Register here to attend an EDFI lecture on ‘Islamophobia as a concept in practice’ hosted by Professor Nasar Meer from the University of Glasgow. The lecture will take place on 12 February 2025 from 16:00-18:00 in the Centenary Building (100) Room 4013, Highfield Campus.
This talk contributes to the topic of Islamophobia as a concept in practice by appealing to the explanatory power of sociologies of racialisation, evidence from public opinion surveys and qualitative interview data, as well as research on the policy process. In so doing, it suggests that opposition to the subject has less to do with social realities, and more to do with anxieties within political liberalism.
Nasar Meer is Professor of Social & Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. His research includes being PI Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees (GLIMER) (JPI ERA Net / Horizon-2020), and co-I on The Impacts of the Pandemic on Ethnic and Racialized Groups in the UK (UKRI). As well as an author and co-editor, he is Academic Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation (SHF) Scholars & Fellows Network, a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), Academy of social Sciences (FAcSS) and Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
The lecture is free to attend, however we ask colleagues to book in advance to help manage numbers appropriately.