Attempts to define antisemitism and Islamophobia have been accompanied by controversies which bring to the surface disciplinary, conceptual and broader political differences. The Institute explored these disagreements in an international workshop entitled ‘Antisemitism: Definition Matters’ held in 2019. The workshop brought together speakers from a range of perspectives to consider the changing and contested understanding of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and the issues which arise when each has been defined in particular times and places.
This workshop will give rise to a volume of essays, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the Politics of Definition, exploring the political and theoretical issues entailed by attempts to define antisemitism and Islamophobia, with contributions from historians, sociologists, and philosophers. The volume will be published in 2023 in the Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism series (series editor, David Feldman).
Project team: David Feldman, Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Mark Volovici, Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the University of Haifa. Marc previously served as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at BISA.
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