After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech

ISBN 10: 1783609397 / ISBN 13: 9781783609390

Published by Zed Books, 2017

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• Title: After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783609397
• ISBN 13: 9781783609390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

As the world looked on in horror at the Paris terror attacks of January and November 2015, France found itself at the centre of a war that has split across nations and continents. The attacks set in motion a steady creep towards ever more repressive state surveillance, and have fuelled the resurgence of the far right across Europe and beyond, while leaving the left dangerously divided. These developments raise profound questions about a number of issues central to contemporary debates, including the nature of national identity, the limits to freedom of speech, and the role of both traditional and social media.

After Charlie Hebdo brings together an international range of scholars to assess the social and political impact of the Paris attacks in Europe and beyond. Cutting through the hysteria that has characterised so much of the initial commentary, it seeks to place these events in their wider global context, untangling the complex symbolic web woven around 'Charlie Hebdo' to pose the fundamental question - how best to combat racism in our supposedly 'post-racial' age?

About the Authors

Des Freedman is a Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of The Politics of Media Policy, co-author (with James Curran and Natalie Fenton) of Misunderstanding the Internet, co-editor (with Michael Bailey) of The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance and co-editor (with Daya Thussu) of Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives. He is particularly interested in issues of media power and media reform. He is the chair of the UK Media Reform Coalition and on the national council of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom. He is an editor of the journal Global Media and Communication and a member of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre.

Gholam Khiabany is a senior lecturer in the Dept of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Aurelien Mondon is Professor of Politics at the University of Bath, UK and co-convenor of the Reactionary Politics Research Network. His research focuses predominantly on the mainstreaming of reactionary politics through elite discourse. He is the author of The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia: A Populist Hegemony? (2013) and co-author of Reactionary democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream (2020) with Aaron Winter. He is the co-editor of After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, racism and free speech (2017) and The Ethics of Researching the Far Right (2024). His work has appeared in various mainstream and expert outlets around the world, including CNN, The Guardian, The Independent, Libération, Newsweek, Le Soir, Mediapart and Al Jazeera.