Re-Imagining the Other: Culture, Media, and Western-Muslim Intersections

Islamophobia and Sexism: Muslim Women in the Western Mass Media

This paper reflects on the role of mass media in the social reproduction of one form of racism: Islamophobia. Firstly, the article focus on the dominant representations of “Muslim women” in the western media in general and in Spanish media in particular, in order to highlight the specific characteristics of the image of the female Muslim “other” and, likewise, in order to analyse— from a gender...

Re-engaging the intersections of media, politics and cities

Re-imagining the Urban

Context The topic of this conference – ‘the right to the city’ – implies that the city is an important social stake. By association it also suggests that the struggle is between classes. As such it raises all manner of questions about the relation between society and space, class and territory that merit attention, even concern. In understanding events in cities, can one confine oneself to an u...

Re-Imagining Justice

Liberal theory and Islam: (re)imagining the interaction of religion, law, state and society in Muslim contexts

Within the global phenomenon of the (re)emergence of religion into issues of public debate, one of the most salient issues confronting contemporary Muslim societies is how to relate the legal and political heritage that developed in pre-modern Islamic polities to the political order of the modern states in which Muslims now live. This study seeks to develop a framework for addressing this issue...