Nadia Kiwan
Biographic Data
| ID | 274700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadia Kiwan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadia |
| FAMILY NAME | Kiwan |
| SIGNATURE | KIWAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3610-6256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Decolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia
Over the last decade, we have witnessed the reinforcement of laïcité as a mode of governance, which increasingly focuses on France’s Muslim citizens. However, rather than argue that the reinforcement of laïcité is a response to a series of Islamist terror attacks since 2015 this article will consider the historical formations of political secularism in modern France and argue that we should take more seriously the historical and conceptual relati…
Confronting the politics of denial
Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 2022
Peer reviewed
Remembering on the city’s margins: The Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration in Paris
This article explores the role played by the Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration (MHI) in the broader political debates relating to collective memories of immigration in France. The discussion focuses on the ways in which the MHI, as both a national institution and a civil society network, engages with diverse publics from Paris, the Ile-de-France banlieues (suburbs) and other French regions which have historically been the site of significant m…
Artistic identities and professional strategies: Francophone musicians in France and Britain
This article will focus on the ways in which musicians of North African origin—either born in North Africa or in France and living in France and Britain—define their musical and artistic identities in relation to their national origins, place of birth, migration trajectories and location in which they perform their music. In particular, the article will focus on how perceptions of musicians’ national and post-migrant identities vary according to …
Freedom of thought in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks
The terrorist atrocities perpetrated against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on 7 January 2015 led to a national and international outpouring of anger and solidarity with the victims. This solidarity came to be expressed most clearly via the social media hashtag #JeSuisCharlie which spread across networks such as Facebook and Twitter in the hours and days after the shootings. In the first part of this article, I explore how the ‘Je suis Char…
Moroccan Multiplicities: Performing Transnationalism and Alternative Nationalism in the Contemporary Urban Music Scene
Over twenty years after its publication in 1993, Paul Gilroy’s book The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double Consciousness still provides a number of useful entry points for thinking about Moroccan musical creativity in general and Morocco’s contemporary urban music scene in particular. This article examines the cultural and linguistic repertoires of urban musicians in contemporary Morocco and explores their performative stances which simultaneo…
Muslim and secular: Performing ‘Muslim exemplarity’ and public debates on Islam in France
The place of Islam and Muslims in contemporary France has occupied the public sphere for well over two decades now, taking the form of a series of well-documented confrontations over the visibility of ‘Islamic’ symbols in schools and the public sphere. What generally attracts less scrutiny is the concurrent emergence of a number of organizations that define themselves as being simultaneously Muslim and secular. This article explores the phenomeno…
Metropolitan Hubs in the South
In the previous chapter we investigated the translocal networks that connect musicians from rural and provincial regions in Madagascar and Morocco with their metropolitan centres. In this chapter we will turn to the metropolitan cities themselves so as to view their role as central hubs, within their countries and transnationally. The focus here will be on some of the influential artists who live in Antananarivo or Casablanca, and on the people, …
Introduction: Networks and Transnational Movements: A Theoretical and Methodological Challenge to Migration Research
This is a book about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, seen through the alternative prism of artists from North Africa (mainly Morocco and Algeria) and Madagascar, and of their complex networks within and across African, European and wider global spaces: a decidedly ‘bottom-up’ view, which privileges the voices of people ‘on the move’. Our study presents and analyses the personal narratives and practices of such musici…
Mutual Supports: North <> South
In this chapter we will focus more closely on national cultural institutions in the North and the role they play in the facilitation and activation of transnational cultural networks. To what extent do institutions such as the British Council, the Institut français, the Goethe-Institut and those associated with them in the South such as the Cercle germanomalgache/Goethe Cultural Centre, the Alliance française, the Centre culturel Albert Camus or …
Mutual Supports: South <> North
In this chapter we will investigate an almost completely undocumented relationship existing or emerging between actors in civil society movements and socially engaged Malagasy and North African musicians. The civil society organizations in question are European-based NGOs and other more loosely structured associations and their transnational offshoots or links, whom we’ve encountered as a result of our work with individual musicians. Our own awar…
Translocal Networking in Madagascar and Morocco
The main focus of our book is on migrant musicians whose main residence is at present in Europe. However, in this first part we start at the point of origin. More specifically, in this chapter we begin with the artists from the provinces, who live in or come from some of the rural regions and provincial towns of Madagascar and Morocco, and in Chapter 2 we add those in the countries’ metropolitan cities.
Response to Annette: New friends and old foes? Diversity politics and national identity in Sarkozy’s France
Cultural Globalization and Music: African Artists in Transnational Networks
Migrant musicians on the African continent have established intricate networks between Europe and home, often returning from abroad to re-energize in their local musical community while bringing back with them cultural cache. Nadia Kiwan and Ulrike Hannah Meinhof’s study sets out to create a new model of these global music networks that span Europe and Africa. This model includes a host of interactions between the North and the South. As well as …
Shifting Sociocultural Identities: Young People of North African Origin in France
This chapter will ask to what extent the idea of the construction of a minority identity is pertinent or appropriate to the problématique of young people of North African origin living in stigmatised urban settings in contemporary France. Is there a conscious or collective articulation of a culturally and socially specific experience linking this ‘post-migrant’ generation together? In the last 25 years, many social and political commentators, in …
A critical perspective on socially embedded cultural policy in France
This paper aims to show how in France, the synthesis of cultural policy and social concerns throws up a number of tensions and pitfalls. These tensions are perhaps most acute because these sorts of cultural policies are not merely about socio‐economic issues but are actually tied to France’s colonial legacy and the presence of a large and often marginalised population of migrants and their descendents. The pitfalls stem from the universalist star…
Equal opportunities and republican revival: Post-migrant politics in contemporary France (20022005)
This article explores two contradictory developments in government approaches to the socio-economic and cultural incorporation of France's post-migrant generations. It focuses on the emergence at the heart of government, of equal opportunity discourses and contrasts this with the recent reassertion of more traditionally republican values, as demonstrated by the 2004 law banning conspicuous religious symbols in public schools. In June 2004, Prime …
Managing Marginalization: Young French-North Africans and Local Associations
This article is about associational life among French-North Africans in the Paris suburbs. Associational life has been seen as an important means for excluded groups to exercise agency, especially in the two following bodies of theory: new citizenship and transnational studies literature. This article contrasts these influential theoretical perspectives with empirical research on youth engagement in associations. I argue that both the literature …
Freedom of thought in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks
The terrorist atrocities perpetrated against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on 7 January 2015 led to a national and international outpouring of anger and solidarity with the victims. This solidarity came to be expressed most clearly via the social media hashtag #JeSuisCharlie which spread across networks such as Facebook and Twitter in the hours and days after the shootings. In the first part of this article, I explore how the ‘Je suis Char…
Equal opportunities and republican revival: Post-migrant politics in contemporary France (20022005)
This article explores two contradictory developments in government approaches to the socio-economic and cultural incorporation of France's post-migrant generations. It focuses on the emergence at the heart of government, of equal opportunity discourses and contrasts this with the recent reassertion of more traditionally republican values, as demonstrated by the 2004 law banning conspicuous religious symbols in public schools. In June 2004, Prime …
A critical perspective on socially embedded cultural policy in France
This paper aims to show how in France, the synthesis of cultural policy and social concerns throws up a number of tensions and pitfalls. These tensions are perhaps most acute because these sorts of cultural policies are not merely about socio‐economic issues but are actually tied to France’s colonial legacy and the presence of a large and often marginalised population of migrants and their descendents. The pitfalls stem from the universalist star…
Decolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia
Over the last decade, we have witnessed the reinforcement of laïcité as a mode of governance, which increasingly focuses on France’s Muslim citizens. However, rather than argue that the reinforcement of laïcité is a response to a series of Islamist terror attacks since 2015 this article will consider the historical formations of political secularism in modern France and argue that we should take more seriously the historical and conceptual relati…
Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 2022
Peer reviewed
Managing Marginalization: Young French-North Africans and Local Associations
This article is about associational life among French-North Africans in the Paris suburbs. Associational life has been seen as an important means for excluded groups to exercise agency, especially in the two following bodies of theory: new citizenship and transnational studies literature. This article contrasts these influential theoretical perspectives with empirical research on youth engagement in associations. I argue that both the literature …
Managing Marginalization: Young French-North Africans and Local Associations
This article is about associational life among French-North Africans in the Paris suburbs. Associational life has been seen as an important means for excluded groups to exercise agency, especially in the two following bodies of theory: new citizenship and transnational studies literature. This article contrasts these influential theoretical perspectives with empirical research on youth engagement in associations. I argue that both the literature …
Shifting Sociocultural Identities: Young People of North African Origin in France
This chapter will ask to what extent the idea of the construction of a minority identity is pertinent or appropriate to the problématique of young people of North African origin living in stigmatised urban settings in contemporary France. Is there a conscious or collective articulation of a culturally and socially specific experience linking this ‘post-migrant’ generation together? In the last 25 years, many social and political commentators, in …
A critical perspective on socially embedded cultural policy in France
This paper aims to show how in France, the synthesis of cultural policy and social concerns throws up a number of tensions and pitfalls. These tensions are perhaps most acute because these sorts of cultural policies are not merely about socio‐economic issues but are actually tied to France’s colonial legacy and the presence of a large and often marginalised population of migrants and their descendents. The pitfalls stem from the universalist star…
Equal opportunities and republican revival: Post-migrant politics in contemporary France (20022005)
This article explores two contradictory developments in government approaches to the socio-economic and cultural incorporation of France's post-migrant generations. It focuses on the emergence at the heart of government, of equal opportunity discourses and contrasts this with the recent reassertion of more traditionally republican values, as demonstrated by the 2004 law banning conspicuous religious symbols in public schools. In June 2004, Prime …
Metropolitan Hubs in the South
In the previous chapter we investigated the translocal networks that connect musicians from rural and provincial regions in Madagascar and Morocco with their metropolitan centres. In this chapter we will turn to the metropolitan cities themselves so as to view their role as central hubs, within their countries and transnationally. The focus here will be on some of the influential artists who live in Antananarivo or Casablanca, and on the people, …
Introduction: Networks and Transnational Movements: A Theoretical and Methodological Challenge to Migration Research
This is a book about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, seen through the alternative prism of artists from North Africa (mainly Morocco and Algeria) and Madagascar, and of their complex networks within and across African, European and wider global spaces: a decidedly ‘bottom-up’ view, which privileges the voices of people ‘on the move’. Our study presents and analyses the personal narratives and practices of such musici…
Mutual Supports: North <> South
In this chapter we will focus more closely on national cultural institutions in the North and the role they play in the facilitation and activation of transnational cultural networks. To what extent do institutions such as the British Council, the Institut français, the Goethe-Institut and those associated with them in the South such as the Cercle germanomalgache/Goethe Cultural Centre, the Alliance française, the Centre culturel Albert Camus or …
Mutual Supports: South <> North
In this chapter we will investigate an almost completely undocumented relationship existing or emerging between actors in civil society movements and socially engaged Malagasy and North African musicians. The civil society organizations in question are European-based NGOs and other more loosely structured associations and their transnational offshoots or links, whom we’ve encountered as a result of our work with individual musicians. Our own awar…
Translocal Networking in Madagascar and Morocco
The main focus of our book is on migrant musicians whose main residence is at present in Europe. However, in this first part we start at the point of origin. More specifically, in this chapter we begin with the artists from the provinces, who live in or come from some of the rural regions and provincial towns of Madagascar and Morocco, and in Chapter 2 we add those in the countries’ metropolitan cities.
Response to Annette: New friends and old foes? Diversity politics and national identity in Sarkozy’s France
Cultural Globalization and Music: African Artists in Transnational Networks
Migrant musicians on the African continent have established intricate networks between Europe and home, often returning from abroad to re-energize in their local musical community while bringing back with them cultural cache. Nadia Kiwan and Ulrike Hannah Meinhof’s study sets out to create a new model of these global music networks that span Europe and Africa. This model includes a host of interactions between the North and the South. As well as …
Muslim and secular: Performing ‘Muslim exemplarity’ and public debates on Islam in France
The place of Islam and Muslims in contemporary France has occupied the public sphere for well over two decades now, taking the form of a series of well-documented confrontations over the visibility of ‘Islamic’ symbols in schools and the public sphere. What generally attracts less scrutiny is the concurrent emergence of a number of organizations that define themselves as being simultaneously Muslim and secular. This article explores the phenomeno…
Moroccan Multiplicities: Performing Transnationalism and Alternative Nationalism in the Contemporary Urban Music Scene
Over twenty years after its publication in 1993, Paul Gilroy’s book The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double Consciousness still provides a number of useful entry points for thinking about Moroccan musical creativity in general and Morocco’s contemporary urban music scene in particular. This article examines the cultural and linguistic repertoires of urban musicians in contemporary Morocco and explores their performative stances which simultaneo…
Artistic identities and professional strategies: Francophone musicians in France and Britain
This article will focus on the ways in which musicians of North African origin—either born in North Africa or in France and living in France and Britain—define their musical and artistic identities in relation to their national origins, place of birth, migration trajectories and location in which they perform their music. In particular, the article will focus on how perceptions of musicians’ national and post-migrant identities vary according to …
Freedom of thought in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks
The terrorist atrocities perpetrated against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on 7 January 2015 led to a national and international outpouring of anger and solidarity with the victims. This solidarity came to be expressed most clearly via the social media hashtag #JeSuisCharlie which spread across networks such as Facebook and Twitter in the hours and days after the shootings. In the first part of this article, I explore how the ‘Je suis Char…
Remembering on the city’s margins: The Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration in Paris
This article explores the role played by the Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration (MHI) in the broader political debates relating to collective memories of immigration in France. The discussion focuses on the ways in which the MHI, as both a national institution and a civil society network, engages with diverse publics from Paris, the Ile-de-France banlieues (suburbs) and other French regions which have historically been the site of significant m…
Decolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia
Over the last decade, we have witnessed the reinforcement of laïcité as a mode of governance, which increasingly focuses on France’s Muslim citizens. However, rather than argue that the reinforcement of laïcité is a response to a series of Islamist terror attacks since 2015 this article will consider the historical formations of political secularism in modern France and argue that we should take more seriously the historical and conceptual relati…
Confronting the politics of denial
Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 2022
Peer reviewed
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (8 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works)