The Charlie Hebdo Affair and Comparative Journalistic Cultures: Human Rights Versus Religious Rites

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The Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack of January 7, 2015 shook French journalism to the core and reverberated around the world, triggering a cascade of responses from journalists, media outlets, cartoonists and caricaturists from diverse geographies of freedom of expression and journalistic cultures. This book is a multifaceted case study that describes and explains sameness and difference in diverse journalistic conceptualizations of the Charlie Hebdo affair from a comparative, international perspective. It explores how different journalistic traditions, cultures, worldviews and styles conceptualized and reacted to the clash between freedom of expression and respect for religious sentiments in the context of terrorism, where those sentiments are imposed on the media and secular societies through intimidation, coercion and violence. The book analyzes the political and cultural clashes between the core human right of freedom of expression, and rite of respect for religious sentiments, which is situated on the outer periphery of the human right of freedom of religion. It also examines how media outlets, editors, and cartoonists from different politico-cultural contexts and journalistic cultures in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America, addressed the delicate issue of Mohammed cartoons in general, and the problem of (re)publication of the controversial Charlie Hebdo Je Suis Charlie Mohammed cartoon, in particular. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction: The Charlie Hebdo Affair as a Global “Meta-Media Event” (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 1-30 Front Matter ....Pages 31-31 Journalistic (Battle)fields, Cultures, Mentalities, and Proximities (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 33-52 Charlie Hebdo and French Collective Memory: Origins of the Right to Caricature (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 53-91 Genesis of the Charlie Hebdo Affair: The Clash of Human Rights and Religious Rites (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 93-129 Front Matter ....Pages 131-131 The Charlie Hebdo Affair, Freedom of Expression, and Apologia for Terrorism Under French Law (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 133-155 The Charlie Hebdo Terrorist Attack and European Journalistic Solidarity (with Lea Hellmueller) (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 157-179 The Charlie Hebdo Affair in the Journalistic Field of the United Kingdom (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 181-202 The Charlie Hebdo Affair in Turkey: Balancing Human Rights and Religious Rites (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 203-220 The Charlie Hebdo Affair and the Right to Take Offense: Religious Sensibilities Versus Freedom of Expression in India (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 221-255 The Charlie Hebdo Affair in Three African Journalistic Fields (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 257-282 The Charlie Hebdo Affair and Transnational Solidarity in three Journalistic Battle(fields) of Latin America (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 283-317 The Charlie Hebdo Affair in the American Journalistic Field (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 319-346 One Country, Two Journalistic Cultures: The Charlie Hebdo Affair in the Bi-cultural Journalistic Field of Canada (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 347-380 Afterword and Afterthoughts (Lyombe Eko)....Pages 381-423 Back Matter ....Pages 425-452