The following subprojects at INTERSECT reflect the overall aims of the project:

1) To explore Islamophobia as a global phenomenon through the analysis of intersecting flows and scalability;

2) To theorize Islamophobia as a global phenomenon;

3) To theorize how Islamophobic dystopias re-configure notions of nationhood.

Dr Iselin Frydenlund

Iselin’s project investigates how Buddhist nationalism in Asia is informed by local, national, and global anti-Muslim currents

Dr Torkel Brekke

Torkel’s project looks at the role of ex-Muslims who build a political career on the supposed dangers of Islam

Dr Cathrine Thorleifsson

Cathrine’s project explores how anti-Muslim imaginaries are produced and circulated by radical nationalists in Scandinavia and North America

Dr Sindre Bangstad

Sindre’s project explores the free-speech/hate-speech conundrum

Dr Moumita Sen

Moumita’s project traces discursive flows of Hindu nationalist ideology between India and the US

Dr Eviane Leidig

Eviane’s project compares the role of women in the far right in India and the West

Esther Sarah Tenberg

Esther’s project looks at nationalist and divisive communication by Buddhist religious actors in Myanmar

Dr Sami Al-Daghistani

Sami’s project looks at what he defines as Islamophobic discourse of political Islam, both as a social reality and as conceptual innovation with references to state actors and their treatment of Islamism in contemporary Egypt

Dr Bharath Ganesh

Bharath’s project focuses on the circulation of Islamophobia in transatlantic far right publics online and investigates the role of social media platforms in the spread of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate.