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Dr Malcolm Brown


Name : Dr Malcolm Brown
Position : Senior Lecturer (Social Science)
Section : Faculty of Arts
School of Humanities and Communication
Office : Q220
Location : Toowoomba Campus
Phone : +61 7 4631 1062
Extension : 1062
E-mail :
Qualifications : MA, PhD Glasgow


Languages
LanguageAccredited TranslatorProficiency Levels   *N/A = not available
  SpeakingReadingWriting
FRANo

Research Interests
Sociology of religion
Islam, Orientalism and Islamophobia
Racism and ethnicity
Social enterprise and NGOs

Recent Research Outcomes
Three most recent :
‘Levels of NGO Cooperation and their Empirical Importance’, Development Bulletin, 2013 forthcoming.

‘Conflicting Perspectives’, in A.K. Lautensach and S.W. Lautensach (eds), Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities, Vienna: Caesarpress, 2013 (pp.35-56).

‘The Multi-Faith Ethic and the Spirit of Social Business: Notes from an Ethnography’, The Journal of Social Business, 2 (1): 7-25, 2012.
Most notable :
Book:

Miles, R. & Brown, M.D. (2003), Racism (Second Edition), London: Routledge.

Articles:

‘Levels of NGO Cooperation and their Empirical Importance’, Development Bulletin, 2013 forthcoming.

‘Conflicting Perspectives’, in A.K. Lautensach and S.W. Lautensach (eds), Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities, Vienna: Caesarpress, 2013 (pp.35-56)..

‘The Multi-Faith Ethic and the Spirit of Social Business: Notes from an Ethnography’, The Journal of Social Business, 2 (1): 7-25, 2012.

‘Institutional Islamophobia in the cases of Ahmed Zaoui and Mohamed Haneef’, in D. Ghosh, A. Hayes and R. Mason (eds), Cultures in Refuge: Seeking Sanctuary in Modern Australia, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012 (pp.149-61).

‘Doubt as Methodology and Object in the Phenomenology of Religion’, M/C Journal, 14 (1), 2011 (http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/334).

‘Representations of Islamic Fundamentalism and the Ahmed Zaoui Case’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 21 (4): 331-41, 2010.

‘Islam and the Concept of the Secular’, Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1 (1): 43-60, 2008.

‘Local media representations of Islam before 9/11’, in B. Petersson and K. Tyler (eds), Majority Cultures and the Politics of Ethnic Difference: Whose House is This?, London: Palgrave, 2008 (pp.285-311).

‘Comparative Analysis of Mainstream Discourses, Media Narratives and Representations of Islam in Britain and France Prior to 9/11’, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 26 (3): 297-312, 2006.

‘Reflections on Islam and Pacifism’, Australasian Journal of Human Security, 2 (1): 5-18, 2006.

‘An Ethnographic Reflection on Muslim-Christian Dialogue in the North of France: the Context of Laïcité’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 13 (1): 5-23, 2002.

‘Multiple Meanings of the Hijab in Contemporary France’, in W.J.F. Keenan (ed.), Dressed to Impress: Looking the Part, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001 (pp.105-21).

‘Conceptualising Racism and Islamophobia’, in J. ter Wal and M. Verkuyten (eds), Comparative Perspectives on Racism, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000 (pp.73-90).

‘Orientalism and Resistance to Orientalism: Muslim Identities in Contemporary Western Europe’, in S. Roseneil and J. Seymour (eds), Practising Identities: Power and Resistance, London: Macmillan, 1999 (pp.180-98).

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs
SOC1000 Approaches to the Social Sciences
SOC1001 Conflict and Peace
SOC3000 Collaborative Community Problem Solving
SOC8000 Self, Identity and Society
SOC8001 Islam and the West

Teaching Experience
Tertiary : 18 years

Administrative Responsibilities
Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Social Science
Faculty of Arts Research Committee
Faculty of Arts Program Management Committee