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York Hall, York University Glendon Campus, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON
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Join Emily Laxer for the launch of her new book, Unveiling the Nation: The Politics of Secularism in France and Quebec. The event will be held in York Hall (A304) at York University Glendon Campus.
Emily Laxer's Unveiling the Nation problematizes this approach. Using France and Quebec as illustrative cases, she traces how the struggle of political parties for power and legitimacy shapes states' responses to Islamic signs. Drawing on historical evidence and behind-the-scenes interviews with politicians and activists, Laxer uncovers unseen links between structures of partisan conflict and the strategies that political actors employ when articulating the secular boundaries of the nation. In France's historically class-based political system, she demonstrates, parties on the left and the right have converged around a restrictive secular agenda in order to limit the siphoning of votes by the ultra-right. In Quebec, by contrast, the longstanding electoral salience of the "national question" has encouraged political actors to project highly conflicting images of the province's secular past, present, and future.
Emily Laxer is assistant professor of sociology at Glendon College, York University.