After Charlie Hebdo : terror, racism and free speech / edited by Gavan Titley, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany and Aurélien Mondon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Titley, Gavan, editor.

Freedman, Des, 1962- editor.

Khiabany, Gholam, editor.

Mondon, Aurélien, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of speech--Europe--History--21st century.

Freedom of speech.

Terrorism--France--Paris--History--21st century.

Terrorism.

Racism--Europe--History--21st century.

Racism.

Charlie Hebdo Attack, Paris, France, 2015.

History.

Europe.

France--Paris.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

313 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Zed, 2017.

Summary:

"The [Paris terror attacks of January and November 2015] set in motion a steady creep towards ever more repressive state surveillance, and have fuelled the resurgence of the far right across Europe and beyond, while leaving the left dangerously divided These developments raise profound questions about a number of issues central to contemporary debates, including the nature of national identity, the limits to freedom of speech, and the role of both traditional and social media. [This book] brings together international scholars to assess the social and political impact of the Paris attacks in Europe and beyond. Cutting through the hysteria that has characterised so much of the initial commentary, it seeks to place these events in their wider global context, untangling the complex symbolic web woven around 'Charlie Hebdo' to pose the fundamental question - how best to combat racism in our suppposedly 'post-racial' age?"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: Becoming symbolic : from Charlie Hebdo to "Charlie Hebdo" / Gavan Titley

Charlie Hebdo, republican secularism and Islamophobia / Aurélien Mondon and Aaron Winter

Meaning of "Charlie" : the debate on the troubled French identity / Philippe Marlière

After the drama : the institutionalisation of gossiping about Muslims / Valérie Amiraux and Arber Fetiu

Double-bind situation? : the depoliticisation of violence and the politics of compensation / Abdellali Hajjat

Whiteness of innocence : Charlie Hebdo and the metaphysics of anti-terrorism in Europe / Nicholas De Genova

Visible hand of the state / Gholam Khiabany

Symbolic politics with brutally real effects : when "nobodies" make history / Markha Valenta

Extremism, theirs and ours : Britain's "generational struggle" / Arun Kundnani

From Jyllands-Posten to Charlie Hebdo : domesticating the Mohammed cartoons / Carolina Sanchez Boe

#JeSuisCharlie, #JeNeSuisPasCharlie and ad hoc publics / Simon Dawes

Mediated narratives as competing histories of the present / Annabelle Sreberny

Media power and the framing of the Charlie Hebdo attacks / Des Freedman

We hate to quote Stanley Fish, but : "there is no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too." Or is it? / Bill Grantham and Toby Miller

Jouissance and submission : "free speech", colonial diagnostics and psychoanalytic responses to Charlie Hebdo / Anne Mulhall

Not afraid / Ghassan Hage

"Je suis Juif" : Charlie Hebdo and the remaking of antisemitism / Alana Lentin

Race, caste and gender in France / Christine Delphy

Ideology of the Holy Republic as part of the colonial counter-revolution / Selim Nadi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783609390

1783609397

9781783609383

1783609389

OCLC:

1012865891