Dangerous Others, Insecure Societies

Michalis Lianos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Rouen-Haute Normandie, France.

• List of Contributors; Hegemonic Insecurity, Defence and Otherness, Michalis Lianos; Chapter 1 Citizenship and Otherness: The Differential Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in France, Robert Castel; Chapter 2 City, Insecurity and Citizenship: The Emergence of Social Cohesion Policies, Jacques Donzelot; Chapter 3 Islam and Empowerment of the New Muslim Religious Brokers in Europe, Konrad Pedziwiatr; Chapter 4 Disguising the Sense of Insecurity in ‘Multicultural’ Greece, Marina Petronoti; Chapter 5 Normative Otherness: From ‘Sovereign Subjects’ to ‘Collateral Damage’, Michalis Lianos; Chapter 6 Malaise in Society?, Jan Spurk; Chapter 7 The Insecurity of Emancipation, Patrick Cingolani; Chapter 8 In Security and the Instituted Imaginary, John D. Cash; Chapter 9 Ethnicity as Politics, Race as Policy: Discourses and Spaces in Advanced Liberal States, Antonello Petrillo; Chapter 10 Fear: The Authoritarian Personality and Security Policies, Alexander Neumann;

’In times of economic austerity and political turmoil, insecurity and otherness can have dangerous outcomes, especially for those groups marginalized and damaged by neo-liberalism. This challenging and ambitious multidisciplinary text seeks to identify and underline the problems Europe is facing as well as addressing potential solutions. It is an essential and gripping read.’ Colin Clark, University of Strathclyde, UK ’Insecurity and fear of the other have risen to become major organizing principles of social life, transforming both our forms of communality and our political subjectivities. This excellent book brings together some exceptional thinkers that not only offer us acute analyses of this critical condition but provide us with new tools and concepts that allow us to think it further.’ Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne, Australia ’This book attempts to capture otherness and relative fear as a prominent figure of the problematic relations between Western societies and not fully included citizens or migrants. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of European cases, the text can help us to understand challenges and dynamics related to the winds of crisis that appear, not surprisingly, as inseparable companions of the last two decades.’ Lucio d'Alessandro, Suor Orsola Benicasa University, Italy 'Dangerous Others, Insecure Societies breathes new life into scholarly questions that sociologists in France and elsewhere have wrestled with for many decades. The examples of how othering translates into urban segregation and residentialization are especially intriguing. ... the pleasure of this text is found in the provocative chapters that will appeal to cultural, social, and political theorists across disciplines.' Sociological Research Online This is an intriguing volume, given that it is not a collection broadly connected by an overarching topic, but the contributions take up the same ideas, extending, discussing or contradicting them. Thus, the