Muslim Students, Education and Neoliberalism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Máirtín Mac an Ghaill, Chris Haywood

   Pages 1-15

3. Dangerous Radicals or Symbols of Crisis and Change: Re-theorising the Status of Muslim Boys as a Threat to the Social Order

   • Farzana Shain

   Pages 17-33

4. Late-Modern Muslims: Theorising Islamic Identities Amongst University Students

   • Paul Bagguley, Yasmin Hussain

   Pages 35-49

5. Education of Muslim Students in Turbulent Times

   • Saeeda Shah

   Pages 51-66

6. Factoring-in Faith Fairly: A Contribution from Critical Realism to the Authentic Framing of Muslims-in-Education

   • Matthew Wilkinson

   Pages 67-84

7. Towards Multi-cultural, Multi-religious European Societies? Schooling Turkish Students in Britain and Germany

   • Daniel Faas

   Pages 85-98

8. ‘Uncivil’ Activism: Arab, South Asian, and Afghan American Youth Politics after 9/11

   • Sunaina Maira

   Pages 99-113

9. Schooling the Enemy Within: Politics and Pedagogy

   • Khawlah Ahmed

   Pages 115-130

10. The Prevent Policy and the Values Discourse: Muslims and Racial Governmentality

    • Shamim Miah

    Pages 131-144

11. Islamophobia in Quebec Secondary Schools: Inquiries into the Experiences of Muslim Male Youth Post-9/11

    • Naved Bakali

    Pages 145-159

12. At the Intersection of Neo-liberalism and Islam: Being a Muslim Woman in Turkish Universities

    • Pınar Enneli, Çağlar Enneli

    Pages 161-178

13. Being Uyghur or Being Muslim? – Identity Construction of Tertiary-Level Uyghur Students in China

    • Mingyue Gu, Xiaoyan Guo

    Pages 179-198

14. Educating Muslim Students: Late Modernity, Masculinity, Inclusion/Exclusion and the Neo-liberal School

    • Máirtín Mac an Ghaill, Chris Haywood

    Pages 199-215

15. Muslim Narratives of Schooling in Britain: From ‘Paki’ to the ‘Would-Be Terrorist’

    • Tania Saeed

    Pages 217-231

16. Back Matter

    Pages 233-242

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This edited collection brings together international leading scholars to explore why the education of Muslim students is globally associated with radicalisation, extremism and securitisation. The chapters address a wide range of topics, including neoliberal education policy and globalization; faith-based communities and Islamophobia; social mobility and inequality; securitisation and counter terrorism; and shifting youth representations. Educational sectors from a wide range of national settings are discussed, including the US, China, Turkey, Canada, Germany and the UK; this international focus enables comparative insights into emerging identities and subjectivities among young Muslim men and women across different educational institutions, and introduces the reader to the global diversity of a new generation of Muslim students who are creatively engaging with a rapidly changing twenty-first century education system.  The book will appeal to those with an interest in race/ethnicity, Islamophobia, faith and multiculturalism, identity, and broader questions of education and social and global change.

• community
• education
• neoliberalism
• political science
• political theory
• politics
• schooling
• islam

“A fresh, focused attempt to explore Muslim identities by going beyond old tropes such as  ‘diversity’ and ‘extremism’. Mac an Ghaill and Haywood have drawn together writers who understand race and faith in terms of living, changing relationships and who are rethinking the how education is implicated in today’s moral panics over Muslim youth.” (Paul Warmington, Centre for Research in Race and Education, University of Birmingham, UK)

• Graduate School, Newman University , Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Máirtín Mac an Ghaill

• Media and Cultural Studies, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  Chris Haywood

Máirtín Mac an Ghaill is Professor of Education at Newman University, UK.  He is the author of The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexuality  and Schooling.  He has published several books and articles with Chris Haywood, including Men and Masculinities and Education and Masculinities: Social, Cultural and Global Transformations.  He is currently researching Muslim men and masculinities.


Chris Haywood is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. His main interest is men and masculinities, and he is currently exploring the emergence of new sexual cultures with a particular focus on anonymous sex with strangers.  This is part of a broader study on men’s dating practices with a particular focus on mobile dating, online dating and speed dating.  Overall, he is interested in pushing the conceptual limits of masculinity models to consider ways of gendering that are not reducible tomasculinity or femininity.

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