
The Event of Charlie Hebdo
Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Alessandro Zagato(Editor)
Berghahn Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-1-78533-075-9 (ISBN)
Description
The January 2015 shooting at the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the subsequent attacks that took place in the Ile-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.
Reviews / Votes
"The year that ended for France with the coordinated attacks on Paris in November 2015 began long ago with the January attack on the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Although the memory already seems distant, ten months is not much time in academia; it usually takes almost that long for a finished manuscript to reach publication, but in this diminutive volume we have nine essays composed, edited, and published in an outstandingly timely manner, in both senses of the term-that ten months is not much time, and that once again it is time to make sense of an Islamic assault on a Western country." ? Anthropology Review DatabaseMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1 Figures
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 108 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
105 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78533-075-9 (9781785330759)
DOI
10.3167/9781785330759
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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.
Content
Introduction: The Event of Charlie Hebdo - Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Bjorn 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
Bjorn 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