ABSTRACT
The body is a central site for locating, diagnosing, interrogating, and resisting racism. But what of the body in Islamophobia? We do not often think about the body in Islamophobia, but the body is very much central to sustaining the phobic dimension of Islamophobia which is about proximity. The body, to borrow from Derek Hook, “never ‘falls out’ of” Islamophobia despite the repetitive disavowal of its status as a racism. The chapter explores the body in the reoccurring themes that surround the problematization of Muslims as Muslims - as a site of contagion, demographic threats, white extinction, and replacement paranoia.
