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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. The contested republic

1. Charlie Hebdo, Republican secularism and Islamophobia

2. The meaning of ‘Charlie’: the debate on the troubled French identity

3. After the drama: the institutionalisation of gossiping about Muslims

4. A double-bind situation? The depoliticisation of violence and the politics of compensation

Part II. The long ‘war on terror’

5. The whiteness of innocence: Charlie Hebdo and the metaphysics of anti-terrorism in Europe

6. The visible hand of the state

7. Symbolic politics with brutally real effects: when ‘nobodies’ make history

8. Extremism, theirs and ours: Britain’s ‘generational struggle’

Part III. Media events and media dynamics

9. From Jyllands-Posten to Charlie Hebdo: domesticating the Mohammed cartoons

10. #JeSuisCharlie, #JeNeSuisPasCharlie and ad hoc publics

11. Mediated narratives as competing histories of the present

Part IV. The politics of free speech

12. Media power and the framing of the Charlie Hebdo attacks

13. We hate to quote Stanley Fish, but: “There’s no such thing as free speech, and it’s a good thing, too.” Or is it?

14. Jouissance and submission: ‘free speech’, colonial diagnostics and psychoanalytic responses to Charlie Hebdo

Part V. Racism and anti-racism in post-racial times

15. Not afraid

16. ‘Je Suis Juif’: Charlie Hebdo and the remaking of antisemitism

17. Race, caste and gender in France

18. The ideology of the Holy Republic as part of the colonial counter-revolution

About the contributors

Index