The Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project (IRDP) is housed by the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley, USA which focuses on a systematic and empirical approach to the study of Islamophobia and its impact on the Muslim community. Today, Muslims in the U.S., parts of Europe, and around the world have been transformed into a demonized and feared global "other," subjected to legal, social, and political discrimination.
The challenge for understanding the current cultural and political period centers on providing a more workable and encompassing definition for the Islamophobia phenomenon, a theoretical framework to anchor present and future research, and a centralized mechanism to document and analyze diverse data sets from around the U.S. and in comparison with other areas around the world.
Dr. Hatem Bazian is the Director of Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project and the annual Islamophobia conference.
The challenge for understanding the current cultural and political period centers on providing a more workable and encompassing definition for the Islamophobia phenomenon, a theoretical framework to anchor present and future research, and a centralized mechanism to document and analyze diverse data sets from around the U.S. and in comparison with other areas around the world.
Dr. Hatem Bazian is the Director of Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project and the annual Islamophobia conference.
Founded in 1981, CADIS (Center for Sociological Analysis and Intervention) is a sociological research laboratory that combines research in a wide range of areas with an integrated intellectual approach to research at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. At its inception, the Center was structured around three major programmatic objectives -historical, theoretical, and methodological- by a small team of researchers: Alain Touraine, who founded the Center, François Dubet, Zsuzsa Hegedus, and Michel Wieviorka.