Papers by Riva Kastoryano
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), May 16, 2022
Burying Jihadis, 2018
If burial implies associating a name and a place,1 the burial of jihadis raises practical questio... more If burial implies associating a name and a place,1 the burial of jihadis raises practical questions – about land and traces. For states, it often amounts to, reterritorializing the body. Faced with a discourse drawing on a religious repertoire calling for a non-territorial war, the challenge for states is to preserve their sacredness and develop a narrative to counteract the rhetoric denying their power in the name of a superior divine force that drives the martyr to his death.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 18, 2016
How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands, 2020
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific r... more HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Politique étrangère, 2010
Les minorités de diaspora deviennent -et particulièrement en Europede véritables acteurs politiqu... more Les minorités de diaspora deviennent -et particulièrement en Europede véritables acteurs politiques. Elles contribuent à remodeler les États d'accueil, préservant des identités de plus en plus souvent garanties par des législations spécifiques. Elles contribuent ainsi à la reconfiguration des espaces diplomatiques grâce à leur rôle de représentation d'« ambassadeurs privés ». La complexité de leurs relations avec les États donne lieu à un nouvel espace diasporique dénationalisé et à une diplomatie fondée sur la situation de minorité de certains groupes sociaux, notamment religieux. Les populations en situation de minorité, du fait de leur appartenance à d'autres États, d'autres nations, d'autres peuples ou encore d'autres religions, se trouvent aujourd'hui au coeur de la redéfinition des rapports de force politiques nationaux et internationaux. Cela renvoie au phénomène classique de communauté ethnique et sa « diasporisation », c'est-à-dire, à la mise en place de liens de solidarité à partir d'une identité -nationale, religieuse, linguistique ou régionale -au-delà des frontières étatiques. Intensifiée par l'ampleur des migrations, la consolidation de ces réseaux dits transnationaux, non seulement favorise les transferts culturels, sociaux, politiques, voire idéologiques, mais guide aussi les activités qui relient le pays d'origine au pays d'installation, donne aux migrants « l'illusion de la non-permanence 1 » de leur départ, et fait des populations « déplacées » ou « en mouvement » de nouveaux acteurs des relations internationales. Elles sont désormais le moteur de changements des politiques intérieure et extérieure dans au moins deux sociétés, deux États, voire au-delà.
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2004
... And we also read “How to Save 150 Billion Francs?” in Rivarol, an extreme right-wing newspape... more ... And we also read “How to Save 150 Billion Francs?” in Rivarol, an extreme right-wing newspaper (March 27, 1986), or “Land of Asylum or Milk Cow?” in another extremist news-paper, Aspects de la France (December 19, 1985). ...
Diversity and Contestations over Nationalism in Europe and Canada, 2018
There is very little theoretically and normatively informed empirical research that seeks to juxt... more There is very little theoretically and normatively informed empirical research that seeks to juxtapose studies of national contestation with other, non-national, perspectives. This collection does so by juxtaposing analyses of Canada and Europe (the EU, member and closely affiliated non-member states). It focuses on contestations over nationalism, with transnational nationalism and new nationalism reflecting contestations within the ambit of nationalism, and cosmopolitanism as contestation about nationalism. Together, they make up the book’s themes on contestations over nationalism. Clarifying the terms of contestation—is it still about nationalism, or is it about factors and phenomena that should be more suitably labelled under other categories of social identification and co-existence—is important in order to understand the nature of our contemporary societies and, not least, how they deal with diversity.
The question of how to reconcile diversity and integration has occupied public debates, political... more The question of how to reconcile diversity and integration has occupied public debates, political agendas and social sciences for decades. This working paper provides a brief outline of how the project Negotiating Diversity in Expanded European Public Spaces (PLURISPACE) addresses these matters. Our point of departure is that questions pertaining to the governing and recognition of diversity in Europe cannot be properly addressed without at the same time taking into account the multilevel character of European public space, the multiple characters of the groups (national/religion based etc.), and the multiple modes of integration. Within such a complex European space, we identify four policy/theoretical approaches to diversity management and understanding of public space: multiculturalism, interculturalism, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. Each ‘ism’ has its own conception of public space, diversity, equality and solidarity. Our main aim is to contribute to the normativities th...
An Identity for Europe, 2009
Social Research: An International Quarterly
This article explores the elaboration of differences through the use of concepts of categories an... more This article explores the elaboration of differences through the use of concepts of categories and policies with regard to the Other in France, Germany and the United States. It analyses three approaches in the definition of Otherness: The first one is interactive, that is the interaction between states and groups in search of political recognition. Through interactions one can measure the dynamics and the mechanisms of boundary construction and justify its legitimacy The second approach is normative. It is based on justice and equality as means of recognition. And the third approach is political. It is based both on empirical reality and normative perception and leads to institutional adjustments. All the three approaches come to show how explicitly or implicitly how an element of identity becomes a "permanent difference", and is perceived ad the main source of cleavage in one society; and how this difference change from one society to another but also it switches over the time within one society.
Presses de Sciences Po eBooks, 2005
... principal des catégories semble être de nous permettre d'avancer des propositions en uti... more ... principal des catégories semble être de nous permettre d'avancer des propositions en utilisant le passé contre les processus rationnels faussement objectifs du présent[25] [25] E ... En France, le manque de donnée statistiques et l'absence de catégories ethniques ou raciales ...
Presses de Sciences Po eBooks, Mar 1, 2009
Quelle identité pour l'Europe ?, 2005
The spectacular attacks on New York City on 11 September 2001 carried out by 19 suicide bombers b... more The spectacular attacks on New York City on 11 September 2001 carried out by 19 suicide bombers belonging to the al-Qaeda network kicked off the century. Other, more recent attacks in different European cities, this time claimed by the Islamic State, have made terrorist acts daily news across the globe. Despite the differences in organization (a network such as al-Qaeda or grouped by territories such as Islamic State), these youth, engaged on the path of violence in the name of jihad, are guided by the force of the singular narrative of membership in the Ummah, the world-wide Muslim community, that lends all its strength to the appropriation of an ideology and the transition to violence. They are fuelled by discourses of “humiliated Islam,” of the war in Iraq and of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and by a sentiment of revenge. By the same token, social networks, the main sites for dissemination of radical discourse and recruitment, play an important role in their commitment to the...
L'islam en Turquie est devenu source de polemique divisant la nation entre " laiques et ... more L'islam en Turquie est devenu source de polemique divisant la nation entre " laiques et musulmans " : ce clivage est a la une des journaux depuis 1997. Depuis lors, l'islam politique est declare explicitement l'ennemi interieur de l'Etat turc. Symbolise par le foulard, il devient outil de resistance vis-a-vis de l'Etat, et de liberte identitaire indiscutable, il porte ombrage a la force mobilisatrice de l'identite officielle, remettant ainsi en cause sa place indefinie dans la " conscience nationale " et dans les institutions de l'Etat. Ainsi, la lutte officielle contre l'islam politique qui cherche a mobiliser les passions et les emotions a son encontre ne fait que le renforcer et conduit a toute sorte d'interpretations allant de la foi de la nation a la foi individuelle, d'une culture collective a sa reconnaissance dans la vie politique et, tout en voulant separer religion et politique, souligne la difficulte de definir u...
In 1999, Germany broke with its conception of nationality as the right based on place of birth, r... more In 1999, Germany broke with its conception of nationality as the right based on place of birth, recognized since 1913, and even with its conception of the nation going back to Herder and Fichte. This event, as significant for it as for Europe, is put into historical perspective. It shows Germany as a country of immigration, a multicultural society in which participation could lead to citizenship, a nation and a state in which new citizens upset legacies and representations and in which double nationality is not a panacea. The strength of immigration, Turkish above all, has forced the country to negotiate its own identity differently and to seek a democracy beyond the one set up in 1949.
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