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Zusatztext "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 Database Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Investigates how the attacks unveil themselves in the field of representations, and which material consequences these representations may bring about. Looks at how an event is produced, and how it can achieve a wide resonance. Critically addresses egalitarian concepts such as democracy and freedom of speech, illustrating how they can be used for consolidating state power and fomenting identity politics. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
