Launch of Interventions Special Issue

Launch of Interventions Special Issue - Muslims in the Frame

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‘Muslims in the Frame’
edited by Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin

(Interventions Special Issue)
and

Still Not Easy Being British: Struggles for a Multicultural Citizenship
By Tariq Modood
(Trentham Books, 2010)

Khalili Lecture Theatre
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Square, Russell Square

Friday 24 September 2010 6.00 to 9.00pm

Speakers and Panelists include:

* Robert Young
* Amina Yaqin
* Peter Morey
* Tariq Modood
* Katherine Brown

Interventions, 12:2, July 2010

Muslims in the Frame

This special issue of Interventions focuses on the contemporary representation of Muslims, ranging across sociology, political science, film and television, photography and fashion, and exploring representation in both its cultural and political senses. Its essays delineate a limiting and limited ‘frame’ surrounding public discourses about Islam and Muslims, and present a snapshot of a contemporary landscape coloured by concerns about national identity, integration and security, in which Muslims constitute an object of study and, increasingly, answer back to misinformation and stereotypes.

Further details at:

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/spissue/riij-si.pdf

Still Not Easy Being British

The late 1980s and early 1990s in Britain saw the fracturing of a political ‘black’ identity; ethnic minority assertions to be British and about remaking what it is to be British; the manifestation of the social mobility of Indians and, above all, the emergence of Muslim identity politics in the Rushdie Affair. These issues were the subject of Tariq Modood's Not Easy Being British, one of the first books to note these developments and analyse their implications. In this new collection, Modood returns to some of these topics, considering especially the growth of Muslim political assertiveness and the reactions to it in the context of rethinking multiculturalism and Britishness.

Further details at:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/sociology/ethnicitycitizenship/documents/stillnoteasy.pdf

The event was free and open to all.