TY - JOUR

T1 - Devils from our past

T2 - liberal Islamophobia in Austria as historicist racism

AU - Opratko, Benjamin

N1 - This work was supported by Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: [DOC-Stipendium] and by the Open Access Publishing Fund of the University of Vienna. Publisher Copyright: © 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

PY - 2019/12/10

Y1 - 2019/12/10

N2 - This paper examines discourses of liberal Islamophobia in Austria, analysing interviews with journalists from national newspapers, magazines and TV station. Using a theoretical framework that combines a Gramscian analysis with methods of discourse analysis, it identifies “temporalization” as an effective discursive mechanism in the construction of the Muslim “Other” as a “folk devil”. It argues that liberal Islamophobia works as a historicist racism, which allows differently positioned subjects to invest into, and reproduce, a mythical space of representation where the Muslim “Other” figures as a “devil from our past”, embodying everything Austrian society has supposedly done away with in the years of political reform after 1968.

AB - This paper examines discourses of liberal Islamophobia in Austria, analysing interviews with journalists from national newspapers, magazines and TV station. Using a theoretical framework that combines a Gramscian analysis with methods of discourse analysis, it identifies “temporalization” as an effective discursive mechanism in the construction of the Muslim “Other” as a “folk devil”. It argues that liberal Islamophobia works as a historicist racism, which allows differently positioned subjects to invest into, and reproduce, a mythical space of representation where the Muslim “Other” figures as a “devil from our past”, embodying everything Austrian society has supposedly done away with in the years of political reform after 1968.

KW - Austria

KW - hegemony

KW - historicist racism

KW - Islamophobia

KW - liberalism

KW - Muslims

KW - Stuart Hall

KW - Sociology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074241664&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2019.1635258

DO - 10.1080/01419870.2019.1635258

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85074241664

VL - 42

SP - 159

EP - 176

JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies

JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies

SN - 0141-9870

IS - 16

ER -