This book, the first to explore the politics of definitions from an interdisciplinary perspective, encourages readers to reconsider the value and limits of definitions in confronting antisemitism and Islamophobia. In recent years, definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia have become central to the struggle to combat the hostility, harassment and discrimination experienced by Jews and Muslims. Yet these definitions have also provoked fierce controversy: critics have questioned whether they are fit for purpose, or have criticised them as unwelcome attempts to restrict freedom of expression. In this edited collection, historians, social scientists and philosophers reflect on definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia in both the past and the present. Its contributors investigate the different historical contexts which have shaped definitions and examine their different political purposes and meanings, as well as addressing contemporary debates, and identifying ways forus to move beyond our current impasse. This book therefore provides a broad and new perspective from which to comprehend present day minority politics.
Bracketing Antisemitism: The Discourse and Its Semantic Distinctions
págs. 21-39
págs. 41-66
Moorish Blood: Islamophobia, Racism and the Struggle for the Identity of Modern Spain
págs. 67-88
Challenges of ‘The Jewish People’: Promises and Perils of Collective Identities
págs. 89-111
págs. 115-136
The Rifle that Stands Between Us: Arab Intellectuals and the Jewish Question,1839–2020
págs. 137-163
págs. 165-188
Defining Antisemitism: What Is the Point?
págs. 191-209
‘BDS today is no different from the SA in 1933’: Juridification, Securitisation and ‘Antifa’-isation of the Contemporary German Discourse on Israel–Palestine, Antisemitism and the BDS Movement
págs. 211-234
Islamophobia, Antisemitism and the Struggle for Recognition: The Politics of Definitions
págs. 235-257
págs. 259-280
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