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Unveiling the French Republic: National Identity, Secularism, and Islam in Contemporary France

Author : Per-Erik Nilsson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004356037
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Unveiling the French Republic: National Identity, Secularism, and Islam in Contemporary France written by Per-Erik Nilsson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islamic Veil Affairs (2003-4 and 2009-2011), which led to the banning of Muslim girls wearing Islamic headscarves in French public schools and women wearing full-face veils in public, have raised serious concerns about the relationship between secularism and the freedom of religious expression. In Unveiling the French Republic: National Identity, Secularism, and Islam in Contemporary France, Per-Erik Nilsson engages in a careful critical analysis of the Veil Affairs. His critique, for the most part, is not on the decision of Muslim women to wear the veil but rather on the misuse of secular ideology to justify religious intolerance and mask ethnic prejudice.

Unveiling the Nation

Author : Emily Laxer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773558039
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Unveiling the Nation written by Emily Laxer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few decades, politicians in Europe and North America have fiercely debated the effects of a growing Muslim minority on their respective national identities. Some of these countries have prohibited Islamic religious coverings in public spaces and institutions, while in others, legal restriction remains subject to intense political conflict. Seeking to understand these different outcomes, social scientists have focused on the role of countries' historically rooted models of nationhood and their attendant discourses of secularism. Emily Laxer's Unveiling the Nation problematizes this approach. Using France and Quebec as illustrative cases, she traces how the struggle of political parties for power and legitimacy shapes states' responses to Islamic signs. Drawing on historical evidence and behind-the-scenes interviews with politicians and activists, Laxer uncovers unseen links between structures of partisan conflict and the strategies that political actors employ when articulating the secular boundaries of the nation. In France's historically class-based political system, she demonstrates, parties on the left and the right have converged around a restrictive secular agenda in order to limit the siphoning of votes by the ultra-right. In Quebec, by contrast, the longstanding electoral salience of the “national question” has encouraged political actors to project highly conflicting images of the province's secular past, present, and future. At a moment of heightened debate in the global politics of religious diversity, Laxer's Unveiling the Nation sheds critical light on the way party politics and its related instabilities shape the secular boundaries of nationhood in diverse societies.

The Politics of the Veil

Author : Joan Wallach Scott
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691147981
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Veil written by Joan Wallach Scott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an explosive refutation of this view, one that bears important implications for us all. Joan Wallach Scott, the renowned pioneer of gender studies, argues that the law is symptomatic of France's failure to integrate its former colonial subjects as full citizens. She examines the long history of racism behind the law as well as the ideological barriers thrown up against Muslim assimilation. She emphasizes the conflicting approaches to sexuality that lie at the heart of the debate--how French supporters of the ban view sexual openness as the standard for normalcy, emancipation, and individuality, and the sexual modesty implicit in the headscarf as proof that Muslims can never become fully French. Scott maintains that the law, far from reconciling religious and ethnic differences, only exacerbates them. She shows how the insistence on homogeneity is no longer feasible for France--or the West in general--and how it creates the very "clash of civilizations" said to be at the root of these tensions. The Politics of the Veil calls for a new vision of community where common ground is found amid our differences, and where the embracing of diversity--not its suppression--is recognized as the best path to social harmony.

Class Struggle in the First French Republic

Author : Daniel Guérin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Class Struggle in the First French Republic written by Daniel Guérin and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Corpus Anarchicum

Author : Hamid Dabashi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137264128
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Corpus Anarchicum written by Hamid Dabashi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a meditation on and an attempt to understand suicidal violence in the immediate context of its most recent political surge: the decade between 2001 and 2011, from the suicidal mission of Muhammad Atta and his band in the United States to the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi in 2010 in Tunisia. After the former a devastating military strike and occupation of two Muslim countries commenced, and after the latter a massive transnational democratic uprising ensued. Suicidal violence is neither specific to Islam nor peculiar to our time. It has been manifested in practically all cultures and religions and throughout human history. But the suicidal violence we witness today is of an entirely different disposition because the bodies (both of the assailant and of the assailed) on which it is perpetrated are no longer the human body of our Enlightenment assumption. What we are witnessing is in fact the contour of a posthuman body. The posthuman body, as Dabashi here proposes, is the body of a contingent and contextual being, and as such an object of disposable knowledge; while the human body that it has superseded was corporeally integral, autonomous, rational, indispensable, and above all the site of a knowing subject.

Modern Warfare

Author : Roger Trinquier
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142891689X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Modern Warfare written by Roger Trinquier and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain

Author : G. Raymond
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230590969
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain written by G. Raymond and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In France the idea that a person can be both a French citizen and have an ethnic or religious identity is unacceptable, while in Britain community cohesion promote the combining of race or faith with the idea of being British. This volume examines the problems posed by these assumptions and the realities that are forcing them to be revisited.

Report

Author : New York (State) Chamber of Commerce of State of New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report written by New York (State) Chamber of Commerce of State of New York and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Separation

Author : Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231557620
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book No Separation written by Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a potent mix of authoritarianism, heterosexism, xenophobia, and ethnoracial nationalism, powerful illiberal Christian movements have upended liberal democracies in countries that were once seen as paradigms of secular governance. Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey offers new insight into the foundations of these movements, demonstrating how they emerge from the contradictions at the intersection of secularism and democracy. No Separation examines recent conflicts that link national identity, religion, and sexuality: debates over Muslim veiling practices in Germany, same-sex marriage in France, and migration and abortion in the United States. In each case, illiberal Christianities portray popular sovereignty as threatened at the same time as they display an obsessive concern with the politics of sex and reproduction. Underlying these conflicts, No Separation shows, is the fundamental tension of democracy—who belongs to “the People.” Viefhues-Bailey argues that when secularism and democracy meet, cultural religions appear, seeking control over women’s bodies, national borders, and the racialized reproduction of the People in defense of the ideal of popular sovereignty. Connecting political theology, political philosophy, and the sociology of religion with gender and sexuality studies, No Separation is a deeply original analysis of the crisis of democracy and the limits of secularism. It also suggests alternative ways of imagining the People, proposing a more humane vision of borders, sexualities, and social bonds.

Historical Collections

Author : Michigan State Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Historical Collections written by Michigan State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Collections

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
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Download or read book Historical Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Torture and the Twilight of Empire

Author : Marnia Lazreg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173486
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Torture and the Twilight of Empire written by Marnia Lazreg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture--its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. Drawing extensively from archives, confessions by former torturers, interviews with former soldiers, and war diaries, as well as writings by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and others, Lazreg argues that occupying nations justify their systematic use of torture as a regrettable but necessary means of saving Western civilization from those who challenge their rule. She shows how torture was central to guerre révolutionnaire, a French theory of modern warfare that called for total war against the subject population and which informed a pacification strategy founded on brutal psychological techniques borrowed from totalitarian movements. Lazreg seeks to understand torture's impact on the Algerian population--especially women--and also on the French troops who became their torturers. She explores the roles Christianity and Islam played in rationalizing these acts, and the ways in which torture became not only routine but even acceptable. Written by a preeminent historical sociologist, Torture and the Twilight of Empire holds particularly disturbing lessons for us today as we carry out the War on Terror.

History of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Author : Mark Bennitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book History of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition written by Mark Bennitt and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Refugee Women

Author : Leah Bassel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136850562
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Refugee Women written by Leah Bassel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called ‘sharia-tribunals’, Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question – does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It contrasts debates in France over the headscarf and in Canada over religious arbitration with the lived experience of a specific group of Muslim women: Somali refugee women. The challenges these women eloquently describe first-hand demonstrate that the fray over accommodating culture and religion neglects other needs and engenders a democratic deficit. In Refugee Women: Beyond Gender versus Culture, new theoretical perspectives recast both the story told and who tells the tale. By focusing on the politics underlying how these debates are framed and the experiences of women at the heart of these controversies, women are considered first and foremost as democratic agents rather than actors in the ‘culture versus gender’ script. Crucially, the institutions and processes created to address women’s needs are critically assessed from this perspective. Breaking from scholarship that focuses on whether the accommodation of culture and religion harms women, Bassel argues that this debate ignores the realities of the women at its heart. In these debates, Muslim women are constructed as silent victims. Bassel pleads compellingly for a consideration of women in all their complexity, as active participants in democratic life. The book will appeal to students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly of sociology, political science and women’s studies.

Michigan Historical Collections

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Michigan Historical Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

General Comte de Rochambeau Statue, Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Report of the Commissioner-general for the United States to the International Universal Exposition, Paris, 1900 ... February 28, 1901

Author : United States. Commission to the Paris Exposition
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Commissioner-general for the United States to the International Universal Exposition, Paris, 1900 ... February 28, 1901 written by United States. Commission to the Paris Exposition and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: