{"product_id":"the-republic-unsettled-9780822357346","title":"The Republic Unsettled","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Republic Unsettle\u003c\/i\u003ed is thick, sophisticated thinking, which should unsettle the comfortable certainties of French and American secularism and monoculturalism. . . . Anthropologists like Fernando comprehend the situation most fully, and we owe it to our fellow citizens and our own societies to get the message out as widely and loudly as possible.\" -- Jack David Eller * Anthropology Review Database *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Republic Unsettled\u003c\/i\u003e is invaluable not only for anthropologists and ethnographers but also for scholars wanting to deepen their understanding of how contemporary secularism functions as a theory of politics and society, including through its contradictions, tensions, inconsistencies, anxieties, and instabilities.\" -- Roshan A. Jahangeer * ReOrient *\u003cbr\u003e“By taking the debate away from the well-worn lines of whether or not ‘Muslims’ can be or are ‘integrated’ (in other words, whether or not Muslims are an unsettling presence or not in the republic), and by instead underlining how the republic itself is inherently ‘unsettled’, this book will no doubt rile many French secular republicans and become a key point of reference in future studies of the French Republic, laı¨cite´, and ‘non-normative’ identities.” -- Natalya Vince * French Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Republic Unsettled \u003c\/i\u003eis a crucial and stimulating read for any scholar thinking about secularism and secularity, difference politics, contemporary France and Europe, and\/or Western liberalism(s) and liberal (in)tolerance. The book (and especially its vivid, emotional, and purposeful introduction) can easily find resonance across a variety of social science, religion, and history disciplines.” -- Carol Ferrara * Journal of Church and State *\u003cbr\u003e“That her book ends with a legitimate comparison between William Connolly's notions of critical responsiveness and agonistic respect and the way in which her Muslim French interlocutors think shows that the history of colonization, immigration and the creation of diasporas does not have to lead to a conflict of civilizations or economically reductive globalization but can produce rich and complex hybrids or mouvements aberrants that can genuinely contribute to human progress. What \u003ci\u003eThe Republic Unsettled \u003c\/i\u003emanages to convey is that those who seem marginal to the present could be central to a better future, and that is indeed a very remarkable achievement.” -- Nardina Kaur * Radical Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Republic Unsettled\u003c\/i\u003e is a dense, but extremely well written book that exposes and 'unsettles,' as the title indicates, secular republicanism by laying bare its numerous inconsistences and paradoxes. … In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, which has issued in an uncritically and self-gratulatory reinvigoration of secular republicanism in France, accompanied by a dramatic increase in anti-Muslim violence, Mayanthi Fernando’s book is more timely and urgent than ever.” -- Jeanette S. Jouili * Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World *\u003cbr\u003e\"Because Fernando makes a lucid argument based on extended ethnography and sophisticated reading in political theory, \u003ci\u003eThe Republic Unsettled\u003c\/i\u003e will surely be read widely by all those engaged in thinking about the politics of diversity in Europe.\" -- John R. Bowen * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"I offer the highest praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Republic Unsettled\u003c\/i\u003e: it is a beautifully written book that readers will be eager to continue discussing long after they finish it.\" -- Jennifer Fredette * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        vii   Introduction        1   Field Notes I: \"Vive la Republique Plurielle\"        29   1. \"The Republic Is Mine\"        33   2. Indifference, or the Right to Citizenship        69   Field Notes II: Friday Prayers        101   3. \"A Memorial to the Future\"        105   4. Reconfiguring Freedom        145   Field Notes III: A Tale of Two Manifestos        181   5. Of Mimicry and Woman        185   6. Asymmetries of Tolerance        221   Epilogue        261   Notes        267   References        285   Index        305","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406082941271,"sku":"9780822357346","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822357346.jpg?v=1730494468","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-republic-unsettled-9780822357346","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}