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Fabricating Difference (Paperback)
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Fabricating Difference (Paperback)
Series: Working with Culture on the Edge
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The fabrication of groups as different, as other, often has
significant consequences, including violence and discrimination.
This volume focuses on the discourses that construct Islam in the
aftermath of traumatic events and thus illustrates how academic
analysis of the fabrication of difference can contribute
significantly to public discourse. It centers on two critical
analyses by accomplished scholars who have written publicly on the
constructions of Islam and Muslims as others. Mayanthi Fernando
analyzes the rhetoric surrounding French laicite (often translated
as secularism) in the aftermath of the attack on Charlie Hebdo in
Paris in 2015, highlighting the ways the majority uses the language
of laicite to diminish the presence of minorities. Aaron Hughes
analyzes how scholars and others construct Islam in response to
acts of violence attributed to people who identify with Islam, thus
illustrating how critical academic analysis can contribute to the
understanding of both the contestation and ideology behind groups
such as ISIS. Ten early career scholars apply and extend the
questions and approaches of these central essays in short
reflections that apply these issues in new ways to other contexts
(e.g., India, the United States, early Christianity) and topics
(e.g., social issues in politics, religion vs. non-religion,
nationalism, scholars in public discourse). The volume concludes
with a substantive Afterword that broadens from these specific
current events to present an extended analysis of the fabrication
of difference and the ways recognizing these processes should
influence our scholarship and our engagement with public discourse.
In addressing the ways people construct difference and the Other,
this volume, therefore, provides one answer to the question of the
relevance of these fields in a period of both political challenge
and internal critique of the assumption of the universality of
academic research.
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