Eric Mace and Dibyesh Anand, 2nd February 2008
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Eric Mace describes the position of Muslims in France, how their presence reflects the legacy of French colonialism in North Africa, and how communities have been subject to stereotyping which works to question their position in relation to French national identity and citizenship. Dibyesh Anand charts some of the rhetoric by which Hindu nationalist extremists continue to position Muslims in India as beyond, and not really belonging to, the nation.
Eric Mace Hegemony and counter-hegemony in the television performance of racial differences in France
Eric Macé is Professor in Sociology and Cultural Studies in the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and EHESS (affiliated to the research group CADIS). He wrote on media sociology theories and on the political and media shaping of contemporary Frenchness. He recently published: Stuart Hall, une introduction, Paris, éditions Amsterdam, 2007 ; "Comment mesurer les discriminations ethnoraciales à la télévision ? Une comparaison internationale", dans Isabelle Rigoni (dir.), Qui a peur de la télévision en couleurs ? La diversité culturelle dans les médias, Montreuil, éditions Aux lieux d'être, 2007 ; "Des minorités visibles aux néo-stéréotypes : les enjeux des régimes de monstration télévisuelle des différences ethnoraciales", Journal des anthropologues, Hors série "Identités nationales d'Etat", 2007 ; Les imaginaires médiatiques. Une sociologie postcritique des médias, Paris, éditions Amsterdam, 2006.
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Eric Mace describes the position of Muslims in France, how their presence reflects the legacy of French colonialism in North Africa, and how communities have been subject to stereotyping which works to question their position in relation to French national identity and citizenship. He describes the prevalence of certain negative stereotypes and how attempts have been made to counter these with more positive versions of French Muslimness, before considering whether a move beyond stereotypes can be seen in some recent cultural forms.
Dibyesh Anand Framing a Danger? The "Muslim Problem" in the Hindu Nationalist Imagination.
Dibyesh Anand is Reader in International Relations at Westminster University's Centre for the Study of Democracy. His interests and publications are on themes of representation, identity, politics and security. His monograph Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2007 and his book Hindu Nationalism and Politics of Security in India is forthcoming in 2008 with Palgrave Macmillan. In addition, he has published more than a dozen articles in journals and edited collections on Tibet, Hindu nationalism, and Security.
Brief Description
Dibyesh Anand charts some of the rhetoric by which Hindu nationalist extremists continue to position Muslims in India as beyond, and not really belonging to, the nation. He notes the prevalence in this discourse of images of aberrant sexuality and argues that such crude stereotyping actually has a long history inextricably linked to the development of Hindu political consciousness in the twentieth century, with its own anxieties about masculinity and the body, and how the construction of the Muslim Other continues to serve the Indian nation’s sense of it’s own limits and security needs.
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