Reading Representations/Representing Self: The Cultural Politics of Islam

Since the attacks, many pages have been given over to dissecting the myriad ways in which media discourses work to fuel pre-existing western fears about Islam and Muslims. [...]the essays presented in the edited volume by Christopher Flood, Stephen Hutchings, Galina Miazhevich and Henri Nickels interrogate the often one-dimensional socio-political accounts of 'Muslimness' found in media and political narratives and challenge such views by offering alternative - Muslim-centred - perspectives.