The British State's Production of the "Muslim School": A Simultaneity of Categories of Difference Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin; Haywood, Chris
Titel	The British State's Production of the "Muslim School": A Simultaneity of Categories of Difference Analysis
Quelle	In: British Educational Research Journal, 47 (2021) 2, S.264-278 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-1926
DOI	10.1002/berj.3690
Schlagwörter	Muslims; Social Bias; Islam; Religious Cultural Groups; Immigrants; Social Attitudes; Attitude Change; Cultural Influences; Religious Schools; Religion; Social Values; Ethnic Groups; Foreign Countries; Racial Bias; Crime; Educational History; United Kingdom (Birmingham) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Muslim; Muslimin; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Sozialer Wert; Ethnie; Ausland; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte
Abstract	Recently, national populist politics has been translated with the emergence of two overlapping narratives of Islamophobia and anti-EU immigration media discourses. Such discourses have been made highly visible in the increased spike in hate crimes that have been a hidden cost of the national(ist) debate about Britain leaving the European Union (Brexit). This is the context in which we can trace a remarkable shift in the state representation of the schooling of the South Asian/Muslim community and the reclassification from promoting South Asians as central to the future of a modernised multicultural Britain (1970s) to positioning Muslims as a 'suspect community' (2020). This article unpacks two cultural moments in the critical exploration of the State production of the "Muslim School" within a post-Trojan Horse era. First, a national dominant image of the "Muslim School" operating within the State ascribed 'no-go' ethno-religious Muslim neighbourhoods, as a repository of regressive (extreme) Islamist religiosity; thus, reconstructing their religious belief as racialised identities, as they disconnect from British values. Second, the "No Outsiders" programme, with the accompanying framing of intolerant (Muslim) parents. In this case, the ensuing tension between 'homophobic Muslims' and 'British values' sets in place a homogenisation of differences. Deploying a simultaneity of categories of difference perspective, we address an underlying discursive re-politicising of South Asian ethnic communities as religious communities, which is resulting in a perpetual negotiation of the meanings attached to being Muslim. This will enable an international application of the article beyond the specific focus on the city of Birmingham, identified in the international media as the Jihadi capital of Europe. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01