Islamophobia is a fluid neo-ideology built from reinterpreted historical material

Evidence

Islamophobia as ideology is therefore highly fluid and shifting, creatively interpreting and re-interpreting, shaping and re-shaping that which is already known in the social consensus, relevant for the ‘here and now’ as opposed to either the future or the past, balancing those reworked and reinterpreted historical ideologies of Muslims and Islam, whilst being shaped and contextualised by the wholly new symbolic forms, meanings and contexts within which today’s ideology operates, emphasised and reified in the contemporary period by both local and global influences and given voice to and disseminated through today’s globalised and mediatised environment. … With ideological content being contemporarily dynamic and fluid, continuities and interconnections with different historical and geographical contexts remain, thus refuting suggestions that ideologies are either entirely ‘new’ or entirely ‘historical’. … For any symbolic form to be given meaning, so ‘Muslims’ or ‘Islam’ or indeed both need to be identified and this is achieved through a constantly changing series of both independent and overlapping identifiers, attributes, categories, characteristics and qualities – the symbolic forms – that cut across such differentiable markers as race, ethnicity, theology, class, gender and so on. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 839

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Islamophobia as ideology: fluid, here-and-now, drawing on but not reducible to historical ideologies, overlapping with racism.
• XREF: The ‘fluid and shifting neo-ideology’ framing echoes Allen’s later claim that Islamophobia conceptualized as race-linked overlaps with new racism in the BNP context. — connects to: Retitling recycled scholarship from ‘Revolt’ to ‘Return of Islam’ serves ideological ends; The Islamophobia concept was born partly from Runnymede’s earlier antisemitism work — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 692; Eternalised historical stereotypes render Islamophobia without a discernible beginning or end — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 887 (+8 more)

Related

• Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.87)
• Eternalised historical stereotypes render Islamophobia without a discernible beginning or end (similarity 0.86)
• Today’s Islamophobia is continuous with, not unique from, historical precedent (similarity 0.86)
• History illuminates current Islamophobia but not as a fixed or reliably accurate backdrop (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia centers on recognition of Muslim-ness and its ideological meaning (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia operates through shared cultural meaning-making structures that predate any current event (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia spans every thought and deed referencing Muslims or Islam (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia is best understood as context-dependent plural phenomena (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia should be analyzed as power-relations rather than as error about Islam. (similarity 0.83)
• Retitling recycled scholarship from ‘Revolt’ to ‘Return of Islam’ serves ideological ends (similarity 0.83)
• Contested definitions of Islamophobia deepen the rift over its existence (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia need not rest on false beliefs about Islam or Muslims. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia’s contestation stems from a failure to define or conceptualise it. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Eternalised historical stereotypes render Islamophobia without a discernible beginning or end #expands (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 887
• History illuminates current Islamophobia but not as a fixed or reliably accurate backdrop #qualifies (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 203
• Today’s Islamophobia is continuous with, not unique from, historical precedent #qualifies (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 888
• Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. #expands (0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 910
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism #expands (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 910