Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe

by M. Yegenoglu

Overview

This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration, from Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic understanding of the subject formation, to Zygmunt Bauman's notion of the stranger.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349298648
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MEYDA YEGENOGLU is a Professor of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Sovereign Europe and its Doubles Inhabiting Other Spaces: Destabilization and Reinstitution of Sovereignty Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in a Globalized World The Return of the Religious: Revisiting Europe and its Islamic Others Islam in Europe, Limits of Liberal Tolerance and the New Race Thinking Replication of the External Enemy and Hostile Hospitality in Europe Veiled Threats and the Sacralized Defense of Secularism in Turkey Caché: European Memory, Responsibility and the 'New' Europe-to-Come