As the world looked on in horror at the Paris terror attacks in 2015, France found itself at the center of a conflict, which has had consequences that extend far beyond France itself. The attacks set in motion a steady creep towards ever more repressive state surveillance and security measures, and they fuelled the resurgence of the far right across Europe, while leaving the left dangerously divided. Consequently, these developments raise profound questions about the meanings and limits of such concepts as secularism, multiculturalism, and freedom of speech today.
After Charlie Hebdo brings together an international range of contributors to assess the symbolic and political impact of the Paris attacks in Europe and beyond. Cutting through the hysteria that has characterised so much of the initial commentary on the attacks, the essays place these events in a wider international context, exploring such key issues as the shifting meanings of secularism in postcolonial France, the role of the media, the politics of free expression, and how best to combat racism and Islamophobia.
Gavan Titley is a senior lecturer in Media Studies in Maynooth University, and a Docent in the Swedish School of Social Science, Helsinki University. He is the author of The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age (with Alana Lentin, 2011) and Racism and Media (forthcoming, 2018) and his most recent edited book is National Conversations? Public Service Media and Cultural Diversity (2013). He is a co-editor of the book series Challenging Migration Studies.
Des Freedman is professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of
The Contradictions of Media Power (2014) and
The Politics of Media Policy (2008). He is also an editor of the journal
Global Media and Communication.
Aurelien Mondon is a senior lecturer in French and Comparative politics at the University of Bath. His research focuses for the most part on the concepts of populism and racism and their impact on democracy. His first monograph
A Populist Hegemony? The mainstreaming of the extreme right in France and Australia was published in 2013.
Gholam Khiabany is a senior lecturer in the Dept of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Gavan Titley is a senior lecturer in Media Studies in Maynooth University, and a Docent in the Swedish School of Social Science, Helsinki University. He is the author of
The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age (with Alana Lentin, 2011) and
Racism and Media (forthcoming, 2018) and his most recent edited book is
National Conversations? Public Service Media and Cultural Diversity (2013). He is a co-editor of the book series Challenging Migration Studies.
Des Freedman is professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of
The Contradictions of Media Power (2014) and
The Politics of Media Policy (2008). He is also an editor of the journal
Global Media and Communication.
Aurelien Mondon is a senior lecturer in French and Comparative politics at the University of Bath. His research focuses for the most part on the concepts of populism and racism and their impact on democracy. His first monograph
A Populist Hegemony? The mainstreaming of the extreme right in France and Australia was published in 2013.
Gholam Khiabany is a senior lecturer in the Dept of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.
