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Jacqueline Ann Ewart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Non-Muslim Australians’ Knowledge of Islam: Identifying and Rectifying Knowledge Deficiencies
    Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2017
    Co-Authors: Kate O’donnell, Rachel Davis, Jacqueline Ann Ewart
    Abstract:

    AbstractIt is more than a decade since Social Geographer Kevin Dunn first described non-Muslim Australians’ ignorance about Islam and its adherents and outlined a series of recommendations about how Australian governments could address this as a pressing Social policy issue. Recently researchers have re-assessed non-Muslim Australians’ perceptions of their knowledge of Islam and Muslims identifying while it has improved since 2003, 70% acknowledge they know little to nothing about either. Using data from Australia’s 2016 National Social Survey, this study examines the correlation between non-Muslim Australians’ perceptions of their knowledge of Islam and Muslims and their actual knowledge. We find that perception of knowledge is a reasonable indicator of actual knowledge. Further, we find that tertiary education is the single significant demographic factor impacting actual knowledge. By examining geographical patterns of knowledge, we also find that ignorance of Islam and Muslims is consistent across Aust...

Walding Shannon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Perceptions and realities: The main sources of information for non-Muslim Australians about the religion of Islam and Muslim people
    Sage Publications, 2018
    Co-Authors: O'donnell Kathleen, Ewart Jacqueline, Walding Shannon
    Abstract:

    In the context that Australian journalists and the Australian public are largely ignorant of Islam and Muslims and where racism and Islamophobia are historically rooted and persistent, this study reports on where Australians source their information about Islam and Muslims. In this study, we find that while a sample of Australian journalists believe overall that 80% of the Australian public relies on the mainstream news media as a primary source of information about the Islamic faith and its followers, this is a significant overestimation. This study identifies that the mainstream news media is a primary source of information about the religion of Islam and Muslim people for around half of Australia’s non-Muslim population (49.27% and 45.89%, respectively). Muslim people, books, Social media and family and friends are also important primary sources of information. In identifying the main sources of information about Islam and Muslims in Australia, this study answers the question posed by Social Geographer Kevin Dunn more than a decade ago. By comparing perceptions with reality, we find the mainstream news media are not as significant a source of information for non-Muslim Australians about Islam and Muslims as our sample of journalists believe them to be. This opens up the space for policymakers to look for new and targeted ways (beyond improving the ways the news media report stories about Islam and Muslims) to normalise Islam as a religion of peace and further work to combat entrenched Islamophobia, key among them are Muslim people.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal JusticeNo Full Tex

A.b. Hofmeyr - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Liefs nie op straat nie. Die openbare rol van die intellektueel vandag
    2009
    Co-Authors: A.b. Hofmeyr
    Abstract:

    Preferably not in the street. The public role of the intellectual today In this paper I attempt to contextualise the question regarding the public role of the academic as intellectual in terms of the present global, neo-liberal "governmentality". With the aid of thinkers such as Bourdieu, Foucault, Sennett, Arendt, but also the Social Geographer David Harvey, it becomes clear that neo-liberalism radically attenuates the individual’s capacity to enter the public sphere. This incapacitation leads to the inevitable depoliticisation of intellectual labour through the increasing individualisation of the self on the one hand and the rampant privatisation of the public on the other hand. This is explained by laying bare the corrosive and pervasive nature of neo-liberalism. Foucault and Bourdieu nevertheless believe in the possibility of resistance, which they locate in the individual and in his/her capacity as a politicised intellectual. However, the repoliticisation of intellectuals and their role in the political sphere presupposes a more fundamental recovery of the public sphere. The tactical question regarding the possibilities of and means to resistance is therefore rooted in the ontological question regarding the freedom of the self that comes into being in the Social space between the self and the other. In the final analysis, the thinking of Levinas is used to argue that fidelity to the self is not realised through the pursuit of limitless freedom (although it is undeniable that our freedom is at stake), but in the Social dimension, which enables the self – via the other – to re-enter the public and eventually the political sphere.

  • Beyond the Ivory Tower : the public role of the intellectual today
    2008
    Co-Authors: A.b. Hofmeyr
    Abstract:

    In this paper, I attempt to contextualise the question regarding the public role of the academic as intellectual in terms of the present, global, neo-liberal “govern-mentality”. With the aid of thinkers such as Bourdieu, Foucault, Sennett, Arendt, but also Social Geographer, David Harvey, it becomes clear that neoliberalism radically attenuates the individual’s capacity to enter the public sphere. This incapacitation leads to the inevitable depoliticisation of intellectual labour through the increasing individualisation of the self, on the one hand, and the rampant privatisation of the public, on the other hand. This is explained by laying bare the corrosive impact and pervasive nature of neoliberalism. Foucault and Bourdieu nevertheless believe in the possibility of resistance, which they locate in the individual and in his/her capacity as politicised intellectual. However, the repoliticisation of intellectuals and their role in the political sphere presupposes a more fundamental recovery of the public sphere. The tactical question regarding the possibilities of and means to resistance is therefore rooted in the ontological question regarding the freedom of the self that comes into being in the Social space between the self and the other. In the final analysis, the thought of Levinas is used to argue that fidelity to the self is not realised through the pursuit of limitless freedom (although our freedom is undeniably at stake), but in the Social dimension, which enables the self – via the other – to re-enter the public and eventually the political sphere.

Kate O’donnell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Non-Muslim Australians’ Knowledge of Islam: Identifying and Rectifying Knowledge Deficiencies
    Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2017
    Co-Authors: Kate O’donnell, Rachel Davis, Jacqueline Ann Ewart
    Abstract:

    AbstractIt is more than a decade since Social Geographer Kevin Dunn first described non-Muslim Australians’ ignorance about Islam and its adherents and outlined a series of recommendations about how Australian governments could address this as a pressing Social policy issue. Recently researchers have re-assessed non-Muslim Australians’ perceptions of their knowledge of Islam and Muslims identifying while it has improved since 2003, 70% acknowledge they know little to nothing about either. Using data from Australia’s 2016 National Social Survey, this study examines the correlation between non-Muslim Australians’ perceptions of their knowledge of Islam and Muslims and their actual knowledge. We find that perception of knowledge is a reasonable indicator of actual knowledge. Further, we find that tertiary education is the single significant demographic factor impacting actual knowledge. By examining geographical patterns of knowledge, we also find that ignorance of Islam and Muslims is consistent across Aust...

O'donnell Kathleen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Perceptions and realities: The main sources of information for non-Muslim Australians about the religion of Islam and Muslim people
    Sage Publications, 2018
    Co-Authors: O'donnell Kathleen, Ewart Jacqueline, Walding Shannon
    Abstract:

    In the context that Australian journalists and the Australian public are largely ignorant of Islam and Muslims and where racism and Islamophobia are historically rooted and persistent, this study reports on where Australians source their information about Islam and Muslims. In this study, we find that while a sample of Australian journalists believe overall that 80% of the Australian public relies on the mainstream news media as a primary source of information about the Islamic faith and its followers, this is a significant overestimation. This study identifies that the mainstream news media is a primary source of information about the religion of Islam and Muslim people for around half of Australia’s non-Muslim population (49.27% and 45.89%, respectively). Muslim people, books, Social media and family and friends are also important primary sources of information. In identifying the main sources of information about Islam and Muslims in Australia, this study answers the question posed by Social Geographer Kevin Dunn more than a decade ago. By comparing perceptions with reality, we find the mainstream news media are not as significant a source of information for non-Muslim Australians about Islam and Muslims as our sample of journalists believe them to be. This opens up the space for policymakers to look for new and targeted ways (beyond improving the ways the news media report stories about Islam and Muslims) to normalise Islam as a religion of peace and further work to combat entrenched Islamophobia, key among them are Muslim people.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal JusticeNo Full Tex