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SSAP/ Challenging Racism Project: Challenging Racism Series - Tuesday 24 September
From: Vicki Fox
Valid from: Tuesday 17 September 2019 to Tuesday 24 September 2019
Campaigning About Palestine at English Universities in a Hostile Environment: Muslim students and staff under attack, but fighting back! Presented by James Godfrey, PhD student, University of London
Abstract:
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This paper reviews and contextualises the 'Prevent duty' (Prevent) within 'World Risk Society' and how it operates in conjunction with rising levels of racism. In particular Islamophobia and anti-Palestinianism and a deliberate conflation between antisemitism and anti-Zionism that creates a 'hostile environment' for certain racialised people at universities. Using semi-structured interviews, James Godfrey has obtained original data from university students, staff, members of Palestine solidarity organisations, Islamic Societies, representative and advocacy organisations.
Biography:
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James Godfrey is a PhD researcher in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is investigating the 'Prevent' requirement to report perceived radicalisation and its impacts on freedom of speech regarding Israeli Occupied Palestine within universities. He has a strong commitment to campaigning for social justice, locally and internationally, in particular focusing on justice for the Palestinian people.
For more information about the presentation and James Godfrey, please see the attached document.
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Date: Tuesday 24 September 2019
Time: 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Location: EHa.1.30, Parramatta South campus
Attached document: CRS Seminar_September 2019.pdf [763501 bytes] application/pdf