TY - JOUR
T1 - Conditional hospitality and coercive concern
T2 - countertopographies of Islamophobia in American and Danish schools
AU - Shirazi, Roozbeh
AU - Jaffe-Walter, Reva
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In this article, we explore how locally situated educational practices and policies aimed at inclusion and integration may contribute to racialised exclusion for students. Our analysis brings together two ethnographic studies of how minoritised Muslim youth navigate secondary schooling in Denmark and the US. Our cases illustrate how assumptions held by school staff toward the youth in our studies were rooted in both Islamophobic tropes and deeply held nationalist beliefs about the benevolence of the US and Denmark. Cindi Katz's notion of ‘countertopography’ is critical to our argument that Islamophobia is productive of similar practices of surveillance and exclusion across disparate educational settings. As an analytical framework, countertopography opens important possibilities for critical and comparative qualitative inquiry, with specific promise for highlighting how seemingly dissimilarly educational spaces may be imbued with similar social meanings, and how these meanings are constituted by recurring unequal social relations between individuals and groups therein.
AB - In this article, we explore how locally situated educational practices and policies aimed at inclusion and integration may contribute to racialised exclusion for students. Our analysis brings together two ethnographic studies of how minoritised Muslim youth navigate secondary schooling in Denmark and the US. Our cases illustrate how assumptions held by school staff toward the youth in our studies were rooted in both Islamophobic tropes and deeply held nationalist beliefs about the benevolence of the US and Denmark. Cindi Katz's notion of ‘countertopography’ is critical to our argument that Islamophobia is productive of similar practices of surveillance and exclusion across disparate educational settings. As an analytical framework, countertopography opens important possibilities for critical and comparative qualitative inquiry, with specific promise for highlighting how seemingly dissimilarly educational spaces may be imbued with similar social meanings, and how these meanings are constituted by recurring unequal social relations between individuals and groups therein.
KW - Countertopography
KW - ethnography
KW - islamophobia/anti-muslim racism
KW - liberalism
KW - migration
KW - nationalism
KW - secondary schooling
KW - sociopolitical inclusion
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090248133&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03050068.2020.1812234
DO - 10.1080/03050068.2020.1812234
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090248133
SN - 0305-0068
JO - Comparative Education
JF - Comparative Education
ER -