Table Of ContentIslamophobia and Surveillance
The War on Terror has established a new global order of political
structures, legislation, and technologies designed to spy on the
world’s Muslims. This book explains the origins and trajectories of
this political system.
The contributors argue that a constellation of Western ideas about
Muslims have evolved over time to produce an insatiable desire for
all-pervasive, ever-expanding surveillance in our contemporary
moment. The book posits that the surveillance order is not, however,
only the result of conceptions of Muslims. It is, rather, the outcome of
centuries of European thought regarding religion, governance, and
revolution. Islamophobia and Surveillance traverses the existential
desire for wakeful vigilance, the religious wars of early modern
Europe, colonial India, the Balkan frontier of the EU, and the walls of
the United States-Mexico border.
The consequences of the new surveillance order transcend the
West’s Muslim Question and threaten the very existence of the
liberal democratic state. This book will, therefore, be of interest to
those studying a range of subjects related to international co-
operation, modern political systems, and security studies, as well as
Islamophobia.
Islamophobia and Surveillance was originally published as a
special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
James Renton is Professor of History at Edge Hill University, UK,
and Academic Advisor at MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism
at the European University Institute. He is the co-editor, with Ben
Gidley, of Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared
Story? (2017).
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editors:
Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, UK
John Solomos, University of Warwick, UK
The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John
Stone to provide an international forum for high quality research on
race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study
of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal subfield of
sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening
period the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core
theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the
dissemination of the latest empirical research.
It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the
development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial
Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of
countries and fields of scholarship, and crosses disciplinary
boundaries. It is now available in both printed and electronic form.
Since 2015 it has published 15 issues per year, three of which are
dedicated to Ethnic and Racial Studies Review offering expert
guidance to the latest research through the publication of book
reviews, symposia and discussion pieces, including reviews of work
in languages other than English.
The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range
of the journal’s special issues. These special issues are an important
contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science
academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that
are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial
Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the
special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards
possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of
books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and
students from across the social science disciplines to engage with
the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Most recent titles in the series include:
Rethinking Reconciliation and Transitional Justice After
Conflict
Edited by James Hughes and Denisa Kostovicova
Migration and Race in Europe
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Race and Crisis
Edited by Suman Gupta and Satnam Virdee
Why Do We Still Talk About Race?
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Islamophobia and Surveillance
Genealogies of a Global Order
Edited by James Renton
Super-Diversity in Everyday Life
Edited by Jan Willem Duyvendak, Nancy Foner and Philip Kasinitz
The Mechanisms of Racialization Beyond the Black/White
Binary
Edited by Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino and Devon R. Goss
Islamophobia and Surveillance
Genealogies of a Global Order
Edited by
James Renton
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Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Citation Information
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The global order of Muslim surveillance and its
thought architecture
James Renton
1. Oversight
Gil Anidjar
2. The figure of the fanatic: a rebel against Christian sovereignty
James Renton
3. Good Jew, bad Jew...good Muslim, bad Muslim: “managing”
Europe’s others
Anya Topolski
4. The picture, the parable, the performance and the sword:
secularism’s demographic imperatives
Rashna Darius Nicholson
5. Arab others at European borders: racializing religion and
refugees along the Balkan Route
Piro Rexhepi
6. Islamophobia and the making of Latinos/as into terrorist threats
Luis A. Romero and Amina Zarrugh
Index
For Michael and Clem
