Societal Banopticon: Visibility, Surveillance, and the Exclusion of Migrant Muslims
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
Published online on September 22, 2025
Abstract
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This article theorizes the “Societal Banopticon” to explain informal, community-level surveillance and exclusion that arise when migrant Muslims become publicly visible in non-Muslim-majority contexts. Extending Foucault’s Panopticon and Bigo’s Banopticon,...
This article theorizes the “Societal Banopticon” to explain informal, community-level surveillance and exclusion that arise when migrant Muslims become publicly visible in non-Muslim-majority contexts. Extending Foucault’s Panopticon and Bigo’s Banopticon,...