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SUMMARY:Self defence is no offence: Resisting racialization and criminali
 zation of Muslims in neoliberal Britain
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for this event\, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Se
 ries.\n\nThe seminar will present findings from an on-going study explor
 ing the context and aftermath of the 'grooming' scandals that came to do
 minate headlines in the popular press.  The 'grooming' scandals referred
  to revelations that groups of men had been sexually abusing scores of y
 oung girls in several towns in the UK. The subsequent discourse racializ
 ed South Asian men and held the culture of Muslim communities in particu
 lar to be the main cause.\n\nFollowing the emergence of the 'grooming' s
 candal\, violent anti-Muslim racism has taken place on a regular basis i
 n the towns affected. In Rotherham\, 81-year old Muslim grandfather Mush
 in Ahmed was beaten and stamped to death by two white men who repeatedly
  referred to him as a 'groomer' during the assault. More than a dozen fa
 r-right demonstrations have taken place in Rotherham since news of the s
 candal broke. Multiple interviewees from within Rotherham have spoken of
  the town being 'under siege' from organised fascists. In an unprecedent
 ed move\, Muslim communities within Rotherham unanimously agreed to boyc
 ott South Yorkshire police for not taking racist attacks against Muslims
  seriously and a national defence campaign was launched to have charges 
 dropped against 12 local Muslim men charged with serious offences after 
 responding to repeated instances of far-right provocation.\n\nThe event 
 posits that the rhetoric and actions of local liberal elites\, in additi
 on to the expected hostility from far-right and conservative agitators\,
  served to exacerbate rather than ameliorate the targeting of Muslims wi
 th Rotherham. Using the events in Rotherham as a case study\, the event 
 presents an in-depth\, localised analysis of racial neoliberalism in Bri
 tain today where race\, class\, gender and anti-Muslim racism intertwine
 .
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Room 2.07\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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