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When Free Speech Disrupts Diversity Initiatives: What We Value and What We Do Not [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this essay, I argue that the debate on free speech as pushed by the conservative right is a strategic apparatus to undermine the various diversity initiatives on college and university campuses. While supporters of the right wing extremists around the
Dutt-Ballerstadt, Reshmi
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“Only the Blue‐Eyed Ones”: How Refugees' Origin and Gender Affect Selective Solidarity Through Perceived Similarity and Threat

open access: yesJournal of Social Issues, Volume 81, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates social psychological mechanisms underlying selective solidarity with refugees in two experimental studies conducted in Germany. We hypothesized, in line with the geopolitics of racialization and masculinization of refugees, and rooted in social–psychological theories, that refugee origin and gender affect expressions of
Tijana Karić   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Welcome to the Dark Side: Use of Humour in Indoctrinating to Extremist Ideologies

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT The paper argues that humour can be very effective in disseminating extremist ideologies, in part because of humour's inherent capacity to hinder critical reflection and in part because humour requires bringing together two conflicting frames of interpretation. With extremist humour, the other frame needed to make sense of what is funny is the
Jani Sinokki
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence and ideology: moderating the critique of media Islamophobia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Recent studies of British media coverage of Islam, influenced by Said’s critique of ‘Orientalism’, appear to have established that ‘Islamophobic’ stereotyping is highly characteristic of that coverage.
Brown, Lorraine, Richards, Barry
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Hindu Nationalism emerging from narcissism of minor differences in Indo‐Bangladesh borderlands: A gendered narration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 200-213, September 2025.
Abstract The Sundarbans as a region is shared between Bangladesh (60%) and India (40%) and forms an intriguing geography to understand not only the consequences of macro‐political landmarks such as the partition, it is an arable field to explore the intersections of people, history, and politics‐ with a particular recognition of the constructions ...
Sneha Roy
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic shaming, the discourse of (sub)standard English, and religiolinguistic ideologies in Indian media

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 2, August 2025.
Abstract This article examines linguistic shaming behaviors, focusing on the case of an Indian news media platform where newsreaders commented on and criticized a Muslim college lecturer for ‘errors’ in her handwritten resignation letter in English.
Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, M. Obaidul Hamid
wiley   +1 more source

The Right to be Human:How do Muslim Women talk about Human Rights and Religious Freedoms in Britain? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article examines existing literature and data from qualitative fieldwork with Muslim women in Britain to analyse their narratives of human rights and freedom, as they live within plural European contexts. In scared, securitised and polarised Europe,
Cheruvallil-Contractor, Sariya
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Muslims and Non‐Muslims: In Conflict or Harmony With Each Other? Conflict‐Related Ingroup Norms Shape Threat Effects on Intergroup Behavioural Intentions

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 35, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Threat increases ethnocentric motivation and can thus trigger hostile intergroup behaviour. However, ingroup norms–whether promoting conflict or positive intergroup relations–should moderate these effects, with positive (vs. conflict) norms reducing, eliminating, or even reversing intergroup hostility following threat.
Fabian M. Hess   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Crisis of Secularism: How Democracy Fuels Moral Panics and Religious Fundamentalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
While identifying humanity’s most cherished ideals, there is one notion that ultimately supplants all others: the notion of freedom. The concept itself and its encompassing rhetoric have been utilized ad nauseam by virtually all contemporary social ...
Ilic, Pedja
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Völkisch vs. catholic islamophobia in Spain: The conflict between racial and religious understandings of muslim identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article sets out to demonstrate that considering Islamophobia as a form of racism prevents us from fully grasping the complexity of this phenomenon. The author contends that there are different types of Islamophobia and while some are racist, others
Bravo López, Fernando
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