Browsing by Subject "islamophobia"

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Transformacje postaw wobec Arabów w społeczeństwie polskim z perspektywy członków społeczności arabskiej i muzułmańskiej
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2020) Pędziwiatr, Konrad
In spite of numerous studies exploring the attitudes of Polish society towards followers of Islam including Arabs or studies showing how Polish media shapes the image of Muslims and Islam, there are hardly any analyses assessing how these attitudes and images are perceived by the minority group. The purpose of this text is to fill this gap and analyse the perception of transformation of attitudes in contemporary Polish society towards Arabs from the perspective of members of the Arab and Muslim communities. The article’s analytical frame- work builds upon the conceptions problematizing a group sense of alienation and familiarity in the context of human mobility and immobility. In particular, the text shows the usefulness of the concept of otherness and strangeness developed by Ewa Nowicka in the late 1990s for the analysis of the transformation of attitudes towards Arabs and Muslims in Polish society in the last two decades.
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»Us« and »them« in the language of conservative islamophobia. Referential and predicational strategies in Polish right-wing press discourse on the migration crisis in 2015
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2019) Konopka, Adam
As Vincent Geisser noted in his book, La Nouvelle Islamophobie, islamophobia can be defined as a form of cultural racism which puts emphasis especially on religion (Islam) as the agent of distinction between »Us« and »Them«, based usually on a phantasmatic idea of Islam and Muslims. The islamophobic phenomenon increased radically in Poland during the peak of the migration crisis in the second half of 2015, following numerous press articles and columns which provide a background for such prejudice. The right-wing press titles provided space for authors voicing discriminative opinions about (mostly Muslim) refugees and immigrants from the Middle East and Northern Africa. Using a Discourse-Historical Approach (Wodak, Reisigl), the author analysed which predicational and referential strategies are used to designate social actors and where the line of distinction is drawn between the categories of »Us« and »Them« in right-wing press discourse on the migration crisis. The analysis suggests that right-wing publicists distinguish two different subcategories of »Them«: a) refugees and immigrants (usually Muslim) and b) the liberal political and media elites. Therefore, the analysed texts could be perceived as examples of »conservative islamophobia«, as defined by Monika Bobako, in which European Christian identity is the basis for prejudice against Muslims and liberal advocates of multi-culturalism.