Yearbook for Islamophobia Research

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Yearbook for Islamophobia Research

Area of ​​Expertise Islamic Studies
language German English
publishing company New Academic Press (Austria)
Headquarters Vienna
First edition 2010
Frequency of publication yearly
editor Farid Hafez
ZDB 2573716-8

The yearbook for research on Islamophobia has been published annually since 2010 and is subject to a peer review process. The editor is Farid Hafez from the Political Science Department at the University of Salzburg . The scientific advisory board includes a. Iman Attia , Klaus J. Bade , Wolfgang Benz , John Bunzl , Fritz Hausjell , Heinrich Neisser , Anton Pelinka and Damir Skenderovic . The yearbook is interdisciplinary and brings together contributions from all scientific disciplines. A specific theory school is not specified, authors can submit their contributions on exclusion under one of the common categories such as Islamophobia , neo-racism , cultural racism , orientalism and discrimination against Muslims and related topics.

Since the 2015 edition, the yearbook has been subjected to a double blind peer review , which is intended to ensure the academic quality of the journal. In addition, the yearbook has been bilingual since 2015 , with contributions being offered in German and English.

reception

The Wiener Zeitung received the first issue positively and summarizes the articles. The newspaper devotes itself to an article on the FPÖ's hostility towards Islam and quotes Hafez from it as saying that "the media could generate Islamophobia , " especially among people who have never had personal contact with Muslims. “The Austrian Standard comments benevolently:“ As the scientific treatment of Islamophobia is more recent, there are few 'specialists' in every country whose names appear again and again in publications. In Austria that is Farid Hafez. ”In the following, the individual essays are briefly discussed and the article on the Islamophobic murder of Marwa El-Sherbini in Dresden in 2009 is explicitly recommended. In a short review, the press highlights an article that "shows how Islamophobia is hidden behind the friendlier term Islamic criticism". The Salzburger Nachrichten reports that Hafez “succeeded with the first yearbook, published in 2010, to initiate a long-term scientific observation of fears and prejudices against 'Islam'”. The German news magazine Der Spiegel got off badly in the 2011 yearbook.

Natalie Wohlleben notes in her reception in the portal for political science for the 2012 yearbook that “the articles focus less on the everyday life of Muslims in Europe, but on the phenomenon of Islamophobia in its theoretical context”. This would give the impression that Islamophobia "as a current form of racism that seems to be widespread in large parts of the European population." However, "a contribution with reliable figures with which the phenomenon could have been specifically classified" would be missing .

In 2018, Armin Pfahl-Traughber noted in the Humanist Press Service that the yearbook worked “with a lack of selectivity” and that “critical aspects of understanding Islamophobia are not addressed at all”. Islamophobia my fear of Islam, but in the 2017 yearbook it is more likely to be interpreted as “hostility towards Muslims”.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Farid Hafez , University of Salzburg
  2. ↑ From Islamophobia to Islamism , in: Wiener Zeitung 142, July 24, 2010. P. 17.
  3. ↑ Gudrun Harrer : The fear of the "muscle blood" , in: Der Standard , August 28, 2010. P. 43 (A11)
  4. ↑ What is Islamophobia? , in: Die Presse , July 26, 2010. p. 22.
  5. ↑ Ban on minarets and stereotypes , in: Salzburger Nachrichten 120, May 24, 2011. P. 11.
  6. ↑ Yearbook for Islamophobia Research 2012 pw-portal.de
  7. ^ The "Yearbook for Islamophobia Research" - with a lack of selectivity hpd.de, June 27, 2018