This is the published version Mansouri, Fethi 2010, Local governance, intercultural tension and the racialisation of Muslims in the West, in Muslims in Australia : the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic., pp.250- 269. Available from Deakin Research Online http://hdl.handle.net/ͳͲͷ3/DRO/DU:3ͲͲ3Ͳ3ͳͲ Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner Copyright: 2010, Melbourne University Press