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

该项目着手研究2001年至今伊斯兰世界在意大利的代表性。它将详细研究作家，评论员和记者的工作，他们就意大利与伊斯兰世界的关系撰写了大量文章，并将审查媒体-从新闻评论，外国信件，散文集，自传，旅行写作甚至小说-他们的观点已经表达。因此，它将揭示意大利和伊斯兰世界的思想被推进的框架;理解身份和差异所依赖的概念范围;最一致使用的修辞手段和修辞格。通过这种分析，该项目将显示，在一个非常戏剧性的时期，伊斯兰世界如何被呈现为意大利社会的内部行为者，作为邻国的存在，作为替代文明的场所或作为威胁性的其他人。该项目将研究伊斯兰教在意大利迅速发展的明显存在如何影响伊斯兰世界的总体代表性。它将展示关于意大利与伊斯兰世界关系的著作如何揭示有关全球化、移民以及在日益相互联系和多元文化的世界中民族认同的意义的潜在问题、问题和当务之急。对当代意大利伊斯兰世界的对比观点和特征的分析也将着眼于意大利文化中穆斯林世界的代表性的更长历史。通过考虑就意大利现代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性、同一性和差异性的方式进行比较/对比。第一部分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。第二篇文章将关注同一时期内各种声音和不同媒体所表达的对意大利和伊斯兰世界的更微妙和反思性的观点。第三个将涉及当代的看法，以代表伊斯兰世界在现代意大利文化的更长的历史。

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.