Event of <em>Charlie Hebdo</em>

Alessandro Zagato is a postdoctoral researcher in the Egalitarianism Project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), within the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, where he is developing a research project on the interplay between politics and aesthetics in indigenous movements of the south of Mexico. He recently edited an issue of Rufian Revista on aesthetics and autonomy in the Zapatista movement and published a chapter in Cyborg Subjects: Discourses on Digital Cultures (Shoestring Anthologies, 2013).

"The year that ended for France with the coordinated attacks on Paris in November 2015 began long ago with the January attack on the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Although the memory already seems distant, ten months is not much time in academia; it usually takes almost that long for a finished manuscript to reach publication, but in this diminutive volume we have nine essays composed, edited, and published in an outstandingly timely manner, in both senses of the term--that ten months is not much time, and that once again it is time to make sense of an Islamic assault on a Western country." - Anthropology Review Database

• Introduction Bjorn Enge Bertelsen and Alessandro Zagato Chapter 1. The Barbariat and Democratic Tolerance Knut Rio Chapter 2. Charlie Hebdo: The West and the Sacred Axel Rudi Chapter 3. The Thoughtcrimes of an Eight-Year-Old Maria Dyveke Styve Chapter 4. Imaginaries of Violence and Surrogates for Politics Alessandro Zagato Chapter 5. Where Were You, Charlie? Mari Hanssen Korsbrekke Chapter 6. Moral, All-Too Moral: Satire, Morality, and Charlie Hebdo Jacob Hjortsberg Chapter 7. Unfreedom of Speech: On Silence and Mafia Personhood Theodoros Rakopoulos Afterword Bruce Kapferer