Islamophobia’s ideological content is sustained by five distinct modes of operation

Evidence

To achieve this, the second component of Islamophobia is the ‘modes of operation’ through which meaning is sustained and perpetuated. It is imperative to stress though, that modes of operation are not equitable with the symbolic forms through which Muslims and Islam are either identified or recognised. The modes of operation relevant to Islamophobia therefore include: legitimating, dissimulation, unification, fragmentation and reification, each of which is made up of a range of strategies that contribute to the sustaining and perpetuating of such meaning including: rationalisation, universalisation and narrativisation; displacement, euphemisation and trope; standardisation and the symbolisation of unity; differentiation and the expurgation of the Other; naturalisation, eternalisation and passivisation respectively. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 902

Categorization

• DEFINE: Borrows Thompson’s five modes of ideology (legitimation, dissimulation, unification, fragmentation, reification) and their strategies, applied here to Islamophobia.
• XREF: Directly imports John B. Thompson’s analytical framework from ‘Ideology and Modern Culture’ — a strong theoretical scaffolding for the definition. — connects to: Anti-Muslim mobilizations form a transnational movement with distinct ideology and policy reach. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 545; Islamophobic ideology self-perpetuates as natural and normative — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 836; Thompson’s five modes of ideological operation apply to Islamophobia — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 843 (+5 more)

Related

• Islamophobia’s meaning is sustained through five named modes of operation. (similarity 0.94)
• Thompson’s five modes of ideological operation apply to Islamophobia (similarity 0.92)
• Islamophobia comprises ideology, modes of operation, and exclusionary practices (similarity 0.90)
• Islamophobia is defined through Thompson’s neutral conception of ideology (similarity 0.85)
• Fragmenting Muslims into moderates and extremists disseminates Islamophobic ideology as effectively as unifying them. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices (similarity 0.83)
• Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobic ideology self-perpetuates as natural and normative (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.81)
• Conceptualizing Islamophobia must separate its forms from the phenomenon itself (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia is best understood as context-dependent plural phenomena (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia should be analyzed as power-relations rather than as error about Islam. (similarity 0.80)
• Normalization of anti-Muslim ideas produces a morally self-justifying rationalism (similarity 0.79)
• Context-specific symbolic forms can share identical underlying operative modes (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Four conceptual moves permit the de-racialization of Islamophobia #responds-to (0.72) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 165