Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims: Islam in the Plural

221 Pages·2012·2.138 MB·English

by  C Flood, S Hutchings, G Miazhevich, H Nickels (eds.)

Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims
Muslim Minorities
Editors
Jørgen S. Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
Felice Dassetto, University of Louvain-la-Neuve
Aminah McCloud, DePaul University, Chicago
VOLUME 11
The titles published in this series are listed at brill.nl/mumi
Political and Cultural
Representations of Muslims
Islam in the Plural
Edited by
Christopher Flood
Stephen Hutchings
Galina Miazhevich
and
Henri Nickels
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2012
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Political and cultural representations of Muslims : Islam in the plural / edited by Christopher Flood.
  p. cm. -- (Muslim minorities, ISSN 1570-7571 ; v. 11)
 Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors .................................................................................................vii
Introduction ................................................................................................................1
Christopher Flood, Stephen Hutchings, Galina Miazhevich
and Henri Nickels
1. Uncovering an Islamic Paradigm of International Relations ................11
John Turner
2. Representation and Self-Representation of Radical Islamism
in the UK: Through the Mirroring Lens of the Political Self..................25
Danila Genovese
3. Why Wear a Headscarf in Parliament? Danish Secularist,
Nationalist and Feminist Ideas about Muslims ........................................43
Signe Kjær Jørgensen
4. “People Think Our Lives Are Dark.” Diasporic Resistance
to the Metaphoric Darkening of Female Muslim Identity.....................61
Chloe Patton
5. Reason, Passion, and Islam: The Impact of Emotionality
and Values on Political Tolerance .................................................................75
Tereza Capelos and Dunya van Troost
6. Islamophobia and Turcoscepticism in Europe?
A Four-Nation Study ........................................................................................97
Ebru Ş. Canan-Sokullu
7. Representing Gender, Defijining Muslims? Gender and Figures
of Otherness in Public Discourse in Switzerland ...................................113
Matteo Gianni and Gaetan Clavien
8. The French Anti-Racist Movement and the ‘Muslim Question’ ........131
Timothy Peace
9. Foreign Policy and Its Impact on Arab Stereotypes in
English-Language Popular Fiction of the 1970s–80s ...........................147
Ahmed K. al-Rawi
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10. Exploring Anwar: Religion, Identity and Nationalism .......................167
Priyasha Kaul
11.  Curating against Dissent: Museums and the Public
Debate on Islam ............................................................................................177
Mirjam Shatanawi
References ...............................................................................................................193
Index .........................................................................................................................207
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Ahmed K. al-Rawi, Ph.D. (2004) University of Baghdad, Ph.D. (2011)
University of Leicester, teaches Media and Communication at Erasmus
University, Rotterdam. Besides publishing a large number of journal arti-
cles and chapters in edited collections, he has authored two books, includ-
ing Media Practice in Iraq (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Ebru Ş. Canan-Sokullu, Ph.D. (2006) University of Siena, is Assistant
Professor of International Relations, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul. She
has published articles on public opinion and foreign policy in Armed
Forces & Society, South European Society & Politics, and Perceptions: Journal
of International Afffairs.
Tereza Capelos, Ph.D. (2002) Stony Brook University, is Senior Lecturer
in Politics at the University of Surrey, with research specialisms in political
psychology, electoral behaviour, and public opinion. Her recent publica-
tions examine the determinants of candidate reputations, the role of
afffect and emotions in politics, political knowledge and civic IQ, and the
impact of political scandals on accountability attributions.
Gaetan Clavien, Ph.D. (2011) University of Geneva, is Lecturer in Media
and Communication Studies at that university and coordinator of the doc-
toral programme in Political Science of Western Switzerland. Among his
publications, he co-edited the book Racisme, libéralisme et les limites du
tolérable (Geneva: Georg, 2003).
Christopher Flood, D.Phil. (1981) University of Oxford, is Emeritus
Professor in the School of Politics, University of Surrey. His books and arti-
cles 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. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Danila Genovese, Ph.D. (2010) University of Westminster, UK, is a free-
lance researcher, who previously taught in the Centre for Democracy,
University of Westminster. Her research focuses on Middle East Politics,
political Islam and Muslim minorities in the West.
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Matteo Gianni, Ph.D. (1999) University of Geneva, is Associate Professor
in the Department of Political Science of that university and a founding
member of the Group of Researchers on Islam in Switzerland (GRIS). He
recently co-edited the book Musulmans d’aujourd’hui: identités plurielles
en Suisse (Geneva: Labor et Fides, 2009).
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 pub-
lished widely on the Russian media and recently completed a major grant
project on European television representations of Islam.
Signe Kjær Jørgensen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political
Science, University of Copenhagen. She has published chapters and arti-
cles on topics relating to citizenship, journalism and Muslim women. Her
recent publications include a co-authored article in Social Theory and
Health (2011) analysing public debates about Muslim women actively
engaged in party politics.
Priyasha Kaul is a media sociologist in the School of Sociology, Politics
and International Studies, University of Bristol. Her research interests
focus on the intersections of contemporary social issues in media in rela-
tion to nationalism and globalisation.
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 pre-
viously a Research Associate at the University of Manchester. She has pub-
lished 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 commu-
nities, recently including “De/constructing ‘Suspect’ Communities,”
Journalism Studies (2012).
Chloe Patton, Ph.D. (2009) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, is a
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the International Centre for Muslim and
Non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia. She is
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currently working on a book exploring the alternative multicultural
realities of young Muslims in the context of the perceived crisis of
multiculturalism.
Timothy Peace, Ph.D. (2010) European University Institute, is a
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, afffijiliated with the
Alwaleed Centre. His research investigates the relationship between reli-
gion and politics, focusing particularly on Islam in Europe. His work has
been published in journals such as Patterns of Prejudice and Parliamentary
Afffairs.
Mirjam Shatanawi trained in Arabic Studies at the University of
Amsterdam and African/Asian History at SOAS, University of London. She
is Curator of the Middle East and North Africa at the Tropenmuseum in
Amsterdam, for which she has curated exhibitions on Islam, Iran and
Palestine. Her most recent book is a critical analysis of the history of the
Tropenmuseum’s Islamic collections.
Dunya van Troost is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department of
VU University, Amsterdam. Her current research deals with large demon-
strations in Europe, exploring how emotions are related to protest issues
and how they originate in contextual socio-political factors. Her previous
work concerned the links between emotions, political attitudes and per-
ceptions of threat.
John Turner is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Surrey, working on
issues related to terrorism, religion and international politics. He has pre-
viously published on the ideology of jihadist organisations, including
“From Cottage Industry to International Organisation: The Evolution of
Salafiji Jihadism and the al-Qaeda Ideology,” Journal of Terrorism and
Political Violence (2010).