Culture, Media, and Western-Muslim Intersections
Edited by Karim H. Karim and Mahmoud Eid
Published by Palgrave Macmillan
The 21st century exploded into the global imagination with unforgettable scenes of death and destruction. An apocalyptic “clash of civilizations” seemed to be waged between two old foes: the West and Islam.
However, the decade-long and ruinous “war on terror” has prompted re-assessments of the militaristic approach to Western-Muslim relations. A growing number of academics, policymakers, religious leaders, journalists and activists view the struggles as resulting from a “clash of ignorance”.
Re-Imagining the Other examines the ways in which knowledge is manipulated by dominant Western and Muslim discourses. Authors from several disciplines study how the two societies have constructed images of each other in historical and contemporary times.
The complexities and subtleties of their mutually productive relationship are overshadowed by portrayals of unremitting clash, which serves as encouragement for the promotion of war and terrorism. The book proposes specific approaches to re-imagine the Other in order to mitigate Western-Muslim conflict.
Karim H. Karim is Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam and Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.
Mahmoud Eid is Associate Professor at the Department of Communications at the University of Ottawa.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 in Communication and Media Studies, Faculty Publications, Journalism, News
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