Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims: Islam in the Plural

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Christopher Flood, Stephen Hutchings, Galina Miazhevich, Henri Nickels
BRILL, Jul 19, 2012 - Social Science - 212 pages
Relations between Muslims and non-Muslims have received unprecedented attention since 9/11. In many predominantly non-Muslim countries intense debates have focused on international relations with Muslim-majority states, but dilemmas of national policy and practice in incorporating domestic Muslim minorities have also provoked heated argument. Meanwhile, within predominantly Muslim societies, and within Muslim diasporas, relationships with non-Muslims have posed pressing questions about compatibility, antagonism or adaptation of beliefs, identities and customs. The essays forming this multidisciplinary collection analyse concerns arising from clashing perceptions of Muslims in the political and cultural spheres: the majority of chapters deal with non-Muslim representations of Muslims, but several chapters reverse the perspective by examining Muslims' own understandings of their relationships with non-Muslim societies.Contributors include: Ahmed K. al-Rawi, Ebru '. Canan-Sokullu, Tereza Capelos, Gaetan Clavien, Danila Genovese, Matteo Gianni, Signe Kjær Jørgensen, Priyasha Kaul, Chloe Patton, Timothy Peace, Mirjam Shatanawi, Dunya van Troost, and John Turner.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Uncovering an Islamic Paradigm of International Relations
11
Through the Mirroring Lens of the Political Self
25
3 Why Wear a Headscarf in Parliament? Danish Secularist Nationalist and Feminist Ideas about Muslims
43
4 People Think Our Lives Are Dark Diasporic Resistance to the Metaphoric Darkening of Female Muslim Identity
61
The Impact of Emotionality and Values on Political Tolerance
75
6 Islamophobia and Turcoscepticism in Europe? A FourNation Study
97
7 Representing Gender Defining Muslims? Gender and Figures of Otherness in Public Discourse in Switzerland
113
8 The French AntiRacist Movement and the Muslim Question
131
9 Foreign Policy and Its Impact on Arab Stereotypes in EnglishLanguage Popular Fiction of the 1970s80s
147
Religion Identity and Nationalism
167
Museums and the Public Debate on Islam
177
References
193
Index
207
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Christopher Flood, D.Phil. (1981) University of Oxford, is Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics, University of Surrey. His books and articles have centred on ideological discourses, political myth, and defensive nationalism. His most recent book (co-authored with Stephen Hutchings, Galina Miazhevich and Henri Nickels) is "Islam, Security and Television News" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Stephen Hutchings, Ph.D. (1987) University of Durham, is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester and President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. He has published widely on the Russian media and recently completed a major grant project on European television representations of Islam. Galina Miazhevich, Ph.D. (2007) University of Manchester, is Gorbachev Media Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. She is also an associate of the Reuters Institute for Journalism, University of Oxford, and was previously a Research Associate at the University of Manchester. She has published extensively on media and socio-cultural change in post-communist societies. Henri C. Nickels, Ph.D. (2005), University of Amsterdam, is Programme Manager - Social Research at the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. He has published articles on the social construction of Muslim and Irish communities, recently including De/constructing Suspect Communities, "Journalism Studies" (2012).

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