Othering Islam: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United . de l'Homme, Paris, France, June 2-3 2006

ISBN 10: 1888024240 / ISBN 13: 9781888024241

Published by Ahead Publishing House (Imprint: Okcir Press), 2006

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Title: Othering Islam: Proceedings of the ...

Publisher: Ahead Publishing House (Imprint: Okcir Press)

Publication Date: 2006

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This Fall 2006 (V, 1) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge on "Othering Islam" presents the results of an international conference on "The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: The Case of Islamophobia" organized by Ramón Grosfoguel and Eric Mielants at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH) in Paris, France, on June 2- 3, 2006. Topics covered are: "Probing Islamophobia," "The Long-Durée Entanglement Between Islamophobia and Racism in the Modern/Colonial Capitalist/Patriarchal World-System: An Introduction," "Islamophobia/Hispanophobia: The (Re) Configuration of the Racial Imperial/Colonial Matrix," "How Washington's 'War on Terror' Became Everyone's: Islamophobia and the Impact of September 11 on the Political Terrain of South and Southeast Asia," "Militarization, Globalization, and Islamist Social Movements: How Today's Ideology of Islamophobia Fuels Militant Islam," "Muslim Responses to Integration Demands in the Netherlands since 9/11," "No Race to the Swift: Negotiating Racial Identity in Past and Present Eastern Europe," "Life in Samarkand: Caucasus and Central Asia vis-à-vis Russia, the West, and Islam." Contributors include: Ramón Grosfoguel (also as journal issue guest editor), Eric Mielants (also as journal issue guest editor), Walter D. Mignolo, Farish A. Noor, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, Abdulkader Tayob, Manuela Boatcã, Madina Tlostanova, and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi (also as journal editor-in-chief). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal's Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR's homepage.

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Ramon Grosfoguel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of "The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century "(2002), "Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York "(2001), and "Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism "(1997). He is a research associate of the Maison des Science de l'Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center in New York.