{"id":34,"date":"2024-07-02T10:40:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T09:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:48:02","slug":"islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/islamophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-c6011999a9e85bbc2f8ff72d93108da3\"><strong>Islamophobia <\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2ff892e778565b390ee4954a01044340\" style=\"line-height:2\">Our work has&nbsp;sought&nbsp;to address the negative impacts of anti-Muslim racism through research and policy engagement. The focus of this work has tended to focus on everyday experiences of Islamophobia and how this can be addressed through work with politicians,&nbsp;journalists&nbsp;and education.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-c20bf18a9179d724b392567a6029ac76\" style=\"line-height:2\"><strong>Watch our Video<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is Islamophobia?\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2pFJarUuI-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-981451dc6f0a95b4c89b479ede08bcb7\"><strong>Read our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.ncl.ac.uk\/youngmuslims\/outputs\/Understanding%20Islamophobia%202018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;Understanding Islamophobia&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;booklet&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/files\/2024\/07\/Understanding-Islamophobia-2018-2.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:965px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Understanding-Islamophobia-2018-2.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-5b359b42-5153-4fec-b310-3ecea07d0552\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/files\/2024\/07\/Understanding-Islamophobia-2018-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Understanding-Islamophobia-2018-2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/files\/2024\/07\/Understanding-Islamophobia-2018-2.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-5b359b42-5153-4fec-b310-3ecea07d0552\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background is-style-default\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-59e506c607c9a9156c4c24b108e66b2c\" style=\"line-height:2\"><strong>Read our Publications:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopkins P.&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/301936\">Everyday Islamophobia<\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d3438416ce1dff0c1b49a9be8109b8ad\"><strong><em>Articles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"line-height:2\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-50be8d04b7b61989631677cae4145787\">\n<li>Hopkins P, Carr J.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/310162\">Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism studies: review and prospect<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/em>\u00a02026, epub ahead of print.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Khanji MY, Green N, Khan N, Imtiaz-Umer S, Rahman MEF, Hopkins P, Younis T, Kader Y.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13623699.2025.2561529\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13623699.2025.2561529\">Well-being impact, freedom of expression, censorship and Islamophobia experienced by Muslim healthcare professionals during the current Gaza genocide.<\/a>\u00a0<em>Medicine, Conflict and Survival<\/em>\u00a02026, 42(1) 12-29.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P, White J.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/305366\">The &#8216;Islamophobia President&#8217; re-elected<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>The Geographical Journal<\/em>&nbsp;2025,&nbsp;191(4), e70017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Khan T, Hopkins P.\u00a02026 <a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/307182\">Experiencing the summer 2024 UK riots: Reflections from North East England<\/a>.\u00a0<em>The Geographical Journal<\/em>\u00a0192(1) e70045<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P.\u00a02024 <a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/296007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Practising anti-Islamophobic geographies<\/a>.<em>\u00a0Space and Polity\u00a0<\/em>28(1). 1-19.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P.\u00a02021 <a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/274721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What is Islamophobia?<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Sociology Review<\/em>\u00a030(April), 10-12.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Najib K, Hopkins P. 2020\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/253411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Where does Islamophobia take place and who is involved? Reflections from Paris and London<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Social and Cultural Geography<\/em>\u00a02020,\u00a021(4), 458-478.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P. 2020\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/254875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Social Geography II: Islamophobia, transphobia, and sizism<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Progress in Human Geography\u00a0<\/em>44(3), 583-594.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finlay R, Hopkins P.\u00a02020 <a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/253960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Resistance and Marginalisation: Islamophobia and the Political Participation of Young Muslims in Scotland<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Social and Cultural Geography\u00a0<\/em>\u00a021(4), 546-568.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finlay R, Hopkins P.\u00a0 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/259867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Young Muslim women&#8217;s political participation in Scotland: Exploring the intersections of gender, religion, class and place<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Political Geography\u00a0<\/em>74, 102046.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Najib K, Hopkins P. 2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/258055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Veiled Muslim women&#8217;s strategies in response to Islamophobia in Paris<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Political Geography<\/em> 73, 103-111.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Burrell K, Hopkins P,\u00a0Isakjee\u00a0A, Lorne C, Nagel C, Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell MC, Pande R, Richardson M, Botterill K,\u00a0Rogaly\u00a0B. 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/253974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brexit, race and migration<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space<\/em>\u00a037(1), 3-40.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P, Botterill K, Sanghera G, Arshad R. 2017\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/229834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Annals of the American Association of Geographers<\/em>\u00a0107(4), 934-948.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Botterill K, Hopkins P, Sanghera G, Arshad R. 2016\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/227744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Securing disunion: Young people\u2019s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Political Geography<\/em>\u00a055, 124-134.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P. 2016\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/213242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gendering Islamophobia, racism and white supremacy: gendered violence against those who look Muslim<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Dialogues in Human Geography<\/em>\u00a08(2), 186-189.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8035a29a504e315fc2abf27abe53ba35\"><strong><em>Editorials<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-35b209995907330ef81288e4454ce514\">\n<li style=\"line-height:2\">Dunn K, Hopkins P. 2016\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/224877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The geographies of everyday Muslim life in the West<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Australian Geographer<\/em>\u00a047(3), 255-260.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Read our reports\/guides<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"line-height:1.5\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2d0c8b64fd4ed3f7a3b77fb0e5bdbd6d\">\n<li>White J. Finlay R. and Hopkins, P. <a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.ncl.ac.uk\/file_store\/production\/302514\/1962D1B8-57EC-48FC-9D1A-99070E9394ED.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/eprints.ncl.ac.uk\/file_store\/production\/302514\/1962D1B8-57EC-48FC-9D1A-99070E9394ED.pdf\">Muslim youth in Scotland: racism, politics, and the media<\/a>. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University. 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/294432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scotland&#8217;s Islamophobia &#8211; education, media, gender &#8211; update 2023<\/a>.&nbsp;Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2023.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/294429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scotland&#8217;s Islamophobia &#8211; report of the inquiry into Islamophobia in Scotland but the Cross Party Group on Tackling islamophobia &#8211; Executive Summary<\/a>.&nbsp;Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2021.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/275641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scotland\u2019s Islamophobia: report of the inquiry into Islamophobia in Scotland by the Cross-Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia<\/a>.&nbsp;Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Newcastle University, 2021.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P, Clayton J.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/267252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred in North East England<\/a>.&nbsp;Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2020.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mir U, Hopkins P.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/294431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media guidelines: reporting on Muslims and Islam &#8211; Executive Summary<\/a>.&nbsp;Edinburgh: Scottish Parliament, 2019.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mir U, Hopkins P.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/294430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media guidelines: reporting on Muslims and Islam<\/a>.&nbsp;Edinburgh: Scottish Parliament, 2019.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finlay R, Hopkins P, Sanghera G.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/237747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Muslim Youth and Political Participation in Scotland<\/a>.&nbsp;Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University and University of St Andrews, 2017.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopkins P.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/225155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deflections, displacements, disengagements<\/a>.&nbsp;In:&nbsp;Meer, N, ed.&nbsp;Scotland and Race Equality: Directions in Policy and Identity. London, UK: Runnymede, 2016, pp.30-31.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamophobia Our work has&nbsp;sought&nbsp;to address the negative impacts of anti-Muslim racism through research and policy engagement. The focus of this work has tended to focus on everyday experiences of Islamophobia and how this can be addressed through work with politicians,&nbsp;journalists&nbsp;and education.&nbsp; Watch our Video Read our&nbsp;&#8216;Understanding Islamophobia&#8217;&nbsp;booklet&nbsp; Read our Publications:&nbsp; Books Hopkins P.&nbsp;Everyday Islamophobia.&nbsp;Bristol: Bristol &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/islamophobia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11083,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/anti-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}