The Event of Charlie Hebdo -

The Event of Charlie Hebdo

Imaginaries of Freedom and Control

Alessandro Zagato (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
124 Seiten
2015
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-075-9 (ISBN)
14,90 inkl. MwSt
The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens & intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.
The January 2015 shooting at the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the subsequent attacks that took place in the Île-de-France region were staggeringly violent events. They sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals from around Europe and beyond. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life, including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection of essays aims to serve as a contribution as well as a critical response to that discussion. The volume observes that the events being attributed to Charlie Hebdo go beyond sensationalist reports of the mainstream media, transcend the spatial confines of nation states, and lend themselves to an ever-expanding number of mutating discursive formations.

Alessandro Zagato is Research Fellow in the Egalitarianism Project at the University of Bergen, Department of Social Anthropology. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Maynooth University, and his research interests include autonomous political movements, aesthetics, and the state. He has been conducting long-term fieldwork among rural communities in the south of Mexico. His most recent publications address the relation between aesthetics and politics in the Zapatista movement.

Introduction: The Event of Charlie Hebdo - Imaginaries of Freedom and Control

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen and Alessandro Zagato





The Barbariat and Democratic Tolerance

Knut Rio

Charlie Hebdo: The West and the Sacred

Axel Rudi

The Thoughtcrimes of an Eight-Year-Old

Maria Dyveke Styve

Imaginaries of Violence and Surrogates for Politics

Alessandro Zagato

Where Were You, Charlie? Contesting Voices of Political Activism in the Wake of a Tragedy

Mari Hanssen Korsbrekke

Moral, All-Too Moral: Satire, Morality, and Charlie Hebdo

Jacob Hjortsberg

On Blasphemy: The Paradoxes of Protecting and Mocking God

Theodoros Rakopoulos



Afterword: When a Joke is Not a Joke? The Paradox of Egalitarianism

Bruce Kapferer

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.9.2015
Reihe/Serie Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 108 x 178 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78533-075-6 / 1785330756
ISBN-13 978-1-78533-075-9 / 9781785330759
Zustand Neuware
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