new
book series from Palgrave Macmillan
Series editors Umut Özkırımlı and Spyros
Sofos - Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University.
International Advisory Board includes (in alphabetical order)
Seyla Benhabib, Sondra Hale, Deniz Kandiyoti, Saba Mahmood, Jorgen S. Nielsen,
James Piscatori, Gayatri C. Spivak, Bryan S. Turner, Peter van der Veer, Nira
Yuval-Davis and Sami Zubaida.
One
of the main objectives of this series is to explore the relationship between
Islam, nationalism and citizenship in its diverse expressions. The series
intends to provide a space for approaches that recognize the potential of Islam
to permeate and inspire national forms of identification, and systems of
government as well as its capacity to inspire oppositional politics,
alternative modes of belonging and the formation of counterpublics in a variety
of local, national or transnational contexts.
By recognizing Islam as a transnational phenomenon
and situating it within transdisciplinary and innovative theoretical contexts,
the series will showcase approaches that examine aspects of the formation and
activation of Muslim experience, identity and social action. In order to do
justice to, and make better sense of contemporary Islam, the series also seeks
to combine the best of current comparative, genuinely interdisciplinary
research that takes on board cutting-edge work in sociology, anthropology,
nationalism studies, social movement research and cultural studies as well as
history and politics. As research on Islam as a form of identity is rapidly
expanding and as interest both within the academia and the policy community is
intensifying, we believe that there is an urgent need for coherent and
innovative interventions, identifying the questions that will shape ongoing and
future research and policy, and exploring and formulating conceptual and
methodological responses to current challenges.
The proposed series is intended to play a part in
such an effort. It will do so by addressing a number of key questions that we
and a large number of specialist interlocutors within the academia, the policy
community, but also within Muslim organizations and networks have been grappling
with. Our approach is premised on our understanding of Islam and the concept of
the nation as resources for social identification and collective action in the
broadest sense of these terms, and the need to explore the ways in which these
interact with each other, inform public debate, giving rise to a diversity of
experiences and practices.
We would like to thank The Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, Lund University, for their support in initiating the series
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