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The Event of Charlie Hebdo: Imaginaries of Freedom and Control

By Gisela Welz , Alessandro Zagato

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2015
ISBN
1785330756 , 9781785330759, 9781785330766
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1248740 bytes)
Series
Critical Interventions : A Forum for Social Analysis
Pages
120\120
Time added
2019-01-06 20:52:00
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Description

The January 2015 shooting at the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the subsequent attacks that took place in the Île-de-France region were staggeringly violent events. They sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals from around Europe and beyond. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life, including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection of essays aims to serve as a contribution as well as a critical response to that discussion. The volume observes that the events being attributed to Charlie Hebdo go beyond sensationalist reports of the mainstream media, transcend the spatial confines of nation states, and lend themselves to an ever-expanding number of mutating discursive formations. The Event of Charlie Hebdo......Page 1 Contents......Page 5 Introduction:......Page 7 The Barbariat and Democratic Tolerance......Page 18 Charlie Hebdo......Page 31 The Thoughtcrimes of an Eight-Year-Old......Page 42 Imaginaries of Violence and Surrogates for Politics......Page 49 Where Were You, Charlie?......Page 62 Moral, All-Too Moral......Page 73 On Blasphemy......Page 89 Afterword......Page 99

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