Facing Terrorism in France Lessons from the 2015 Paris Attacks

“France has been the target of more terrorist attacks than any other Western country. In this major contribution to the burgeoning new field of ‘terrorism studies’, these attacks are subjected to intense social scientific analysis.” – Jolyon Howorth, Harvard University, USA “This timely and importan...

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Other Authors: Faucher, Florence (Editor), Truc, Gérôme (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:French Politics, Society and Culture
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction (Florence Faucher and Gérôme Truc)
  • Chapter 2. At the Centre of the Attack: from Individual Fear to Mutual Assistance (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Chapter 3. Out in the Street: Ephemeral Memorials to Express Mourning (Maëlle Bazin)
  • Chapter 4. On Television: Journalists Caught between Rival Demands (Pierre Lefébure and Claire Sécail)
  • Chapter 5. On the Internet: From Conflicting Values to Counter-Publics (Romain Badouard)
  • Chapter 6. In the Schools: Bringing Pupils into the National Community of Mourning (Sébastien Ledoux)
  • Chapter 7. French Muslims: A Silent Community? (Vincent Geisser)
  • Chapter 8. At the Upper Echelons of the State: Symbols to Build National Unity (Laurie Boussaguet and Florence Faucher)
  • Chapter 9. In People’s minds: An Authoritarian Dynamic or the Spread of Tolerance? (Vincent Tiberj)
  • Chapter 10. Social sciences in a time of terror (Gérôme Truc)