After Charlie Hebdo: terror, racism and free speech

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An incisive and timely analysis of the impact the Paris terror attacks have had on today's struggles over multiculturalism, integration and freedom of speech. Introduction: Becoming symbolic : from Charlie Hebdo to "Charlie Hebdo" / Gavan Titley -- Charlie Hebdo, republican secularism and Islamophobia / Aurélien Mondon and Aaron Winter -- Meaning of "Charlie" : the debate on the troubled French identity / Philippe Marlière -- After the drama : the institutionalisation of gossiping about Muslims / Valérie Amiraux and Arber Fetiu -- Double-bind situation? : the depoliticisation of violence and the politics of compensation / Abdellali Hajjat -- Whiteness of innocence : Charlie Hebdo and the metaphysics of anti-terrorism in Europe / Nicholas De Genova -- Visible hand of the state / Gholam Khiabany -- Symbolic politics with brutally real effects : when "nobodies" make history / Markha Valenta -- Extremism, theirs and ours : Britain's "generational struggle" / Arun Kundnani -- From Jyllands-Posten to Charlie Hebdo : domesticating the Mohammed cartoons / Carolina Sanchez Boe -- #JeSuisCharlie, #JeNeSuisPasCharlie and ad hoc publics / Simon Dawes -- Mediated narratives as competing histories of the present / Annabelle Sreberny -- Media power and the framing of the Charlie Hebdo attacks / Des Freedman -- We hate to quote Stanley Fish, but : "there is no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too." Or is it? / Bill Grantham and Toby Miller -- Jouissance and submission : "free speech", colonial diagnostics and psychoanalytic responses to Charlie Hebdo / Anne Mulhall -- Not afraid / Ghassan Hage -- "Je suis Juif" : Charlie Hebdo and the remaking of antisemitism / Alana Lentin -- Race, caste and gender in France / Christine Delphy -- Ideology of the Holy Republic as part of the colonial counter-revolution / Selim Nadi.