Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe : : Memory, Aesthetics, Art / / ed. by Elena Arigita, Sarah Dornhof, Frank Peter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arigita, Elena,; Dornhof, Sarah,; El Hissy, Maha,; Gazzah, Miriam,; Gonzalez, Valerie,; Haliloğlu, Nagihan,; Marks, Laura U.,; Peter, Frank,; Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando,; Shaw, Wendy M. K.,; Spielhaus, Riem,; Tyrer, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Arigita, Elena,; Dornhof, Sarah,; Peter, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Globaler lokaler Islam
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)

Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social.Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies in this volume explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam.From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe -- The ‘Cordoba Paradigm’: Memory and Silence around Europe’s Islamic Past -- Culture, Identity and Civilisation: The Arabs and Islam in the History of Spain -- Istanbul’s Multiculturalism Reimagined in Contemporary British Fiction -- Narratives of Belonging and Exclusion: Offering the Museum of Islamic Art as a lieu d’identité for Muslims -- Visual Government and Islamophobia -- Veiled Bodies, Vile Speech -- On Tattoos and other Bodily Inscriptions -- Seeing Difference, Seeing Differently -- Fun and Faith, Music and Muslimness -- Performing Vision -- Confronting Images, Confronted Images -- From Haptic to Optical, Performance to Figuration -- List of Authors