French Muslims in Perspective

• Eschews essentialist and orientalist analyses of French Muslims- Sheds light on previously under-examine areas such as activist work, social movements, political and media representations of Muslims in France- Puts French Muslims into comparative perspective, integrating them into the broader discussions of race, class, multiculturalism, gender and social movement theory from across Europe and the USA.

  Eschews essentialist and orientalist analyses of French Muslims Sheds light on previously under-examine areas such as activist work, social movements, political and media representations of Muslims in France Puts French Muslims into comparative perspective, integrating them into the broader discussions of race, class, multiculturalism, gender and social movement theory from across Europe and the USA

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Dr Joseph Downing is LSE Fellow nationalism in the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, where he teaches courses on global policy and security. He was previously Marie-Curie fellow at the Laboratoire méditerranéen de sociologie, CNRS, Université Aix-Marseille Marseille and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where he conducted a project on the discourses created about British and French Muslims on Twitter. He has published widely on politics, security and integration in France, concentrating on minority communities.

Inhalt

1. Introducing 'French Muslims' and Banality: Beyond Essentialism, Exceptionalism and Saslaciousness.- 2. Many Republics, Many Solitudes: Europeanisation, Politics, Islam, Ethnicity and the State in France.- 3. Liberating France from Fascism and Upholding Civil Liberties: French Muslims Soldiering and Policing for the Republic.- 4. Confronting Orientalism, Colonialism and Determinism: Deconstructing Contemporary French Jihadism.- 5. Gender, Orientalism and Muslims in France: Culture, Masculinity, Violence and Sexuality.- 6. The Cultural Paradoxes of Frenchness: Cultural Nationalism, Social Boundaries and French Muslims in Broader Discursive Perspective.- 7. Conclusions on French Muslims.