · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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