Social Cohesion and Islamophobia

Social Cohesion and Islamophobia

Social Cohesion and Islamophobia By Shaheen Kattiparambil i Blog 129     What does social cohesion have to do with Islamophobia in contemporary Britain? On 9 March 2026, the Labour government unveiled its new social cohesion strategy, Protecting What Matters,...
How Not to Fight Islamophobia

How Not to Fight Islamophobia

How Not to Fight Islamophobia By Shaheen Kattiparambil i Blog 121   Image Credit: 17 United Against Islamophobia, Felton Davis, Wikimedia Commons  Year after year, campaigns emerge urging Muslims to fight Islamophobia through better stories, counternarratives,...
Zionist Settler Colonialism and Framing Palestinian Resistance

Zionist Settler Colonialism and Framing Palestinian Resistance

Zionist Settler Colonialism and Framing Palestinian Resistance By Shaheen Kattiparambil i Blog 91   Patrick Wolfe’s Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology has been one of the most persuasive theoretical interventions for understanding settler...
V For Virus

V For Virus

V For Virus Comments by Sheheen Kattiparambil i Blog 42   A scene from the dystopian political thriller V for Vendetta shows the masked protagonist ‘V’ taking over television networks to address the British public in a counterfactual timeline where Britain has...
The Caliphate in Outer Space: The Final Frontier

The Caliphate in Outer Space: The Final Frontier

The Caliphate in Outer Space: The Final Frontier Comments by Sheheen Kattiparambil i Blog 40   In popular Eurocentric parlance, the Caliphate is viewed as a relic of a bygone era, its re-establishment constituting a central objective – if not, the objective – of...