I read with profound sadness the statement made by the NZ Chief Human Rights Commissioner Dr. Stephen Rainbow about "the increase in Muslim immigration as threat to Jewish community." The sentiment expressed in the statement reflects the Islamophobia being circulated across Far-Right platforms globally targeting Muslim communities. In the US for instance, the networked infrastructure of the Far-Right has continually produced the image of the terrorist Muslim threatening Western civilization to stoke up fear and hatred. The Trump administration has mainstreamed this Far-Right extremism in the form of Islamophobia scripted into policies that have been dressed up as addressing antisemitism. Consider the targeting of international students, particularly Muslim international students, and international students expressing solidarity with Palestine and speaking out against the genocide being carried out by Israel. Similarly in the UK, Far-Right groups such as the English Defense Le...
This blog offers Mohan Dutta's reflections on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, examining the interplays among Structure, Culture, and Agency in shaping marginalisation and the ways in which communities at the margins challenge structures. Writings on the blog are continually being revised to reflect the organic analysis of structure and agency.