QUEST(Qualify Unification in Europe for Shifting Trust)A comparative research on Muslims responses to the politics of threat in France,UK,Spain&Norway

该项目涉及这一呼吁的两个主题，即新出现的威胁政治和不断变化的身份，以及与穆斯林在欧洲公共领域的存在有关的问题和陈述。通过两个阶段的研究，然后是民间社会和政策行为者参与的行动阶段，该项目旨在：(A)考虑穆斯林在四个具有不同少数群体包容传统的欧洲社会中日益增多的威胁的共同论调；(B)通过审查穆斯林身份和代表的变化，超越这种以问题为导向的方法，因为这些身份和代表是在“民主赤字”时代出现的。一个关键的目标是，通过关注对污名和排斥的反应，在重新阐述在两极分化的欧洲“作为穆斯林”意味着什么的过程中，确定个人和集体的话语、做法和战略。最后的行动阶段(C)将寻求在不同的欧洲背景下转让接触和对话的创新做法。该项目将利用民族志方法，通过在城市环境中扩大与穆斯林的接触，绘制文化生产和激进主义地图，并特别关注青年和性别。虽然承认在欧洲公共领域充斥着穆斯林代表的威胁言论，但该项目将自己与许多以枯燥方式代表穆斯林机构的研究区分开来。通过侧重于与民间社会行为者合作的新形式的接触和对话，该项目力求在日益焦虑和不信任的时期促进更具包容性的社会。

This project addresses two themes of the call, the emerging politics of threat and shifting identitiesand representations, in relation to the presence of Muslims in European public spheres. Throughtwo phases of research, followed by an action phase involving civil society and policy actors, theproject aims to (a) consider common discourses of threat accompanying the growing presence ofMuslims in four European societies with different traditions of minority inclusion; (b) to movebeyond such ‘problem oriented’ approaches by examining the shifting identities andrepresentations of Muslims as these are emerging in an era of ‘democratic deficit’. A key aim is toidentify individual and collective discourses, practices and strategies in the re-elaboration processof what it means to ‘be Muslim’ in a polarized Europe, by focusing on responses to stigmatizationand exclusion. A final action phase (c) will seek to transfer innovative practices of engagement anddialogue across the different European contexts. The project will make use of an ethnographicapproach that involves mapping cultural production and activism through extended engagementwith Muslims in urban settings, and with a special focus on youth and gender. While acknowledgingthe discourses of threat that pervade representations of Muslims in European public spheres, theproject distinguishes itself from much of the research that represents Muslim agency in a stultifyingmanner. By focusing on new forms of engagement and dialogue in collaboration with civil societyactors, the project seeks to promote more inclusive societies in a period of growing anxiety andmistrust.