Contemporary anti-Muslim sentiment in Australia is reproduced through a racialization that
includes well rehearsed stereotypes of Islam, perceptions of threat and inferiority, as well as …

This paper replies to Kong's (2010) lament that geographers of religion have not sufficiently
intervened in religious studies. It advocates 'grounded theologies' as a rubric by which to …

The study of gender in rural spaces is still in its infancy. Thus far, there has been little
exploration of the constitution of the varied and differing ways that gender is constituted in …

The media is a significant social agent, with the potential to influence community
perceptions. Its influence can seriously impact on minority groups by subjecting them to …

This paper describes the analysis of an 87 million word corpus of British newspaper articles
which refer to the subject of Islam. In order to examine representations of Islam and Muslims …

This is the first study to bring space into conversation with religious competition, conflict and
violence in the contemporary world. Lily Kong and Orlando Woods argue that because …

Contemporary Australia is in a contradictory situation as a nation where multiculturalism co-
exists with various forms of what are collectively called racisms. Based on a survey of …

Ideas about race and racism have been a centrepiece of social geography for as much as
50 years, yet it was not until the 1990s that markers of difference rooted in religion …

The horrific events of 9/11 solidified Western popular interest in Islamic radicalism 2,
empowered particular discourses on religion as an all-encompassing identity (cf. Sen 2006) …

The contested nature of multiculturalism in Australia is stark in local debates over mosque
developments in Sydney. Queer-theory concepts (citation, repetition, sedimentation, and …