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[ecrea] CFP: Media Representations of Islam and Muslims
Fri Feb 09 09:12:40 GMT 2018
*Media Representations of Islam and Muslims*
*/An international and interdisciplinary conference/*
*/Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France (19-20 juin
2018)/*
‘Islamophobia’ and ‘race’ are contested terms in contemporary political
and media discourse around the world(Hajjat & Mohammed, 2013; Massoumi
et al., 2017; Sayyid & Vakil, 2009). In the case of heated debates in
France, for example, academic and/or antiracist arguments – themselves
far from homogenous – struggle to be heard, and these terms are often
censored more or less explicitly. The absence of official statistics on
ethnic and religious diversity in France (Simon, 2008), which
purportedly protects minorities from discrimination, also inadvertently
makes invisible the social and cultural inequalities that nevertheless
exist; and the constitutional establishment of France as a secular state
that presupposes equality and freedom leads to problems for the
recognition of difference in an increasingly multicultural society
(Modood & Webner, 1997; Lentin & Titley, 2011), as well as tensions
between the protected values of freedom of expression and freedom of
religion (Alicino, 2015).
Similarly, in Francophone and Anglophone academic literature alike,
there remains no clear consensus on the definition of either
Islamophobia or racism, which, more often than not, continue to be
studied separately. In contrast to the political and media rhetoric,
however, academic research into these issues from a wide range of
disciplines has revealed that systemic and structural discrimination is
in fact as widespread in France as they are in other western countries,
with non-white people suffering disproportionately in terms of
unemployment (Wacquant, 2009), imprisonment (D. Fassin, 2011) and
education (Keaton, 2006), while international NGOs (Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch) have repeatedly criticised the
failure of successive French governments to independently investigate
police violence and discrimination against ethnic minorities. Contrary
to the clash of civilisations thesis and the emphasis on the need for
Muslims to integrate and accommodate their religion or culture with
‘republican’ or ‘western’ values, studies on the everyday lives and
personal opinions of Muslims in France and other European countries have
cast doubt on the extent to which any such contradiction exists (Göle,
2015; Massoumi, 2015; Zerouala, 2015), while others have warned against
the increasing sacralisation of laïcité as a civic religion (Roy, 2013)
and the false dichotomy of anti-sexism and anti-racism when debating
issues such as ‘the veil’ (Bouyahia et Sana, 2013; Delphy, 2008).
Increasingly, effort has been made to supplement research into the
characteristics of Muslim people and religious, cultural or political
identity, with more of an emphasis on Islamophobia as the result of
political practices that disproportionately affect Muslim people
(Massoumi et al., 2017), and to supplement quantitative research into
diversity with qualitative research into the perception of
discrimination (Dubet et al, 2013). Transcending the dominant focus on
immigration and integration, and recognising the ‘internal exclusion’ of
non-migrants (Balibar, 2007), as well as the role of religion as a site
of cultural politics rather than an apolitical aspect of the private
sphere (Fernando, 2014), some scholars have sought to shift attention
away from the ‘Muslim problem’ and onto the ‘republican problem’
instead. That is, engaging with the inherent tensions and contradictions
of the secular state, republican values and ‘secular-republican power’
(Fernando, 2014; see also Titley et al, 2017), rather than those of
French Muslims and what they eat or wear. Others have located the
concept of Islamophobia and the social construction of the ‘Muslim
problem’ in the long-term history of international migration and
colonial racism (Bancel et al., 2015; Hajjat & Mohammed, 2013;Poinsot et
Weber, 2014). Recognising the complexity of the social construction of
‘race’ and citing discursive slippages between the figure of the
‘Muslim’, the ‘Arab’ and other terms, as well as the ways in which
Muslims are perceived in racialised terms, some scholars (D. Fassin & E.
Fassin, 2006; Mazouz, 2017) have discussed the phenomenon of ‘racism
without race’, using the term /racialization/to emphasise the process
whereby certain identities are socially constructed as ‘other’ and
categorised hierarchically (du Bois, 1994; Fanon, 1967; D. Fassin, 2011;
Gilroy, 1987; Miles, 1989; Murji & Solomos, 2005), and drawing on
cultural and media studies approaches to reveal the ways in which ‘race’
intersects with gender and class (Anthias, 2012).
Such approaches have also been important sources for critiquing the role
of the media in this process of racialization (Cervulle, 2013; Hall et
al., 1978; Petley & R. Richardson, 2011; Poole & J. Richardson, 2006;
Rabah, 1998; Said, 1997; Tevanian, 2005; 2006). But, as Hajjat &
Mohammed (2013: 116) have argued, analyses of media representations,
discourses and content (Bertault et al, 2009; Deltombe, 2005; Macé,
2009; Sian et al, 2013) need to be complemented by more sociological
accounts of the conditions of media production and the routine practices
of journalists, so as to understand the distance between the habitus of
professional journalists and elites, on the one hand, and the ‘popular
classes’ on the other, as well as the discrimination experienced by
those from ethnic minority backgrounds working within the media
industries themselves, and the economic and structural constraints of
news agenda setting.
This conference aims to bring together researchers from a variety of
disciplines (sociology, information-communication, history, law, media
and cultural studies, etc.), from France and from abroad, as well as
professionals from the media industry, to further debate and develop our
understanding of the media’s role in the construction of the ‘Muslim
problem’ – in France and beyond. Because this is an international and
interdisciplinary conference, we are keen to receive papers that
foreground the contribution that international and interdisciplinary
perspectives can bring, and that highlight the different sources,
theoretical traditions, methodological approaches and epistemological
questions that are raised by researchers working in different fields, so
as to provide a reflexive and critical engagement with the efficacy and
appropriateness of terms such as Islamophobia, and of hitherto
privileged approaches to understanding such processes and practices. As
such, papers that are comparative – that focus on such issues in other
countries, or on similitudes with other racisms and processes of
mediated exclusion – are welcome, as are those that offer historical
perspectives on their evolution, and those that combine media analyses
with sociological research, or an engagement with interdisciplinary or
international literatures, are particularly encouraged. Generally,
contributions are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following areas:
*
Definitions of, and debates on, terms such as Islamophobia,
racism/racialization, mediation/mediatization and media critique.
*
Theoretical, methodological and inter/disciplinary approaches and
traditions to critiquing media and racism (cultural studies; media
studies; postcolonial studies; critical race theory; gender studies;
intersectionality; sociology; history; law; international relations
etc.)
*
Analyses of media content or discourse; media law, policy and
regulation; or media practice and journalism ethics.
*
Moral panics, media events and controversies over the veil,
burkinis, halal meat, school meals, Christmas crèches in public
buildings, /Charlie Hebdo/.
*
Ethnic diversity, inequality and discrimination in areas such as
housing, employment, education, the criminal justice system.
*
Liberalism, republicanism, communitarianism, multiculturalism or
cosmopolitanism.
*
Secularism/s, laïcité, recognition and difference.
*
Colonialism, postcolonialism, nationalism, globalisation, terrorism
or collective memory.
*
‘Race’, religion, religiosity, postsecularism, intersectionality and
culture.
*
Citizenship, rights, inclusion and exclusion.
*
The balancing of freedom of expression with the freedom of religion;
academic freedom; press freedom.
*
Feminism, gender, class, intersectionality, and anti-sexism and/or
anti-racism.
*Proposals for papers of up to 500 words (accompanied by an indicative
bibliography and a short biographical note) should be sent to Simon
Dawes at **(simon.dawes /at/ uvsq.fr)* <mailto:(simon.dawes /at/ uvsq.fr)>*by Friday
16^th February 2018**. The conference will be bilingual, and the
proposals can be sent in either English or French. *
*Decisions will be confirmed by Friday 16^th March 2018. *
*The conference will take place in 19-20 June 2018.*
*Keynote Speakers:*
*Floya Anthias, Marion Dalibert, Eric Fassin, Abdellali Hajjat, Olivier
Le Cour Grandmaison, Eric Macé, Narzanin Massoumi and Sarah Mazouz*
*Organising Committee:*
Simon Dawes (CHCSC, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,
Paris Saclay, France)
Marion Dalibert (GERiiCO, Université Lille 3, France)
Eric Fassin(LEGS, CNRS / Université Paris-8 / Université Paris-Ouest,
France)
Des Freedman (Goldsmiths, University of London, Royaume Uni)
Claire Gallien (IRCL, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, and CNRS,
France / Columbia University, États-Unis)
Lise Guilhamon (CHCSC, Université de Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris Saclay, France)
Abdellali Hajjat(ISP, CNRS / Université Paris-Ouest, Nanterre, Paris
Saclay, France)
Claire Joubert (TransCrit (EA 1569), Université Paris 8, France)
Gholam Khiabany (Goldsmiths, University of London, Royaume Uni)
Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison(CRLD,Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne, Paris
Saclay, France)
Nadia Marzouki (CNRS, France)
Sarah Mazouz (Institut für europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt Universität
zu Berlin, Allemagne)
Tom Mills (Aston University)
Marwan Mohammed (ERIS du CMH, CNRS, France)
Aurélien Mondon (University of Bath, Royaume Uni)
Géraldine Poels (CHCSC, Paris Saclay et Institut National Audiovisuel,
France)
François Robinet (CHCSC, Université de Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris Saclay, France)
Gavan Titley (Maynooth University, Irlande / Helsinki University, Finlande)
*Sponsors:*
Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC),
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Paris Saclay
Centre for Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of London,
Royaume Uni
Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP, UMR 7220), Université
Paris-Ouest Nanterre, Paris Saclay
« Mondialités Islamiques: Interfaces Francophones/Anglophones et
Décolonialités » research programme: l’Institut de Recherche sur la
Renaissance, l’âge Classique et les Lumières (IRCL, UMR 5186),
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III et l’Université Paris 8
"Poétique de l'étranger", TransCrit (EA 1569), Université Paris 8
RTP « Islams et Chercheurs dans la Cité », EHESS
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