Off and on stage interactions: Muslim-Jewish encounter in urban Europe. Date: Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic and interview-based research in six cities Berlin and Frankfurt in Germany, London and Manchester in the UK and Paris and Strasbourg in France , this article explores intercultural, interethnic and interreligious encounter as exemplified by Jewish-Muslim interaction. We show that the texture and the possibilities and sometimes impossibility of encounters are structured intersectionally crucially by class and by generation , and shaped by patterns of insecurity and securitisation and by different available discursive repertoires and cognitive frames produced at supra-national, national, local and micro-local levels — e.
Although insecurity, securitisation, policy panic and geopolitical pressures can block meaningful encounter, emerging transdiasporic cultural formations point towards some fragile resources for hope. Author s : Everett, Samuel Sami. Abstract: Built from nothing on the Parisian periphery in the s, the neighbourhood known as Les Flanades in Sarcelles is perhaps the single largest North African Jewish urban space in France.
Though heavily policed since , Les Flanades had been free from violence. The violence pitted protestors and residents against one another in a schematic Israel v. Palestine frame leading to confrontations between many descendants of North African Jews and Muslims. This approach involves looking at shifting landscapes and changing dynamics of demography, religiosity and security and describing some tendencies that resist these changes consciously or not.
Examples include the re-appropriation of Arabic para-liturgy and an encounter with a lawyer from Sarcelles who has taken a stand in prominent racialized public legal contests.
Author s : Lev Ari, Lilach. The main results indicate that both groups have strong Jewish and religious identities. However, while immigrants had fewer opportunities for upward mobility and were more committed to national integration, the younger second-generation have higher socio-economic status and more choices regarding their identities in contemporary France.
