Mansouri, Fethi and Percival Wood, Sally 2006, Exploring the Australia-Middle East connection, in... more Mansouri, Fethi and Percival Wood, Sally 2006, Exploring the Australia-Middle East connection, in Australia and the Middle East: a front-line relationship, Tauris Academic Studies, IB Tauris & Co. Ltd., London. ... Tauris Academic Studies, IB Tauris & Co. Ltd.
How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age o... more How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the "war on terror"? The widely felt sense of insecurity in the West is shared by Muslims both within and outside Western societies. Growing Islamic militancy and resulting increased security measures by Western powers have contributed to a pervasive sense among Muslims of being under attack (both physically and culturally). Islam and Political Violence brings together the current debate on the uneasy and potentially mutually destructive relationship between the Muslim world and the West and argues we are on a dangerous trajectory, strengthening dichotomous notions of the divide between the West and the Muslim world.
This chapter examines the role of Australian media in the production, propagation and enactment o... more This chapter examines the role of Australian media in the production, propagation and enactment of racism. It discusses how media racialises particular groups and influences political discourse around immigration policy, diversity and national identity issues. Media plays central role in modern society by setting the agenda for public discourse and by disseminating information across increasingly compressed notions of time and space. Media remain vital for modern democracy, particularly in balancing state power and holding it to account. Yet, like any other public institution, media can also be used and abused for various purposes that promote unfair inequalities. Racism is one such negative social outcome that is widely perpetrated in media with significant adverse effects on racial minorities. At the beginning of the twentieth century, racist tropes in the media and the film industry encouraged racist hatred against African Americans. Similarly, the media was instrumental in carrying racial propaganda for White Australia. Throughout the 1960s and beyond, media was at the heart of racial polarisation that continues to this day. This chapter examines the contemporary nature of mediatised racism that perpetuates structural inequities in Australia. The chapter also explores the recent spike in anti-Asian racism on social media during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic showing the role of media in perpetuating both ethno-cultural as well as institutional forms of racism.
This article reflects on the ethical and epistemological challenges facing researchers engaged in... more This article reflects on the ethical and epistemological challenges facing researchers engaged in contemporary studies of Islam and Muslims in the West. Particularly, it focuses on the impact of the constructions and categorisations of Muslims and Islam in research. To do this, it considers the entwinement of public discourses and the development of research agendas and projects. To examine this complex and enmeshed process, this article explores ideological, discursive and epistemological approaches that it argues researchers need to consider. In invoking these three approaches alongside an analysis of a collection of recent research, this article contends that questions of race, religion and politics have been deployed to reinforce, rather than challenge, certain essentialist/orientalist representations of Islam and Muslims in the West in research. As this article shows, this practice is increasingly threatening to compromise, in a Habermasian communicative sense (i.e., the opport...
This article reflects on the ethical and epistemological challenges facing researchers engaged in... more This article reflects on the ethical and epistemological challenges facing researchers engaged in contemporary studies of Islam and Muslims in the West. Particularly, it focuses on the impact of the constructions and categorisations of Muslims and Islam in research. To do this, it considers the entwinement of public discourses and the development of research agendas and projects. To examine this complex and enmeshed process, this article explores ideological, discursive and epistemological approaches that it argues researchers need to consider. In invoking these three approaches alongside an analysis of a collection of recent research, this article contends that questions of race, religion and politics have been deployed to reinforce, rather than challenge, certain essentialist/orientalist representations of Islam and Muslims in the West in research. As this article shows, this practice is increasingly threatening to compromise, in a Habermasian communicative sense (i.e., the opport...
... the Middle East / David Walker -- 3 From Sudan to Suez : strategic encounters / David Lowe --... more ... the Middle East / David Walker -- 3 From Sudan to Suez : strategic encounters / David Lowe -- 4 Arab Migration from the Middle East / Trevor Batrouney -- 5 Muslims in Australia / Abdullah Saeed -- 6 Middle Eastern refugees in 'Fortress' Australia / Fethi Mansouri -- 7 Australia ...
This introductory paper to our first issue provides reflection on the concept of critical global ... more This introductory paper to our first issue provides reflection on the concept of critical global citizenship at both theoretical and practical levels. We maintain that ‘citizenship’, irrespective of its level of articulation (i.e. national, international, global, etc.) remains an issue that reflects a status, a feeling and practices that are intrinsically interlinked. As a legal status, formal citizenship allows individuals to form a sense of belonging within a political community and, therefore, empowers them to act and perform their citizenship within the spatial domains of the nation-state. Critical global citizenship, asks these same individuals not so much to neglect these notions of belonging and practice to a particular locale, but to extend such affinities beyond the territorial boundaries of their formal national membership and to think critically and ethically about their local, national and global relationship with those who are different from themselves. Making a case fo...
The acquisition of complex grammatical structures of a non-cognate language has been reported to ... more The acquisition of complex grammatical structures of a non-cognate language has been reported to be a daunting task for adult learners (Samimy and Tabuse, 1992; Bailey, 1983; Kleimann, 1977). In the case of Arabic morphology, this task is reported to be difficult not only for foreign learners (Bakalla, 1980; Neel, 1980) but also for native speakers (Omar, 1973). The current paper sets out to investigate the nature and the processes involved in the learning of Arabic subject-verb agreement structures by Australian advanced learners. The investigation employs explanations from second language acquisition (SLA) theories as well as from linguistic theories. It is hypothesised that (1) the amount and direction of information encoding (Person, Number and Gender) motivated by certain semantic categories and word order, as well as (2) the availability of discourse cues would influence the learners’ performance in subject-verb agreement tasks. The results reported in this paper indicate that...
Keynote addresses: What next for Australia's refugee policy? / Peter Mares -- One year after ... more Keynote addresses: What next for Australia's refugee policy? / Peter Mares -- One year after Tampa: refugees, deportees and TPVs / Chris Sidoti -- Academic papers: The tension of re-other-ing bodies / Snezana Dabic -- Acting for asylum: the nexus of pro-refugee activism in Melbourne / Helen Hintjens & Alison Jarman -- Biopolitics and the 'problem' of the refugee / Matthew Holt -- Temporary protection of refugees: Australian policy and international comparison / Fethi Mansouri & Michael Leach --The not-so-special benefit and non-mutual obligation: refugees on a TPV and income support arrangements / Greg Marston -- Family separation: Somali women in Melbourne / Celia McMichael & Malyun Ahmed -- Embodying exile: protest, performance, trauma and effect in the formation of East Timorese refugee identities / Amanda Wise -- Personal and Community Sector Perspectives -- A personal experience of the TPV policy / Mueen Al-Breihi -- A city of refuge?: protecting the social and cultural rights of refugees in Brisbane / Renae Mann -- Temporary protection visas, recovery from trauma and personal identity / Helen Martin -- All I ask for is protection: young people seeking asylum in Australia / Samira Mohamed.
To cite this article: Mansouri, Fethi and Wood, Sally Percival. Educational Experiences of Arab a... more To cite this article: Mansouri, Fethi and Wood, Sally Percival. Educational Experiences of Arab and Muslim Australians: An Empirical Approach [online]. In: Mansouri, Fethi; Wood, Sally Percival. Identity, Education and Belonging: Arab and Muslim Youth in Contemporary ...
Mansouri, Fethi and Percival Wood, Sally 2006, Exploring the Australia-Middle East connection, in... more Mansouri, Fethi and Percival Wood, Sally 2006, Exploring the Australia-Middle East connection, in Australia and the Middle East: a front-line relationship, Tauris Academic Studies, IB Tauris & Co. Ltd., London. ... Tauris Academic Studies, IB Tauris & Co. Ltd.
How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age o... more How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the "war on terror"? The widely felt sense of insecurity in the West is shared by Muslims both within and outside Western societies. Growing Islamic militancy and resulting increased security measures by Western powers have contributed to a pervasive sense among Muslims of being under attack (both physically and culturally). Islam and Political Violence brings together the current debate on the uneasy and potentially mutually destructive relationship between the Muslim world and the West and argues we are on a dangerous trajectory, strengthening dichotomous notions of the divide between the West and the Muslim world.
This chapter examines the role of Australian media in the production, propagation and enactment o... more This chapter examines the role of Australian media in the production, propagation and enactment of racism. It discusses how media racialises particular groups and influences political discourse around immigration policy, diversity and national identity issues. Media plays central role in modern society by setting the agenda for public discourse and by disseminating information across increasingly compressed notions of time and space. Media remain vital for modern democracy, particularly in balancing state power and holding it to account. Yet, like any other public institution, media can also be used and abused for various purposes that promote unfair inequalities. Racism is one such negative social outcome that is widely perpetrated in media with significant adverse effects on racial minorities. At the beginning of the twentieth century, racist tropes in the media and the film industry encouraged racist hatred against African Americans. Similarly, the media was instrumental in carrying racial propaganda for White Australia. Throughout the 1960s and beyond, media was at the heart of racial polarisation that continues to this day. This chapter examines the contemporary nature of mediatised racism that perpetuates structural inequities in Australia. The chapter also explores the recent spike in anti-Asian racism on social media during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic showing the role of media in perpetuating both ethno-cultural as well as institutional forms of racism.
This article reflects on the ethical and epistemological challenges facing researchers engaged in... more This article reflects on the ethical and epistemological challenges facing researchers engaged in contemporary studies of Islam and Muslims in the West. Particularly, it focuses on the impact of the constructions and categorisations of Muslims and Islam in research. To do this, it considers the entwinement of public discourses and the development of research agendas and projects. To examine this complex and enmeshed process, this article explores ideological, discursive and epistemological approaches that it argues researchers need to consider. In invoking these three approaches alongside an analysis of a collection of recent research, this article contends that questions of race, religion and politics have been deployed to reinforce, rather than challenge, certain essentialist/orientalist representations of Islam and Muslims in the West in research. As this article shows, this practice is increasingly threatening to compromise, in a Habermasian communicative sense (i.e., the opport...
This article reflects on the ethical and epistemological challenges facing researchers engaged in... more This article reflects on the ethical and epistemological challenges facing researchers engaged in contemporary studies of Islam and Muslims in the West. Particularly, it focuses on the impact of the constructions and categorisations of Muslims and Islam in research. To do this, it considers the entwinement of public discourses and the development of research agendas and projects. To examine this complex and enmeshed process, this article explores ideological, discursive and epistemological approaches that it argues researchers need to consider. In invoking these three approaches alongside an analysis of a collection of recent research, this article contends that questions of race, religion and politics have been deployed to reinforce, rather than challenge, certain essentialist/orientalist representations of Islam and Muslims in the West in research. As this article shows, this practice is increasingly threatening to compromise, in a Habermasian communicative sense (i.e., the opport...
... the Middle East / David Walker -- 3 From Sudan to Suez : strategic encounters / David Lowe --... more ... the Middle East / David Walker -- 3 From Sudan to Suez : strategic encounters / David Lowe -- 4 Arab Migration from the Middle East / Trevor Batrouney -- 5 Muslims in Australia / Abdullah Saeed -- 6 Middle Eastern refugees in 'Fortress' Australia / Fethi Mansouri -- 7 Australia ...
This introductory paper to our first issue provides reflection on the concept of critical global ... more This introductory paper to our first issue provides reflection on the concept of critical global citizenship at both theoretical and practical levels. We maintain that ‘citizenship’, irrespective of its level of articulation (i.e. national, international, global, etc.) remains an issue that reflects a status, a feeling and practices that are intrinsically interlinked. As a legal status, formal citizenship allows individuals to form a sense of belonging within a political community and, therefore, empowers them to act and perform their citizenship within the spatial domains of the nation-state. Critical global citizenship, asks these same individuals not so much to neglect these notions of belonging and practice to a particular locale, but to extend such affinities beyond the territorial boundaries of their formal national membership and to think critically and ethically about their local, national and global relationship with those who are different from themselves. Making a case fo...
The acquisition of complex grammatical structures of a non-cognate language has been reported to ... more The acquisition of complex grammatical structures of a non-cognate language has been reported to be a daunting task for adult learners (Samimy and Tabuse, 1992; Bailey, 1983; Kleimann, 1977). In the case of Arabic morphology, this task is reported to be difficult not only for foreign learners (Bakalla, 1980; Neel, 1980) but also for native speakers (Omar, 1973). The current paper sets out to investigate the nature and the processes involved in the learning of Arabic subject-verb agreement structures by Australian advanced learners. The investigation employs explanations from second language acquisition (SLA) theories as well as from linguistic theories. It is hypothesised that (1) the amount and direction of information encoding (Person, Number and Gender) motivated by certain semantic categories and word order, as well as (2) the availability of discourse cues would influence the learners’ performance in subject-verb agreement tasks. The results reported in this paper indicate that...
Keynote addresses: What next for Australia's refugee policy? / Peter Mares -- One year after ... more Keynote addresses: What next for Australia's refugee policy? / Peter Mares -- One year after Tampa: refugees, deportees and TPVs / Chris Sidoti -- Academic papers: The tension of re-other-ing bodies / Snezana Dabic -- Acting for asylum: the nexus of pro-refugee activism in Melbourne / Helen Hintjens & Alison Jarman -- Biopolitics and the 'problem' of the refugee / Matthew Holt -- Temporary protection of refugees: Australian policy and international comparison / Fethi Mansouri & Michael Leach --The not-so-special benefit and non-mutual obligation: refugees on a TPV and income support arrangements / Greg Marston -- Family separation: Somali women in Melbourne / Celia McMichael & Malyun Ahmed -- Embodying exile: protest, performance, trauma and effect in the formation of East Timorese refugee identities / Amanda Wise -- Personal and Community Sector Perspectives -- A personal experience of the TPV policy / Mueen Al-Breihi -- A city of refuge?: protecting the social and cultural rights of refugees in Brisbane / Renae Mann -- Temporary protection visas, recovery from trauma and personal identity / Helen Martin -- All I ask for is protection: young people seeking asylum in Australia / Samira Mohamed.
To cite this article: Mansouri, Fethi and Wood, Sally Percival. Educational Experiences of Arab a... more To cite this article: Mansouri, Fethi and Wood, Sally Percival. Educational Experiences of Arab and Muslim Australians: An Empirical Approach [online]. In: Mansouri, Fethi; Wood, Sally Percival. Identity, Education and Belonging: Arab and Muslim Youth in Contemporary ...
Building Bridges: Creating a Culture of Diversity steers schools towards a deeper understanding o... more Building Bridges: Creating a Culture of Diversity steers schools towards a deeper understanding of the nature of their communities as a microcosm of Australian multicultural society.
The book aims to develop an understanding of diversity both within the boundaries of the school, and beyond, in the broader community. This will facilitate the engagement of parents, families, and the broader community, as well as students, teachers and staff.
"The Legacy of the Arab Spring: New Forces and Fault Lines," R/evolutions: Global Trends & Regional Issues, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2016
How did the Arab Spring change the Middle East? That is the main question on which this fourth is... more How did the Arab Spring change the Middle East? That is the main question on which this fourth issue of R/evolutions wants to zoom in. This issue therefore is divided in three parts: 'The Arab Spring in Perspective' provides an overview and some historical context of the Arab Uprisings to highlight its increasing complexity and interconnectedness in a globalizing world with various competing political groups. The second part, 'Unraveling the Uprisings,' focuses on the “Spring” itself by explaining the role of internal and external actors, and uncovering some underexplored dimensions. By deconstructing these ‘revolutions’ this part aims to provides an insightful glimpse of their transformative potential. The last part,' New Fault Lines & Legacies' will assess how MENA has been transformed by the Arab uprisings. Firstly by explaining the origins, drivers and impact of sectarianization in the region and then by focusing on Tunisia, the only successful democratic transition in the region triggered by the Arab Spring.
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The book aims to develop an understanding of diversity both within the boundaries of the school, and beyond, in the broader community. This will facilitate the engagement of parents, families, and the broader community, as well as students, teachers and staff.