The Event of ‹em›Charlie Hebdo‹/em› : : Imaginaries of Freedom and Control

The Event of ‹em›Charlie Hebdo‹/em› : : Imaginaries of Freedom and Control / ed. by Alessandro Zagato.

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...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge,
Hjortsberg, Jacob,
Kapferer, Bruce,
Korsbrekke, Mari Hanssen,
Rakopoulos, Theodoros,
Rio, Knut,
Rudi, Axel,
Styve, Maria Dyveke,
Zagato, Alessandro,
HerausgeberIn:
Zagato, Alessandro,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; 15
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Physical Description:1 Online-Resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Event of Charlie Hebdo-Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
  • The Barbariat and Democratic Tolerance
  • Charlie Hebdo: The West and the Sacred
  • The Thoughtcrimes of an Eight-Year-Old
  • Imaginaries of Violence and Surrogates for Politics
  • Where Were You, Charlie? Contesting Voices of Political Activism in the Wake of a Tragedy
  • Moral, All-Too Moral: Satire, Morality, and Charlie Hebdo
  • On Blasphemy: The Paradoxes of Protecting and Mocking God
  • Afterword: When Is a Joke Not a Joke? The Paradox of Egalitarianism

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