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The Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies, SOAS
And Framing Muslims
Present
Official Launch of the special issue of Interventions: International
Journal of Postcolonial Studies
'Muslims in the Frame'
edited by Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin
and
Still Not Easy Being British: Struggles for a Multicultural Citizenship
By Tariq Modood
(Trentham Books, 2010)
Khalili Lecture Theatre
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Square
Friday 24 September 2010
6.00 to 9.00pm
Speakers and Panelists include:
Robert Young
Amina Yaqin
Peter Morey
Tariq Modood
Katherine Brown
Interventions, 12:2, July 2010
Muslims in the Frame
This special issue of Interventions focuses on the contemporary
representation of Muslims, ranging across sociology, political science,
film and television, photography and fashion, and exploring representation
in both its cultural and political senses. Its essays delineate a limiting
and limited 'frame' surrounding public discourses about Islam and Muslims,
and present a snapshot of a contemporary landscape coloured by concerns
about national identity, integration and security, in which Muslims
constitute an object of study and, increasingly, answer back to
misinformation and stereotypes.
Further details at:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/spissue/riij-si.pdf
Still Not Easy Being British
The late 1980s and early 1990s in Britain saw the fracturing of a political
'black' identity; ethnic minority assertions to be British and about
remaking what it is to be British; the manifestation of the social mobility
of Indians and, above all, the emergence of Muslim identity politics in the
Rushdie Affair. These issues were the subject of Tariq Modood's Not Easy
Being British, one of the first books to note these developments and
analyse their implications. In this new collection, Modood returns to some
of these topics, considering especially the growth of Muslim political
assertiveness and the reactions to it in the context of rethinking
multiculturalism and Britishness.
Further details at:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/ethnicity/documents/stillnoteasy.pdf
For further information and to book a place please contact Jane Savory
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Jan Dobbernack, University of Bristol
Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ethnicity/
ACCEPT, European FP7 Project:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/ethnicity/projects/accept/index.html
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