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

该项目涉及呼吁的两个主题，即新兴的威胁政治和不断变化的身份和代表性，与穆斯林在欧洲公共领域的存在有关。该项目分为两个研究阶段，随后是一个涉及民间社会和政策行为者的行动阶段，其目的是（a）考虑在四个具有不同少数群体包容传统的欧洲社会中，随着穆斯林人数的增加而出现的共同威胁话语;（B）通过研究穆斯林在“民主缺失”时代出现的不断变化的身份和表现，超越这种“以问题为导向”的方法。一个关键的目标是通过关注对污名化和排斥的反应，在重新阐述在两极分化的欧洲“成为穆斯林”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移接触和对话的创新做法。该项目将利用人种志方法，通过与城市环境中的穆斯林进行广泛的接触，绘制文化生产和活动图，并特别关注青年和性别问题。在研究欧洲公共领域中穆斯林普遍存在的威胁话语的同时，该项目将自己与许多以愚蠢的方式代表穆斯林机构的研究区分开来。通过与民间社会行为体合作，重点关注新形式的参与和对话，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.