Over the past few days Islamophobic, racist, and fascist riots have been occuring across the UK. These riots must not be viewed solely as a far-right response to the recent horrific event in Southport, but rather as part of sustained anti-migrant and anti- Muslim violence and rhetoric that has become normalised in UK society. At the same time, the presence of anti-racist protesters has been empowering and heartening.

To support this, we have started a working document with resources on racism, Islamophobia, and Muslim Geographies. By doing so, we hope to help foster greater understanding, solidarity, and action against Islamophobia and all forms of racism. This resource list is far from exhaustive, so please feel free to contact us via raceingeography@gmail.com to help us update the document.

Last updated 12 August 2024.

Books and Reports

El-Tayeb, F (2011) European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 

Fekete, L (2009) A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe. London: Pluto Press. 

Gross-Wyrtzen, L. and Z. R. El Yacoubi. 2024. “Externalizing otherness: The racialization of belonging in the Morocco-EU border.” Geoforum 155: 1-8.

Gross-Wyrtzen, L. 2023. “’There is no race here’: OnBlackness, slavery and erasure in North Africa and North African Studies.” Journal of North African Studies 28(3): 635-665.

Haritaworn, J (2015) Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places. London: Pluto Press. 

Joseph-Salisbury, R (2020) Race and Racism in Secondary Schools. (Report). The Runnymede Trust.

Joseph-Salisbury, R and Connelly, L (2021) Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (Open Access)

Lean, N (2012) The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims. London: Pluto Press.

Mahfouz, S (2017) The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write. London: Saqi.

Manzoor-Khan, S (2022) Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia. London: Pluto Press. 

Morsi, Y (2017) Radical Skin, Moderate Masks. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

Massoumi, N, Mills, T, Miller, D (2017) What is Islamophobia? Racism, Social Movements and the State. London: Pluto Press. 

Mondon, A, Winter, A (2020) Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream. London: Verso. 

Mondon , A., & Winter, A. (2024). Creating a crisis: Immigration, racism and the 2024 general election. Runnymede Trust . https://assets-global.website-files.com/61488f992b58e687f1108c7c/65a9687e61baa242752cf91c_Runnymede%20Reactionary%20Democracy%20briefing%20v2.pdf

Tyrer, D (2013) The Politics of Islamophobia: Race, Power and Fantasy. London: Pluto Press. 

The Runnymede Trust (1997) Islamophobia: A challenge for us all. (Report)

Winter, A. (2024). Briefing: Islamophobia and Antisemitism. Community Policy Forum. https://communitypolicyforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Islamophobia-and-Antisemitism.pdf

Articles

Abbas, T., Awan, I., & Marsden, J. (2023). Pushed to the edge: the consequences of the ‘prevent duty’in de-radicalising pre-crime thought among British Muslim university students. Race Ethnicity and Education, 26(6), 719-734.

Allen, C., & Isakjee, A. (2014). Controversy, Islam and politics: an exploration of the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ affair through the eyes of British Muslim elites. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38(11), 1852–1867. 

Allouache, Y. A. (2023). Muslim geographies, positionality, and ways of knowing migration. Area, 55(3), 381-389.

Akhter, M. (2023). Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective. Dialogues in Human Geography, 13(3), 367-371.

Begum, H. (2008). Geographies of inclusion/exclusion: British Muslim women in the East End of London. Sociological Research Online, 13(5), 91-101.

Dunn, K., & Hopkins, P. (2016). The geographies of everyday Muslim life in the West. Australian Geographer, 47(3), 255-260.

Dwyer, C. (2008). The geographies of veiling: Muslim women in Britain. Geography, 93(3), 140-147.

Dwyer, C. (1999). Contradictions of community: questions of identity for young British Muslim women. Environment and Planning A, 31(1), 53-68.

Elliott-Cooper, A. (2018). The struggle that cannot be named: Violence, space and the re-articulation of anti-racism in post-Duggan Britain. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(14), 2445-2463.

Esson, J., & Last, A. (2020). Anti‐racist learning and teaching in British geography. Area, 52(4), 668-677.

Fernandez, S. (2018). The geographies of prevent: the transformation of the Muslim home into a pre-crime space. Journal of Muslims in Europe, 7(2), 167-189. Available here 

Fritzsche, L., & Nelson, L. (2020). Refugee resettlement, place, and the politics of Islamophobia. Social & Cultural Geography, 21(4), 508-526.

Grosfoguel, R. (2016). What is racism?. Journal of World-Systems Research, 22(1), 9-15.

Hopkins, P. (2020). Social geography II: Islamophobia, transphobia, and sizism. Progress in Human Geography, 44(3), 583-594.

Hopkins, P. (2024). Practising anti-Islamophobic geographies. Space and Polity, 1-19.

Isakjee, A. (2016). Dissonant belongings: The evolving spatial identities of young Muslim men in the UK. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 48(7), 1337-1353.

Isakjee, A., & Carroll, B. (2019). Blood, body and belonging: the geographies of halal food consumption in the UK. Social & Cultural Geography, 22(4), 581–602. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2019.1601247

Ince, A. (2019). Fragments of an anti‐fascist geography: Interrogating racism, nationalism, and state power. Geography compass, 13(3), e12420.

Johnson, A. (2017). Getting comfortable to feel at home: Clothing practices of Black Muslim women in Britain. Gender, Place & Culture, 24(2), 274-287.

Kapinga, L., van Hoven, B., Bock, B. B., & Hopkins, P. (2023). Young Muslims’ religious identities in relation to places beyond the UK: a qualitative map-making technique in Newcastle upon Tyne. Children’s Geographies, 21(4), 609-623.

Najib, K. (2024). Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia. Dialogues in Human Geography, 20438206241262512.

Najib, K., & Teeple Hopkins, C. (2020). Geographies of islamophobia. Social & Cultural Geography, 21(4), 449-457.

Nassar, A. (2023). Decentring whiteness in engaging Muslim geographies. Dialogues in Human Geography, 13(3), 359-362.

McGinty, A. M., Sziarto, K., & Seymour-Jorn, C. (2013). Researching within and against Islamophobia: A collaboration project with Muslim communities. Social & Cultural Geography, 14(1), 1-22.

Mills, A., & Gökarıksel, B. (2014). Provincializing geographies of religion: Muslim identities beyond the ‘West’. Geography Compass, 8(12), 902-914.

Mohammad, R. (2013). Making gender ma (r) king place: Youthful British Pakistani Muslim women’s narratives of urban space. Environment and Planning A, 45(8), 1802-1822.

Phillips, D. (2015). Claiming spaces: British Muslim negotiations of urban citizenship in an era of new migration. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 40(1), 62-74.

Qurashi, F. (2018). The Prevent strategy and the UK ‘war on terror’: embedding infrastructures of surveillance in Muslim communities. Palgrave Communications, 4(1), 1-13.

Sayyid, S. and Vakil, A. (2018) Defining Islamophobia. Critical Muslim Studies.

Schenk, C. G., Gökarıksel, B., & Behzadi, N. E. (2022). Security, violence, and mobility: The embodied and everyday politics of negotiating Muslim femininities. Political Geography, 94, 102597.

Sidaway, J. D. (2023). A manifesto for critical Muslim geographies. Dialogues in Human Geography, 13(3), 387-391. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231195668

Umar, S. (2021). The “Other” Muslim: Spatial-Temporal Cartographies of the Gendered Muslim World. Religion and Gender, 11(1), 113-120.

Warren, S. (2017). Pluralising the walking interview: Researching (im) mobilities with Muslim women. Social & Cultural Geography, 18(6), 786-807.

Warren, S. (2019). # YourAverageMuslim: Ruptural geopolitics of British Muslim women’s media and fashion. Political Geography, 69, 118-127.

Winter, C. (2023). The geography GCSE curriculum in England: a white curriculum of deceit. Whiteness and Education, 8(2), 313-331.

Younis, T., & Jadhav, S. (2019). Keeping our mouths shut: The fear and racialized self-censorship of British healthcare professionals in PREVENT training. Culture, medicine, and psychiatry, 43, 404-424.

Younis, T., & Jadhav, S. (2020). Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT’s counter‐radicalisation policy. Sociology of Health & Illness, 42(3), 610-626.

Younis, T. (2021). The psychologisation of counter-extremism: unpacking PREVENT. Race & Class, 62(3), 37-60.

Younis, T. (2021). Politicizing Muslim Mental Health. Journal of Muslim Mental Health, 15(1).

Other media

Building the Anti-Racist Classroom https://barcworkshop.org/resources/

Interview with Aishah Zahoor who was awarded third place in the latest RACE UG Dissertation Prize: https://raceingeography.org/2023/04/04/interview-with-aishah-zahoor-on-gender-geopolitics-and-geographical-imaginaries/

Interview with Dr. Aaron Winter on right wing extremism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bXHIQzvLZo

Farah Elahi on Islamophobia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIK45VRfcGA

On The Question of Empire – With Professor Alan Lester – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0I7x0Cm4k

The Right Wingers Whose Lies Sparked a Riot, Novara Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prN04bovPMM

Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msk3G_Ye5aA

Global Social Theory https://globalsocialtheory.org/

Tahir Abbas – The Recent UK Riots: A Disturbing Analysis https://www.tahir-abbas.com/the-recent-uk-riots-a-disturbing-analysis/

Jhally, S., Shaheen, J. (2006) Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People Documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxak6lFd-I 

Salaam Geographia https://salaamgeographia.com/

The Disorder of Things https://thedisorderofthings.com/