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This book is about South-North, North-South relations between
Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians
in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the
people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic,
cultural, and civil society milieus of globalizing societies.
This book is about South-North, North-South relations between
Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians
in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the
people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic,
cultural, and civil society milieus of globalizing societies.
Islam in France is often regarded as a political 'issue' and much
of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary
France over the last three decades have concentrated on the
supposedly 'antagonistic' relationship between France, Islam and
its Muslims. Against such a troubled backdrop, however, this book
looks at the ways in which certain prominent French Muslim
intellectuals seek to articulate a vision of multi-faith
co-existence, which embraces a critical secularism, and which
simultaneously draw on religious and secular humanist traditions.
Intellectuals have historically played a major part in French
public life, yet relatively little is known about the work of
Abdelwahab Meddeb, Malek Chebel, Leila Babes, Dounia Bouzar and
Abdennour Bidar, whose writings and public interventions this book
examines. Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in
contemporary France will be of particular interest to specialists,
undergraduate and post-graduate students working across the
Humanities and Social Sciences from disciplines such as Francophone
Studies, Anthropology, Religious Studies or Sociology. -- .
Islam in France is often regarded as a political 'issue' and much
of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary
France over the last three decades have concentrated on the
supposedly 'antagonistic' relationship between France, Islam and
its Muslims. Against such a troubled backdrop, however, this book
looks at the ways in which certain prominent French Muslim
intellectuals seek to articulate a vision of multi-faith
co-existence, which embraces a critical secularism, and which
simultaneously draw on religious and secular humanist traditions.
Intellectuals have historically played a major part in French
public life, yet relatively little is known about the work of
Abdelwahab Meddeb, Malek Chebel, Leila Babes, Dounia Bouzar and
Abdennour Bidar, whose writings and public interventions this book
examines. Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in
contemporary France will be of particular interest to specialists,
undergraduate and post-graduate students working across the
Humanities and Social Sciences from disciplines such as Francophone
Studies, Anthropology, Religious Studies or Sociology. -- .
The 2005 rioting in France's suburbs caught the world's attention
and exposed the limits of the Republic's policies on the
integration of 'immigrant-origin' populations. This book, newly
available in paperback, examines academic and public discourses
about young people of North African origin in France. The
resurgence of such discussions in France, focusing on sensational
questions of urban unrest, Islamic fundamentalism and the
challenges of increasingly assertive cultural identities, means
that it is all the more necessary not to overlook the 'ordinary'
majority of young French-North Africans. Their own preoccupations
often go unnoticed in a context where issues such as violence in
the banlieues and the threat of terrorism are pushed to the fore,
sometimes with devastating consequences in terms of discrimination
and exclusion. The book rebalances and nuances the debates about
post-migrant North African youth by drawing on extensive empirical
research carried out in those suburbs of north-east Paris affected
by the riots. It studies the construction of identity amongst this
invisible majority and, by adopting an ethnographic approach,
addresses the disjuncture between the sometimes inflammatory
discourses about this population and their own experiences. -- .
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