{"product_id":"who-is-charlie-xenophobia-and-the-new-middle-class-hardback-9781509505777","title":"Who is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class (Hardback) 9781509505777","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWho is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmmanuel Todd (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509505777, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 September 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e220 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 15 x 2.3 cm, 0.39 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Todd’s highly contrarian analysis of the Charlie movement and his strident tone have drawn widespread criticism. But the very boldness of his claims, backed up by hard data, commands attention. No student of the marches can ignore this deeply unconventional book.\" \u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/public\/article1595311.ece\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The value of Todd’s book lies in the persuasive counter-narrative that debunks the Manichean interpretation of events that has thus far prevailed in media and political circles.\"\u003cbr\u003ehttps:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/books\/review-who-is-charlie-xenophobia-new-middle-class-emmanuel-todd\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book offers a deeply reflective analysis of the Charlie Hebdo affair in Paris, and uses it brilliantly to explore and criticise the inner tensions and selective historical amnesia of French society that are taken to be responsible for its current Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. It shows with great insight and wisdom how to deal with these disturbing trends.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBhikhu Parekh, House of Lords\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWho Is Charlie?\u003c\/i\u003e stands out from all that has been written on the two massacres that took place in Paris in January 2015. It is an impressive analysis and a gripping read - I couldn't put it down once I started reading it. Emmanuel Todd's concern is not merely to trace the cause of these crimes but to reflect on them as a way of understanding the structural contradictions of contemporary France - a nation that continually invokes its Jacobin legacy (liberty, equality, fraternity) and yet allows that legacy to be undermined. This book is a brilliantly argued polemic and essential reading for understanding Islamophobia as a symptom of neo-Republican France in crisis.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTalal Asad, CUNY Graduate Center\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWho is Charlie?\u003c\/i\u003e is an important little book, timely and pertinent, and not just for what it says about France. In all Western societies it is the middle classes who enjoy what globalization has created and it is the middle classes who would keep the dispossessed excluded by means of wage inequality and control of education. At the same time, no longer buttressed by the metaphysics of religion, an anxiety haunts the vacuum of the hollow culture that has replaced Catholicism and Protestantism. Charlie seeks a scapegoat, needs one, and the kind of hysteria that gripped France after the events of 7th January is capable of manifesting itself in countries outside of France.\"\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/www.irishleftreview.org\/2015\/10\/28\/zombie-catholicism\/\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish Left Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Perceptive and chilling\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of ‘Je suis Charlie’?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd investigates the cartography and sociology of the three to four million who marched in Paris and across France and draws some unsettling conclusions. For while they claimed to support liberal, republican values, the real middle classes who marched on that day of indignant protest also had a quite different programme in mind, one that was far removed from their proclaimed ideal. Their deep values were in fact more reminiscent of the most depressing aspects of France’s national history: conservatism, selfishness, domination and inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy identifying the anthropological, religious, economic and political forces that brought France to the edge of the abyss, Todd reveals the real dangers posed to all western societies when the interests of privileged middle classes work against marginalised and immigrant groups. Should we really continue to mistreat young people, force the children of immigrants to live on the outskirts of our cities, consign the poorer classes to the remoter parts of the country, demonise Islam, and allow the growth of an ever more menacing anti-Semitism? While asking uncomfortable questions and offering no easy solutions, Todd points to the difficult and uncertain path that might lead to an accommodation with Islam rather than a deepening and divisive confrontation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER ONE: A religious crisis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe terminal crisis in Catholicism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious decline and the rise of xenophobia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatholic France and secular France: 1750-1960\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe two Frances and equality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the One God to the single currency\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrançois Hollande, the Left, and zombie Catholicism 2005: a missed opportunity in class struggle?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDifficult atheism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TWO: Charlie\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlie: middle class and zombie Catholics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeo-republicanism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1992-2015: from pro-Europeanism to neo-republicanism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe neo-republican reality: the ‘social state’ of the middle classes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlie is anxious\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecularism versus the Left\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatholicism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER THREE: When equality fails\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe difficulties of secular, egalitarian France\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe anthropology of a capitalism in crisis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Europe of inequality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrance, the Germans and the Arabs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGermany and circumcision\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe great pro-European happening of 11 January 2015 Russia: an exceptional case\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe mystery of Paris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe memory of places\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe four stages of the crisis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FOUR: The French of the Far Right\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe slow march of the National Front towards la France central\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA perversion of universalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepublican anti-Semitism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLe Pen, Sarkozy and equality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Socialist Party and inequality: the concept of objective xenophobia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMélenchon and inequality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe insignificance of human beings and the violence of ideologies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FIVE: The French Muslims\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe disintegration of North African cultures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMixed marriages: Jews and Muslims\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeologues and exogamy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe crushing of young people and the jihad factory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScottish fundamentalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving beyond the fear of religion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslam and equality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe inequality of the sexes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe anti-Semitism of the suburbs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCONCLUSION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe real republican past\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe neo-republican present\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFuture 1: Confrontation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFuture 2: the return to the Republic: an accommodation with Islam\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA foreseeable deterioration\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe secret weapon of the republican revival\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52470058221848,"sku":"9781509505777","price":14.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509505777.jpg?v=1785630742","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/who-is-charlie-xenophobia-and-the-new-middle-class-hardback-9781509505777","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}