Amelia Johns - ISS 18 Battle for the Flag

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Amelia Johns

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First published 2015

Text Amelia Johns, 2014

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Johns, Amelia, author.

Battle for the flag / Amelia Johns.

9780522867350 (paperback)

9780522867367 (ebook)

9780522869170 (hardback)

Islamic studies series; 18.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Many people contributed to the successful completion of this book, and I am humbled by the input and support that they have provided along the way.

Since the manuscript started its journey as a doctoral thesis, I would first like to thank my supervisor, Mark Davis, whose intellectual and practical guidance was instrumental in getting me to the finishing line. I would also like to acknowledge Ghassan Hage and Fran Martin, both of whom provided generous support and guidance during the completion of the thesis, and have championed the development of the book in one way or another. Special mention must also go to Michele Grossman and Jenny Sharples, who provided me with the opportunity to work with them on Dont Go There: Young Peoples Perspectives on Community Safety and Policing, a project that ended up being formative for the development of .

I would like to offer my deepest thanks and sincere gratitude to several people who recognised the potential of my doctoral thesis and helped me in transforming those ideas into a book. I would first and foremost like to thank Amanda Third for her generous mentorship and guidance, without which I very much doubt that the book would have made it to a publisher at all. Thanks also must go to Shahram Akbarzadeh, Sally Heath and Catherine McInnis who recognised the potential contribution that the book might make to a broader field of research and set of questions than I had envisaged myself, and helped to guide it to print.

There are so many colleagues, friends and loved ones who nurtured the development of the book through their intellectual generosity, friendship and mentorship that it is impossible to thank them all, but I would like to dearly thank Anthony McCosker, Fethi Mansouri, Michele Lobo, Michele Grossman, Greg Noble, Rowan Wilken, Anoop Nayak, Andy Furlong, Kevin McDonald, Craig Fry, Jens Zinn, Peter Kelly, Annelies Kamp, Tanja Dreher, Meg Mundell, Elizabeth Angel, Micaela Sahhar, Benjamin Isakhan, Vince Marotta, David Tittensor, Virginie Andre, James Barry, Riccardo Amillieri, Jessica Walton, Cayla Edwards, Yassir Morsi, Reem Faiq and countless other colleagues from the Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) and The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Youth and Risk Societies thematic groups, for their belief and guidance. I would also like to extend special thanks to Paula Muraca, for generously and carefully editing the final manuscript.

For their love, encouragement and care through many years and countless declarations that I am almost finished, I thank my family and friends. Also, and especially, I thank my parents and my partner Meagan, for their tireless love and support, and for staying the course with me. I would also like to acknowledge with a sense of sadness and heartfelt thanks the recent passing of Ulrich Beck, whose body of work has provided the single most important scholarly influence on this book as well as my research more broadly.