David Stroup shortlisted for the Ethnic and Racial Studies Martin Bulmer Prize
David Stroup鈥檚 article 鈥楲oathsome Hui parasites: Islamophobia, ethnic chauvinism, and popular responses to the 2020 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak鈥� was shortlisted by the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies for the annual prize.
is a Senior Lecturer of Chinese Politics at The University of 野狼社区.
In his , he examines the discourse around Wuhan鈥檚 Party Secertary Ma Guoqiang, an ethnic Hui Muslim.
Using discourse analysis of posts regarding Ma from January and February 2020, the paper examines how online discussion of Ma exemplifies Islamophobic attitudes of netizens, and illuminates the exclusory ethnic politics that unfold in the process of national boundary setting in China.
These findings also illuminate how Muslims become scapegoats for crisis in non-Muslim countries, particularly those under authoritarian governance.
Stroup鈥檚 article contributed to the INTERSECT Project, a collaborative study of the global flows of Islamophobia led by Iselin Frydenlund and Torkel Brekke at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo.