After Charlie Hebdo

Gavan Titley is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies in Maynooth University, and a Docent in the Swedish School of Social Science, Helsinki University. He is the author of The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age (with Alana Lentin, 2011) and Racism and Media (forthcoming, 2018) and his most recent edited book is National Conversations? Public Service Media and Cultural Diversity (2013). He is a co-editor of the book series Challenging Migration Studies.Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of The Contradictions of Media Power (2014) and The Politics of Media Policy (2008). He is also an editor of the journal Global Media and Communication.Aurelien Mondon is a Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative politics at the University of Bath. His research focuses for the most part on the concepts of populism and racism and their impact on democracy. His first monograph A Populist Hegemony? The mainstreaming of the extreme right in France and Australia was published in 2013.Gholam Khiabany is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.

• Introduction: Becoming Symbolic: From Charlie Hebdo to ‘Charlie Hebdo’ - Gavan TitleyPart I: The Contested Republic1. Charlie Hebdo, Republican Secularism and Islamophobia - Aurélien Mondon & Aaron Winter2. The Meaning of 'Charlie': The Debate on the Troubled French Identity - Philippe Marlière3. After the Drama: The Institutionalization of Gossiping about Muslims - Valérie Amiraux & Arber Fetiu4. A Double-bind Situation? The Depoliticization of Violence and the Politics of Compensation - Abdellali HajjatPart II: The Long ‘War on Terror’5. The Whiteness of Innocence: Charlie Hebdo and the Metaphysics of Anti-terrorism in Europe - Nicholas De Genova6. The Visible Hand of the State - Gholam Khiabany7. Symbolic Politics with Brutally Real Effects: When ‘Nobodies’ Makes History - Markha Valenta8. Extremism, Theirs and Ours: Britain’s ‘Generational Struggle’- Arun KundnaniPart III: Media Events and Media Dynamics9. From Jyllands-Posten to Charlie Hebdo: Domesticating the Mohammed Cartoons - Carolina Sanchez Boe10. #JeSuisCharlie, #JeNeSuisPasCharlie and Ad Hoc Publics - Simon Dawes11. Mediated Narratives as Competing Histories of the Present - Annabelle SrebernyPart IV: The Politics of Free Speech12. Media Power and the Framing of the Charlie Hebdo attacks - Des Freedman13. 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? - Bill Grantham & Toby Miller14. Jouissance and Submission: ‘Free Speech’, Colonial Diagnostics and Psychoanalytic Responses to Charlie Hebdo - Anne MulhallPart V: Racism and Anti-racism in ‘Postracial’ Times15. Not Afraid - Ghassan Hage16. 'Je Suis Juif': Charlie Hebdo and the Remaking of Antisemitism - Alana Lentin17. Race, Caste and Gender in France - Christine Delphy18. The Ideology of the Holy Republic as Part of the Colonial Counter-Revolution - Selim Nadi

The attack on Charlie Hebdo has been a transformative event, one that presents particular challenges for freedom of speech. This insightful collection helps us to reflect on how we can develop an alternative narrative on violence, racism and freedom of expression.