Ivan Kalmar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Over his career, much of his work has focused on the image of Jews and Muslims in western cultural history. He is the author of Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power (Routledge) and co-editor of the volume, Orientalism and the Jews. More recently, Kalmar's work has focused on illiberalism in the European Union, and especially in Central Europe. He has guest-edited a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, dealing with Islamophobia in the East of the European Union, and a special issue on Islamophobia in Germany: East/West, for the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. His latest book is White But Not Quite: Central Europe's Illiberal Revolt (2022). A special issue on Race and the East of the European Union, co-edited by Kalmar, is scheduled to be published by the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies in the spring of 2022.

Nitzan Shoshan is Professor of Anthropology in the Centro de Estudios Sociológicos at El Colegio de México. His prize-winning book, The Management of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany (2016) is an ethnographic study of young right-wing extremist groups in East Berlin. He has guest-edited a special issue of Anthropological Quarterly on post-Fordist Affect and a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies on Islamophobia in Germany: East/West. His work has focused on nationalism and the far right in Germany and Europe. He has also written on urban marginality in Mexico and on the ethics of ethnographic fieldwork. Recently, his research has increasingly focused as well on the far right in Latin America. In parallel, he is currently completing a project on the social life of "Heimat" and its relation with political immediacy and the rise of the far right in the Brandenburg countryside.

Preface Introduction: Islamophobia in Germany, East/West 1. The east is just like the west, only more so: Islamophobia and populism in Eastern Germany and the East of the European Union 2. Building a new nation: anti-Muslim racism in post-unification Germany 3. Islamophobia East-West and the politics of hospitality in contemporary Germany 4. Gendered identities and German Islamophobias 5. 'The burqa is not us (wir sind nicht burka)': strategic Islamophobia and the mainstreaming of nativist appeals 6. Islamophobia and anti-Muslim feeling in Saxony - theoretical approaches and empirical findings based on population surveys