Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University. A sociologist and criminologist, his research interests include Islamophobia, hate crime, state crime and the ‘war on terror’.

He is co-author of Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other, and co-editor of Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West (Routledge, 2016) and Media, Crime and Racism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

• Davidson, Alastair. “The uses and abuses of Gramsci.” Thesis Eleven 95, no. 1 (2008): 68-94.
• Larrain, Jorge. “Stuart Hall and the Marxist concept of ideology.” Theory, Culture & Society 8, no. 4 (1991): 1-28.
• Poynting, Scott. “The attack on ‘political correctness’: Islamophobia and the erosion of multiculturalism in Australia under the Howard regime.” Social Alternatives 27, no. 1 (2008): 5-10.