Introduction: Becoming symbolic : from Charlie Hebdo to "Charlie Hebdo" / Gavan Titley --
Charlie Hebdo, republican secularism and Islamophobia / Aurélien Mondon and Aaron Winter --
Meaning of "Charlie" : the debate on the troubled French identity / Philippe Marlière --
After the drama : the institutionalisation of gossiping about Muslims / Valérie Amiraux and Arber Fetiu --
Double-bind situation? : the depoliticisation of violence and the politics of compensation / Abdellali Hajjat --
Whiteness of innocence : Charlie Hebdo and the metaphysics of anti-terrorism in Europe / Nicholas De Genova --
Visible hand of the state / Gholam Khiabany --
Symbolic politics with brutally real effects : when "nobodies" make history / Markha Valenta --
Extremism, theirs and ours : Britain's "generational struggle" / Arun Kundnani --
From Jyllands-Posten to Charlie Hebdo : domesticating the Mohammed cartoons / Carolina Sanchez Boe --
#JeSuisCharlie, #JeNeSuisPasCharlie and ad hoc publics / Simon Dawes --
Mediated narratives as competing histories of the present / Annabelle Sreberny --
Media power and the framing of the Charlie Hebdo attacks / Des Freedman --
We hate to quote Stanley Fish, but : "there is no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too." Or is it? / Bill Grantham and Toby Miller --
Jouissance and submission : "free speech", colonial diagnostics and psychoanalytic responses to Charlie Hebdo / Anne Mulhall --
Not afraid / Ghassan Hage --
"Je suis Juif" : Charlie Hebdo and the remaking of antisemitism / Alana Lentin --
Race, caste and gender in France / Christine Delphy --
Ideology of the Holy Republic as part of the colonial counter-revolution / Selim Nadi.