Cosmopolitan Anxieties

by Mandel, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780822341765
• ISBN10: 082234176X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Ruth Mandel's study of the Turks of Germany is perhaps the most important single book yet written examining the complexity and contradictions of the Muslims in today's Europe. Looking at the various communities (Turks, Alevis, and Kurds) that make up the Turkish presence in Germany and delineating the complexity of a German identity after the Shoah and German reunification as the background to the debates about these Islamic presences, Mandel is able to provide first-hand, sophisticated answers to the most troubling questions about the shifting world of Islam in Europe. A study that will quickly become a classic for any examination of Europe and Islam."--Sander L. Gilman, author of "Multiculturalism and the Jews"

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Note on Language	p. xxiii
Introduction: Germany, Turkey, and the Space In-Between	p. 1
Berlin: A Prelude	p. 23
Shifting Cosmopolitics	p. 27
"We Called for Labor, but People Came Instead"	p. 51
Making Auslander	p. 80
Haunted Jewish Spaces and Turkish Phantasms of the Present	p. 109
Berlin's Kreuzberg: Topographies of Infraction	p. 141
Beyond the Bridge: Two Banks of the River	p. 155
Minor Literatures and Professional Ethnics	p. 184
Practicing German Citizenship	p. 206
Deracination to Diaspora: Leave and Leaving	p. 232
Reimagining Islams in Berlin	p. 248
Veiling Modernities	p. 294
Conclusion: Reluctant Cosmopolitans	p. 311
Glossary	p. 327
Notes	p. 329
Works Cited	p. 359
Index	p. 403
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