Out now! Our @INTPOLITSOCIO article: Racial Capitalism, Islamophobia, and Austerity. Huge thanks to our research participants, and thanks to @CURA2015 for funding. DM me if you want a copy but don't have access. A short thread on the article below 1/4
https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaa023

Following our previous collaborative project on 'media scandals' and ideological fantasies around British Muslims ( https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0967010618794050), Nadya Ali of @IRSussex and I embarked on a @CURA2015-funded project aiming to explore the political economy of Islamophobia 2/4

In 'Racial Capitalism, Islamophobia, and Austerity', we develop a theoretical and historical framework (indebted to @sandylocks Cedric J. Robinson @RobbieShilliam @Gargi_at_home Satnam Virdee, Salman Sayyid & others), to explore lived experiences of austerity-era Islamophobia 3/4

We argue that rising Islamophobia post-2010 is not merely correlative to, or epiphenomenal of, austerity, but rather constitutive of it. Islamophobic racism permeates austerity political economy. The article's epigraph is below. Again, if u want a copy of the full piece, hmu 4/4