Ep. 4: On Antisemitism and Islamophobia - Processes & Histories of Racialisation by Undersong - Race and Conversations Other-wise published on 2021-05-03T08:25:47Z In this episode, Nasar Meer speaks to Anya Topolski and Ben Gidley about their efforts to think through antisemitism and islamophobia together. Their work engages with the history of racialisation in Europe, that has shaped current framings of 'the Jew' and 'the Muslim', and in turn, contemporary forms of antisemitism and islamophobia. All references, authors, and thinkers mentioned in this episode can be found below in the podcast notes. .................................................................................................... Anya Topolski is an associate professor in ethics and political philosophy at the Radboud University Nijmegen, where she researches in the field of critical philosophy of race and focuses on the race-religion intersection in Europe. At the Ethics and Politics Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, she is currently the principle investigator for the Race-Religion Constellation Project and coordinator of the Race, religion, Secularism Network. Ben Gidley is a senior lecturer at the Department of Psychosocial Studies, at Birkbeck, University of London. His research engages with the question of how we live together with difference and explores the role of British Jews in the wider European diaspora, as well as in the history and politics of British multiculture. ......................................................................................................... Podcast notes: Sylvia Wynter Encounters Project: https://www.mmg.mpg.de/640536/encounters-ora-joint-research-project Brendon Mcgeever David Feldman Les Back Paul Gilroy IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org Amos Goldberg Franz Fanon Walter Mignolo Gil Anidijar James Renton Gidley, Ben & James Renton (Eds.) 2017. Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe – A Shared History?: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137412997 Brian Klug: https://www.jmberlin.de/sites/default/files/antisemitism-in-europe-today_2-klug.pdf Hannah Arendt Butler, Judith. 2009. Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? Wekker, Gloria. 2016. White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Heng, Geraldine. 2018. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages. Lindsay Kaplan Jansen Y, Meer N. Introduction: Genealogies of ‘Jews’ and ‘Muslims’: Social imaginaries in the race–religion nexus. Patterns of Prejudice. 2020;54(1-2):1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2019.1696046 Meer N. Racialization and religion: race, culture and difference in the study of antisemitism and Islamophobia. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2012 Nov 12;36(3):385-398. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2013.734392 Meer N, Noorani T. A sociological comparison of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiment in Britain. The Sociological Review. 2008 May 1;56(2):195-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00784.x .................................................................................................... The title music of this podcast is "Origin Funk" by Ketsa, provided under the Creative Commons license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Genre Learning
