• Introduction: migrants into minorities
• 1. Challenges to national citizenship
• 2. Postcolonial minorities and securitization
• 3. Race by any other name: Islam and the contestation of citizenship
• 4. The nation-state's wobbly hyphen: the backlash against multiculturalism
• 5. Bearers of tradition or oppressed minority: women as citizens Index
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This book compares the postcolonial populations of Britain and France, examining the ways in which they are redefining citizenship. Bearing in mind the different histories and political systems of each country, it considers questions of national identity, values, the place of religion, secularism and public spaces - all integral to determining what makes a country a true nation. Recent security threats have made the debate around minorities and assimilation all the more pressing, and this book delves deep into the issues of feminism, Islam and group identities. It will be of interest to students and scholars of race, religion and migration studies. -- .
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• Acknowledgements Preface
• 1. Introduction: The Bad News Gospel
• 2. Class
• 3. State
• 4. Ideology
• 5. Socialist Strategy Notes Index.
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Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life? In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one part of a wider elite plan to radically re-engineer society and everyday life in the interests of profit, consumerism and speculative finance. But Against Austerity is not a gospel of despair. Seymour argues that once we turn to face the headwinds of this new reality, dispensing with reassuring dogmas, we can forge new collective resistance and alternatives to the current system. Following Brecht, Against Austerity argues that the good old things are over, it's time to confront the bad new ones.
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• Introduction
• 1. From the boozer to the improved public house
• 2. Women, war and drinking
• 3. Selling women
• 4. Bikinis, boots and booze
• 5. The more things change, the more (some) things remain the same
• 6. Drinking habits of their own
• 7. Wooing women
• 8. New money, new ideas, new women
• 9. A youth subculture of drinking
• 10. Yesterday's reforms, today's bingeing
• 11. Folk devils and moral panics: Youth and women across a century of censure Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Given recent media coverage of women's drinking habits, it is surprising that a topic of such interest has not produced a comprehensive examination. This book provides not just a survey spanning a century of momentous change, but integrates diverse sources with concepts to offer a new understanding of the changing nature of women's drinking patterns. It challenges traditional assumptions and offers original interpretations about the diverse factors influencing women's consumption of alcohol, including advertising, moral panics, sexism, legislative initiatives, employment, age, ethnicity, technology, new drinking venues and marketing strategies. What most influenced how women transformed their consumption of alcohol? What beverages did they drink? To what extent did women themselves act as agents of change? These and other questions serve as the basis for analysing women's drinking patterns from a social and cultural perspective. Close attention is also paid to the image of drinking projected in advertising, the mass media and films. -- .
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• Acknowledgements Foreword by John Berger Introduction
• 1. From Palestine to Guantanamo
• 2. From Medina to Guantanamo
• 3. From Palestine and Africa to house arrest in London
• 4. From Jordan to Belmarsh prison
• 5. From Egypt to Long Lartin prison
• 6. The South London families
• 7. Daughters and Sisters
• 8. Families surviving the war on terror Afterword by Marina Warner Endnotes Bibliography Index.
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Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the '9/11 wars': their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria Brittain shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a convenient scapegoat for the state in order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the 'War on Terror'. A disturbing expose of the perilous state of freedom and democracy in our society, the book reveals how a culture of intolerance and cruelty has left individuals at the mercy of the security services' unverifiable accusations and punitive punishments. Both a j'accuse and a testament to the strength and humanity of the families, Shadow Lives shows the methods of incarceration and social control being used by the British state and gives a voice to the families whose lives have been turned upside down. In doing so it raises urgent questions about civil liberties which no one can afford to ignore.
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• 1. Introduction: Going Inside
• 2. Visual Practice and the Secure Regime
• 3. Being There: Social Life in the Centre
• 4. Compliance and Defiance: Contesting the Regime
• 5. Drawing the Line: Discretion and Power
• 6. Ethics and Encounters
• 7. Conclusion References Index.
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Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done with unwanted or 'illegal' immigrants? In this bold intervention, Alexandra Hall shows that immigration detention centres offer a window onto society's broader attitudes towards immigrants. Despite periodic media scandals, remarkably little has been written about the everyday workings of this system, or about the people responsible for setting immigration policy. Detention, particularly, is a hidden side of border politics, despite its growing international importance as a tool of control and security. This book also looks at the social life and the relationships between officers and immigrants to explore broad social trends, as well as resistance within the system, and provides rare insights into the treatment of the 'other'.
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• Part 1: Rioting in Context
• Part 2: Who, How and Why?
• Part 3: The Aftermath
• Part 4: The Wider Picture: Social Change and Global Discontent.
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From Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry and gossip to hard facts, research and empirical investigation, this outstanding collection looks at the nature and causes of the English Riots of 2011 one year after they occurred. Though worrying in their nature, speed and scale, the book points out that rioting is nothing new - even if technological advances have altered their 'organization', the way in which the police respond and the incessant nature of media coverage. From 'moral panics' to 'broken Britain' and anxieties about youth crime, the book looks at various flashpoints of the riots such as the killing of Mark Duggan by police marksmen, the widespread looting, the political and criminal justice responses and a growing discontent about the current neoliberal order. The book rejects Coalition Prime Minister David Cameron's much-publicized assertion that these events were 'criminality, pure and simple', just as it counters attempts to lay blame on sections of the community or 'outsiders'. Looking at phenomena such as 'shopping for free' and the idea that the lawlessness represented some kind of instant carnival, it concentrates on how order was restored and individuals fast-tracked via police cells and courts into harsh sentences as well as issues of marginality, hopelessness, political and economic corruption and media distortions. Wide-ranging and expert in its analysis, it also considers the modern-day global context for riots as well as comparing Brixton 1981 and other iconic events of the past. Further highlights include: the role of new social media in terms of recruitment, resistance, and surveillance; the role of the urban street gang; gender, racialization, resentment, post-riot rhetoric and the profiling the 2011 rioters. It looks at how the riots spread to other cities in the UK including Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham - as well as examining events and attitudes in places such as Spain, Greece, and those of the Arab Spring. Asks Who, When and Why?; Includes first-hand accounts from 2011 rioters, victims and the public; Applies historical, cultural, structural and social perspectives to the English Riots of 2011; Considers the aftermath of the riots and the wider picture of global social unrest.
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• Introduction--
• 1. Jewish Community, Jewish Leadership--
• 2. Insecurity and the Problem of Jewish Continuity--
• 3. Conceptualizing Jewish Continuity--
• 4. Practising Jewish Continuity--
• 5. Re-imagining Anti-Semitism--
• 6. Combating the New Anti-Semitism-- Conclusion: Towards a Dialogic Jewish Community-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This book contains a compelling discussion of transformations within British Jewry in recent times. The first study of contemporary British Jewry since the 1970s, "Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today" examines the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990. Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley contend that there has been a shift within Jewish communal discourse from a strategy of security, which emphasized Anglo-Jewry's secure British belonging and citizenship, to a strategy of insecurity, which emphasizes the dangers and threats Jews face individually and communally.
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Since 2002 Geoffrey Alderman, the leading authority on the Jews of modern Britain, has written the chief "Comment" column for the "Jewish Chronicle", the world's oldest continuously circulating Jewish newspaper. This anthology brings together over a hundred of these contributions, on subjects as diverse as Jewish Orthodoxy, Ultra-Orthodoxy, Non-Orthodoxy, Islamic Judeophobia, and Jewish approaches to politics and sex.
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• 1. Introduction: Muslims in Britain, Peter Hopkins (University of Lancaster) and Richard Gale (University of Birmingham)--
• Section 1: Gender, Place and Culture--
• 2. Creating Home-Spaces: Young British Muslim Women's Identity and Conceptualisation of Home, Deborah Phillips (University of Leeds)--
• 3. 'You Seem Very Westernised to Me': Place, Identity and Othering of Muslim Workers in the UK Labour Market, Sophie Bowlby and Sally Lloyd-Evans (University of Reading)--
• 4. Rethinking the Identities of Young British Pakistani Muslim Women: Educational Experiences and Aspirations, Claire Dwyer and Bindi Shah (University College London)--
• 5. Race, 'Face' and Masculinity: The Identities and Local Geographies of Muslim Boys, Louise Archer (Kings College London)--
• Section 2: Landscapes, Communities and Networks--
• 6. British Arab Perspectives on Religion, Politics and 'the Public', Caroline Nagel (University of South Carolina) and Lynn Staeheli (University of Edinburgh)--
• 7. The Multicultural City and the Politics of Religious Architecture: Urban Planning, Mosques and Meaning-Making in Birmingham, Richard Gale (University of Birmingham)--
• 8. Holy Places, Contested Spaces: British-Pakistani Accounts of Pilgrimage to Makkah and Medinah, Sean McLoughlin (University of Leeds)--
• 9. Excess Baggage or Precious Gems? The Migration of Cultural Commodoties, Anjoom Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani (Ismaili Studies Institute, London)--
• Section 3: Religion, Race and Difference--
• 10. Situating Muslim Geographies: Theory and Praxis, Lily Kong (National University of Singapore)--
• 11. Muslims and the Politics of Difference, Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)--
• 12. Islamophobia in the Construction of British Muslim Identity Politics, Jonathan Birt (Islamic Foundation, UK)-- Afterword, Peter Hopkins and Richard Gale.
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Following the events of 11th September 2001 in the USA, and more especially, the bombings on the London underground on 7th July 2005 and the incident at Glasgow Airport on 30th June 2007, an increasing amount of public attention has been focused upon Muslims in Britain. Against the backdrop of this debate, this book sets out a series of innovative insights into the everyday lives of Muslims living in contemporary Britain, in an attempt to move beyond prevalent stereotypes concerning what it means to be 'Muslim'. Combining original empirical research with theoretical interventions, this collection offers a range of reflections on how Muslims in Britain negotiate their everyday lives, manage experiences of racism and exclusion, and develop local networks and global connections. The authors explore a broad range of themes including gender relations; educational and economic issues; migration and mobility; religion and politics; racism and Islamophobia; and the construction and contestation of Muslim identities. Threaded through the treatment of these themes is a unifying concern with the ways in which geography matters to how Muslims negotiate their daily experiences as well as their racialised, gendered and religious identities. Above all, attention is focused upon the role of the home and local community, the influence of the economy and the nation, and the power of transnational connections and mobilities in the everyday lives of Muslims in Britain. Includes contributions from: Louise Archer, Yahya Birt, Sophie Bowlby, Claire Dwyer, Richard Gale, Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong, Sally Lloyd-Evans, Sean McLoughlin, Sharmina Mawani, Tariq Modood, Anjoom Mukadam, Caroline Nagel, Deborah Phillips, Bindi Shah, and Lynn Staeheli.
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• 1. Introduction: Muslims in Britain, Peter Hopkins (University of Lancaster) and Richard Gale (University of Birmingham)--
• Section 1: Gender, Place and Culture--
• 2. Creating Home-Spaces: Young British Muslim Women's Identity and Conceptualisation of Home, Deborah Phillips (University of Leeds)--
• 3. 'You Seem Very Westernised to Me': Place, Identity and Othering of Muslim Workers in the UK Labour Market, Sophie Bowlby and Sally Lloyd-Evans (University of Reading)--
• 4. Rethinking the Identities of Young British Pakistani Muslim Women: Educational Experiences and Aspirations, Claire Dwyer and Bindi Shah (University College London)--
• 5. Race, 'Face' and Masculinity: The Identities and Local Geographies of Muslim Boys, Louise Archer (Kings College London)--
• Section 2: Landscapes, Communities and Networks--
• 6. British Arab Perspectives on Religion, Politics and 'the Public', Caroline Nagel (University of South Carolina) and Lynn Staeheli (University of Edinburgh)--
• 7. The Multicultural City and the Politics of Religious Architecture: Urban Planning, Mosques and Meaning-Making in Birmingham, Richard Gale (University of Birmingham)--
• 8. Holy Places, Contested Spaces: British-Pakistani Accounts of Pilgrimage to Makkah and Medinah, Sean McLoughlin (University of Leeds)--
• 9. Excess Baggage or Precious Gems? The Migration of Cultural Commodoties, Anjoom Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani (Ismaili Studies Institute, London)--
• Section 3: Religion, Race and Difference--
• 10. Situating Muslim Geographies: Theory and Praxis, Lily Kong (National University of Singapore)--
• 11. Muslims and the Politics of Difference, Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)--
• 12. Islamophobia in the Construction of British Muslim Identity Politics, Jonathan Birt (Islamic Foundation, UK)-- Afterword, Peter Hopkins and Richard Gale.
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Following the events of 11th September 2001 in the USA, and more especially, the bombings on the London underground on 7th July 2005 and the incident at Glasgow Airport on 30th June 2007, an increasing amount of public attention has been focused upon Muslims in Britain. Against the backdrop of this debate, this book sets out a series of innovative insights into the everyday lives of Muslims living in contemporary Britain, in an attempt to move beyond prevalent stereotypes concerning what it means to be 'Muslim'. Combining original empirical research with theoretical interventions, this collection offers a range of reflections on how Muslims in Britain negotiate their everyday lives, manage experiences of racism and exclusion, and develop local networks and global connections. The authors explore a broad range of themes including gender relations; educational and economic issues; migration and mobility; religion and politics; racism and Islamophobia; and the construction and contestation of Muslim identities. Threaded through the treatment of these themes is a unifying concern with the ways in which geography matters to how Muslims negotiate their daily experiences as well as their racialised, gendered and religious identities. Above all, attention is focused upon the role of the home and local community, the influence of the economy and the nation, and the power of transnational connections and mobilities in the everyday lives of Muslims in Britain. Includes contributions from: Louise Archer, Yahya Birt, Sophie Bowlby, Claire Dwyer, Richard Gale, Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong, Sally Lloyd-Evans, Sean McLoughlin, Sharmina Mawani, Tariq Modood, Anjoom Mukadam, Caroline Nagel, Deborah Phillips, Bindi Shah, and Lynn Staeheli.
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES; INDEX.

Multiculturalism still matters and is even more important after 7/7 than it was before. The political discourse and rhetoric of integration sits uncomfortably alongside both multicultural realities e.g. the civil disturbances in Birmingham, England (October 2005), Paris, France (November 2005) and Sydney, Australia (December, 2005) and social scientific notions of where multiculturalism positions itself domestically and internationally. This edited collection is intended to be a major contribution to studies of multiculturalism examining the historical background and anthropological context, alongside more contemporary applied social policy perspectives. In this volume, we argue that a multicultural perspective is as relevant and important, both socially and politically in a post 7/7 world. Within a post 7/7 context, there are contributors within this edited collection who argue for both integrationist and multicultural approaches. The volume acknowledges both concepts and encourages the reader to increase understandings of both arguments and position her / himself within the debates.
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• Introduction-- 1 Echoes of empire-- 2 From dependency to displacement-- 3 Seeds of segregation-- 4 We are here because you are there-- 5 Asylum and the welfare state-- 6 The dialectics of terror-- 7 The Halabja generation-- 8 Integrationism: the politics of anti-Muslim racism-- 9 Migration and the market-state-- 10 Here to stay-- 11 The new Leviathan-- 12 Community: theirs and ours-- Notes-- Index.
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Is Britain becoming a more racist society? Arun Kundnani looks behind the media hysteria to show how thirty years of cohesive race relations are being overturned by irresponsible government policies and vitriolic press campaigns that play upon fear and encourage racism. Exacerbated by the attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, Kundnani argues that the multicultural consensus of the 1980's has given way to outright racism. There has been a sharp increase in attacks on Muslims and people of Arab or Asian descent and communities are more divided than ever. Yet the government presses ahead with foreign policy that is widely construed as racist, and relations between the police and communities have reached a new low. What can be done? This timely and precise analysis is a useful account of why racism is now thriving - and what can be done to stop it. It will be of interest to anyone who is appalled by the current state of race relations in Britain and it should be required reading for all policy-makers.
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• Acknowledgements Foreword by John Pilger
• 1 The Mass Media - Neutral, Honest, Psychopathic
• 2 Iraq - The Sanctions of Mass Destruction
• 3 Iraq Disarmed - Burying the 1991-98 Weapons Inspections
• 4 Iraq - Gunning For War And Burying The Dead
• 5 Afghanistan - Let Them Eat Grass
• 6 Kosovo - Real Bombs, Fictional Genocide
• 7 East Timor - The Practical Limits Of Crusading Humanitarianism
• 8 Haiti - The Hidden Logic Of Exploitation
• 9 Idolatry Ink - Reagan, The `Cheerful Conservative' And `Chubby Bubba' Clinton
• 10 Climate Change - The Ultimate Media Betrayal
• 11 Disciplined Media - Professional Conformity To Power
• 12 Towards A Compassionate Media
• 13 Full Human Dissent Resources Index.
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Guardians of Power is a thought-provoking and controversial challenge to the idea that western media is unbiased, fearless and open to different ideas. This book argues that a corporate media system be never be expected to tell the truth about a world dominated by corporations. It challenges the complacent view that newspapers, including the 'liberal' Guardian and the Independent, tell the truth about climate change, war and problems in society when they are profit-oriented businesses dependent on advertisers for 75% of their revenues. Guardians of Power is a radical intervention which will spark debate amongst media students and journalists, and all those who believe in the values of a free and independent media.
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