The School of Arts and Humanities

Modern Languages and the Centre for Inequality, Culture and Difference

Present 

a seminar with

Dr Jim Wolfreys, from Kings College, London

Republic of Islamophobia: The Rise of Respectable Racism in France

Islamophobia in France is on the rise, with Muslims subjected to unprecedented scrutiny of what they wear, eat and say. This book examines the role played by France’s ‘new secularism’ in giving racism a respectable veneer and assesses the impact of the political mainstream’s adoption of an authoritarian neoliberal outlook on France's Muslim population. This officially sanctioned Islamophobia risks going unchallenged. It has divided the anti-racist movement and undermined the left’s opposition to bigotry. Drawing on interviews with anti-racist activists, Republic of Islamophobia situates these developments within a wider historical and international context.

Dr Wolfreys is a graduate of Liverpool University and obtained a PhD from the History department there in 1995. He lectures in French politics in the Department of French at Kings College London. A member of the editorial board of International Socialism, his research on contemporary French politics has focused on fascism, the historiography of revolution, social movements, political corruption and the work of Pierre Bourdieu.

All welcome.

Further details:

Professor Enda McCaffrey

0115 84 83377

enda.mccaffrey@ntu.ac.uk

or 

Professor Martin O'Shaughnessy,

martin.oshaughnessy@ntu.ac.uk