Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe Memory, Aesthetics, Art

Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social.
Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies in this volume explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam.
From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics.

Info autore

Frank Peter is assistant professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His current research concerns the intersection of Islam, secularism and Islamophobia in France. Sarah Dornhof is currently doing her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Her research deals with the question of offending images in the context of visual culture, secularism and Islam. Elena Arigita is a senior researcher at Casa Arabe-IEAM. She is currently working on transnationalism with regard to Islamic movements and on narratives of Islam in Europe.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Sarah Dornhof (Editore), Frank Peter (Editore), Elena Arigita (Editore)
• Editore: Transcript
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 02.10.2013
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9783837621761
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-2176-1
• Numero di pagine: 268
• Illustrazioni: 15 schw.-w. u. 20 farb. Abb.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.2 x 22.5 x 1.9 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 534 g
• Serie: Globaler lokaler Islam
• Categorie: Soziologie, Geschichte, Islam, Politikwissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaften, Historie, Völkerkunde, Cultural Studies, Weltreligionen, Wissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaften, Weltreligionen / Islam, Religion / Weltreligionen, Islam / Gesellschaft, Politik / Politikwissenschaft, Politologie, International (Politik), Europa / Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Technik, Verkehr, Gesellschaft / Politik, Staat, Zeitgeschichte, Ethnologie - Ethnisch, Ethnografie - Ethnographie