Devils from our past: liberal Islamophobia in Austria as historicist racism
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In: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 42, No. 16, 10.12.2019, p. 159-176.
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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 -