Kamakshi P. Murti is Professor Emerita of German at Middlebury College. She has published extensively on German colonialism and imperialism, minorities discourse, and second- and foreign-language education. She is the author of India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism (2001).

• Contents: Borderlands and identities – France, Germany, and Islamophobia – ‘Tolerance’ and Germany’s ‘ignoble’ minorities? – The ungrievable writings of Özdamar and Şenocak – France and its banlieues défavorisées – The hijab as metaphor for linguistic terrorism – Deliberative dialogue and social justice.

Kamakshi P. Murti is Professor Emerita of German at Middlebury College. She has published extensively on German colonialism and imperialism, minorities discourse, and second- and foreign-language education. She is the author of India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism (2001).

• Contents: Borderlands and identities – France, Germany, and Islamophobia – ‘Tolerance’ and Germany’s ‘ignoble’ minorities? – The ungrievable writings of Özdamar and Şenocak – France and its banlieues défavorisées – The hijab as metaphor for linguistic terrorism – Deliberative dialogue and social justice.

Kamakshi P. Murti is Professor Emerita of German at Middlebury College. She has published extensively on German colonialism and imperialism, minorities discourse, and second- and foreign-language education. She is the author of India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism (2001).

• Contents: Borderlands and identities – France, Germany, and Islamophobia – ‘Tolerance’ and Germany’s ‘ignoble’ minorities? – The ungrievable writings of Özdamar and Şenocak – France and its banlieues défavorisées – The hijab as metaphor for linguistic terrorism – Deliberative dialogue and social justice.