Italy and the Islamic World: Culture, Identity and Representation (2001-2011)

该项目旨在研究从2001年到现在，伊斯兰世界是如何在意大利得到代表的。它将详细研究那些就意大利与伊斯兰世界的关系撰写了大量文章的作家、评论员和记者的作品，并将审查他们表达观点的媒体--从新闻评论、外国通信、散文集、自传、旅行写作，甚至是小说。因此，它将揭示关于意大利和伊斯兰世界的思想被提出的框架；所依赖的理解同一性和差异的概念的范围；最一致地使用的修辞手法和修辞手法。通过这种分析，该项目将展示，在一段异常戏剧性的时期，伊斯兰世界如何被呈现为意大利社会内部的参与者，作为邻国的存在，作为另类文明的场所，或者作为威胁他人。该项目将研究在意大利境内容易看到的伊斯兰存在的快速发展如何影响整个伊斯兰世界的表现方式。它将展示关于意大利与伊斯兰世界关系的著作如何揭示关于全球化、移民和民族认同在一个日益相互联系和多元文化的世界中的意义的根本问题、问题和关注。对当代意大利伊斯兰世界的不同观点和特征的分析也将着眼于穆斯林世界在意大利文化中的代表的更长历史。通过考虑就现代意大利历史上其他关键时刻出现的同一主题进行写作，该项目将把当前对伊斯兰世界的看法与以前理解相似、认同和差异的方式进行比较/对比。该提议的成果将是三篇重要文章。第一本书将考察在当代意大利表现出来的各种反伊斯兰情绪，以及它们如何代表穆斯林世界。第二篇文章将涉及同一时期不同声音和不同媒体表达的关于意大利和伊斯兰世界的更多细微差别和反思的观点。第三个将把当代的看法与在现代意大利文化中代表伊斯兰世界的更长历史联系起来。

The project sets out to examine how the Islamic world has been represented in Italy from 2001 to the present. It will look in detail at the work of writers, commentators and journalists who have written extensively on Italy's relationship with the Islamic world and it will examine the media - ranging from journalistic comment, foreign correspondence, collections of essays, autobiographies, travel writing and even fiction - in which their views have been expressed. It will thus reveal the framework in which ideas on Italy and the Islamic world have been advanced; the range of concepts for understanding identity and difference that are relied upon; the rhetorical devices and figures of speech that are used most consistently. Through this kind of analysis, the project will show how, over an exceptionally dramatic period of time, the Islamic world has been presented as an internal actor within Italian society, as a neighbouring presence, as a site of alternative civilization or as a minatory other. The project will examine how the rapid development of an easily visible Islamic presence within Italy impacts on the way in which the Islamic world in general is represented. It will show how writings on Italy's relationship with the Islamic world reveal underlying issues, questions and preoccupations concerning globalization, migration, and the meaning of national identity in an increasingly inter-connected and multicultural world. The analysis of contrasting views and characterizations of the Islamic world in contemporary Italy will also look at the longer history of the representation of the Muslim world within Italian culture. By considering writing on the same subject that appeared at other key moments in modern Italian history, the project will place current views on the Islamic world in comparison/ contrast with previous ways of understanding similarity, identity and difference.The outputs of the proposal will be three substantial articles. The first will examine the various currents of anti-Islamic feeling that have found expression in contemporary Italy and how they have represented the Muslim world. The second article will be concerned with more nuanced and reflective views on Italy and the Islamic world that have been expressed by various voices and through different media during the same period of time. The third will relate contemporary perceptions to the longer history of representing the Islamic world within modern Italian culture.