Islamophobia and surveillance : genealogies of a global order

Abstract

This special issue asserts that the reasons for the surveillance order are to be found in the specific nature of the figure of the Muslim, and its genealogies over centuries – the focus of this special issue. The particularities of Islamophobia in today’s global war against Muslim terrorism demand a constant expansion – a sort of imperialism – of surveillance. This is the origin, missed in the literature, of the recent creation of security states, including permanent states of exception, in Europe.