Title: Islam and the politics of culture in Europe :
Authors: Peter, Frank,; Dornhof, Sarah,; Arigita Maza, Elena,; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek,
Date: 2013
Publisher: Transcript,
Physical description: 267 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Contents: 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 : Museum of Islamic Art -- Visual government and Islamophobia -- Veiled bodies, vile speech : Islam, the carnivalesque and the politics of profanation -- On tattoos and other bodily inscriptions : some reflections on trauma and racism -- Seeing difference, seeing differently -- Fun and faith, music and Muslimness : dynamics of identity of Dutch-Moroccan youth -- Performing vision : re-presentation in Islam -- Confronting images : Jahangir versus King James I -- From haptic to optical, performance to figuration : a history of representation at the bottom of a bowl.
Notes: "The idea for this book matured in the course of a conference series organized in 2010 and 2011 within the research network 'Configurations of Muslim traditions in European secular public spheres' (2008-2011) funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)"--Acknowledgements.
Subject headings (LCSH): Arts, European--21st century.; Culture and globalization--Europe.; Europe--Cultural policy--Congresses.; Europe--Ethnic relations.; Islam and culture--Europe--Congresses.; Islam and politics--Europe.; Islam--Europe--Congresses.; Islam--Europe.; Multiculturalism--Europe--Congresses; Muslims--Europe.; Politics and culture--Europe--Congresses.