Established definitions of Islamophobia resist replacement despite their inadequacy

Evidence

What with the credibility and authority they have acquired – quite inappropriately this book justifiably argues and concludes – any process of substitution or replacement will be extremely difficult. Nonetheless, what might be at least begun is the slow and possibly laborious process of Islamophobia being theoretically and conceptually re-evaluated, re-interpreted, re-contextualised and even just re-questioned: processes that as regards Islamophobia have somehow been overlooked for over a decade or more. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 921

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does Allen specify why the Runnymede model acquired such durable authority, and what institutional interests sustain it?
• XREF: connects to: Definitions of Islamophobia double as policy interventions, not neutral analysis — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 102; The term Islamophobia demands a better-grounded, contestable definition — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 102; the MOC “Making the Muslim Enemy: How Islamophobia Is Manufactured, Defined, and Contested”

Related

• Definitions of Islamophobia double as policy interventions, not neutral analysis (similarity 0.90)
• The Runnymede model so dominated Islamophobia discourse that it escaped critical scrutiny (similarity 0.88)
• The Runnymede model is self-reinforcing and theoretically weak (similarity 0.88)
• The Runnymede report’s definition is self-reinforcing and theoretically weak (similarity 0.88)
• The term Islamophobia demands a better-grounded, contestable definition (similarity 0.87)
• Runnymede’s model failed to distinguish Islamophobia from other similar phenomena (similarity 0.87)
• Defining Islamophobia as ‘unfounded’ makes its denial subjectively defensible (similarity 0.87)
• Efforts to define Islam are what define understanding of Islamophobia (similarity 0.86)
• Runnymede’s 1997 definition founded but did not fix the field’s usage (similarity 0.86)
• Agreeing on a definition of Islamophobia is a precondition for accountability. (similarity 0.85)
• The Runnymede definition conflates Islamophobia’s effects with its core (similarity 0.85)
• Definitions of Islamophobia are political instruments tied to policy responses (similarity 0.85)
• The Islamophobia definition is a policy instrument, not merely analysis (similarity 0.85)
• Contested definitions of Islamophobia deepen the rift over its existence (similarity 0.85)
• The Runnymede model essentialises Muslims and reduces Islam. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• The term Islamophobia demands a better-grounded, contestable definition #expands (0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 102