After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech

ISBN-13: 9781783609383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 328 str.

Gavan Titley; Des Freedman; Gholam Khiabany

Opis

As the world looked on in horror at the Paris terror attacks in 2015, France found itself at the center of a conflict, which has had consequences that extend far beyond France itself. The attacks set in motion a steady creep towards ever more repressive state surveillance and security measures, and they fuelled the resurgence of the far right across Europe, while leaving the left dangerously divided. Consequently, these developments raise profound questions about the meanings and limits of such concepts as secularism, multiculturalism, and freedom of speech today.

After Charlie Hebdo brings together an international range of contributors to assess the symbolic and political impact of the Paris attacks in Europe and beyond. Cutting through the hysteria that has characterised so much of the initial commentary on the attacks, the essays place these events in a wider international context, exploring such key issues as the shifting meanings of secularism in postcolonial France, the role of the media, the politics of free expression, and how best to combat racism and Islamophobia.

Spis treści

Introduction: Becoming Symbolic: From Charlie Hebdo to ‘Charlie Hebdo’ - Gavan Titley Part I: The Contested Republic 1. Charlie Hebdo, Republican Secularism and Islamophobia - Aurélien Mondon & Aaron Winter 2. The Meaning of 'Charlie': The Debate on the Troubled French Identity - Philippe Marlière 3. After the Drama: The Institutionalization of Gossiping about Muslims - Valérie Amiraux & Arber Fetiu 4. A Double-bind Situation? The Depoliticization of Violence and the Politics of Compensation - Abdellali Hajjat Part II: The Long ‘War on Terror’ 5. The Whiteness of Innocence: Charlie Hebdo and the Metaphysics of Anti-terrorism in Europe - Nicholas De Genova 6. The Visible Hand of the State - Gholam Khiabany 7. Symbolic Politics with Brutally Real Effects: When ‘Nobodies’ Makes History - Markha Valenta 8. Extremism, Theirs and Ours: Britain’s ‘Generational Struggle’- Arun Kundnani Part III: Media Events and Media Dynamics 9. From Jyllands-Posten to Charlie Hebdo: Domesticating the Mohammed Cartoons - Carolina Sanchez Boe 10. #JeSuisCharlie, #JeNeSuisPasCharlie and Ad Hoc Publics - Simon Dawes 11. Mediated Narratives as Competing Histories of the Present - Annabelle Sreberny Part IV: The Politics of Free Speech 12. Media Power and the Framing of the Charlie Hebdo attacks - Des Freedman 13. We Hate to Quote Stanley Fish, but ‘There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech and It’s a Good Thing Too’. Or Is It? - Bill Grantham & Toby Miller 14. Jouissance and Submission: ‘Free Speech’, Colonial Diagnostics and Psychoanalytic Responses to Charlie Hebdo - Anne Mulhall Part V: Racism and Anti-racism in ‘Postracial’ Times 15. Not Afraid - Ghassan Hage 16. 'Je Suis Juif': Charlie Hebdo and the Remaking of Antisemitism - Alana Lentin 17. Race, Caste and Gender in France - Christine Delphy 18. The Ideology of the Holy Republic as Part of the Colonial Counter-Revolution - Selim Nadi