Podcast appearances and mentions of jonathan ervine

Thinking through serious questions about racial, ethnic, and religious difference, Jonathan Ervine's Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions (Liverpool University Press, 2019) traces the ways that comedy pulls communities apart and brings them together in the French context. Ervine began the research for this project in advance of the fatal Charlie Hebdo shootings of 2015. The book he published four years later starts with an analysis of the intense debates about humour and freedom of the press that proliferated in the wake of these violent and tragic events. Situating Charlie Hebdo within the context of French humour more broadly, and turning to stand-up/sketch comedy in particular, Ervine's remaining three case studies approach issues of universalism, cultural and political conflict using a range of examples. Focused on the provocations of the Black comedian Dieudonné, the Jamel Comedy Club, and the television series A part ça tout vie bien, the book examines: antiracism and antisemitism, minority comedians, urban culture, the legacies of immigration, and the complex relationship between Islam and comedy in contemporary France. Considering the possibilities and politics of multiculturalism in and through comedy, the book is a vital source for readers interested in what does and doesn't make different French people laugh, and why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Thinking through serious questions about racial, ethnic, and religious difference, Jonathan Ervine's Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions (Liverpool University Press, 2019) traces the ways that comedy pulls communities apart and brings them together in the French context. Ervine began the research for this project in advance of the fatal Charlie Hebdo shootings of 2015. The book he published four years later starts with an analysis of the intense debates about humour and freedom of the press that proliferated in the wake of these violent and tragic events. Situating Charlie Hebdo within the context of French humour more broadly, and turning to stand-up/sketch comedy in particular, Ervine's remaining three case studies approach issues of universalism, cultural and political conflict using a range of examples. Focused on the provocations of the Black comedian Dieudonné, the Jamel Comedy Club, and the television series A part ça tout vie bien, the book examines: antiracism and antisemitism, minority comedians, urban culture, the legacies of immigration, and the complex relationship between Islam and comedy in contemporary France. Considering the possibilities and politics of multiculturalism in and through comedy, the book is a vital source for readers interested in what does and doesn't make different French people laugh, and why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Thinking through serious questions about racial, ethnic, and religious difference, Jonathan Ervine's Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions (Liverpool University Press, 2019) traces the ways that comedy pulls communities apart and brings them together in the French context. Ervine began the research for this project in advance of the fatal Charlie Hebdo shootings of 2015. The book he published four years later starts with an analysis of the intense debates about humour and freedom of the press that proliferated in the wake of these violent and tragic events. Situating Charlie Hebdo within the context of French humour more broadly, and turning to stand-up/sketch comedy in particular, Ervine's remaining three case studies approach issues of universalism, cultural and political conflict using a range of examples. Focused on the provocations of the Black comedian Dieudonné, the Jamel Comedy Club, and the television series A part ça tout vie bien, the book examines: antiracism and antisemitism, minority comedians, urban culture, the legacies of immigration, and the complex relationship between Islam and comedy in contemporary France. Considering the possibilities and politics of multiculturalism in and through comedy, the book is a vital source for readers interested in what does and doesn't make different French people laugh, and why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

Thinking through serious questions about racial, ethnic, and religious difference, Jonathan Ervine's Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions (Liverpool University Press, 2019) traces the ways that comedy pulls communities apart and brings them together in the French context. Ervine began the research for this project in advance of the fatal Charlie Hebdo shootings of 2015. The book he published four years later starts with an analysis of the intense debates about humour and freedom of the press that proliferated in the wake of these violent and tragic events. Situating Charlie Hebdo within the context of French humour more broadly, and turning to stand-up/sketch comedy in particular, Ervine's remaining three case studies approach issues of universalism, cultural and political conflict using a range of examples. Focused on the provocations of the Black comedian Dieudonné, the Jamel Comedy Club, and the television series A part ça tout vie bien, the book examines: antiracism and antisemitism, minority comedians, urban culture, the legacies of immigration, and the complex relationship between Islam and comedy in contemporary France. Considering the possibilities and politics of multiculturalism in and through comedy, the book is a vital source for readers interested in what does and doesn't make different French people laugh, and why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/french-studies

Thinking through serious questions about racial, ethnic, and religious difference, Jonathan Ervine's Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions (Liverpool University Press, 2019) traces the ways that comedy pulls communities apart and brings them together in the French context. Ervine began the research for this project in advance of the fatal Charlie Hebdo shootings of 2015. The book he published four years later starts with an analysis of the intense debates about humour and freedom of the press that proliferated in the wake of these violent and tragic events. Situating Charlie Hebdo within the context of French humour more broadly, and turning to stand-up/sketch comedy in particular, Ervine's remaining three case studies approach issues of universalism, cultural and political conflict using a range of examples. Focused on the provocations of the Black comedian Dieudonné, the Jamel Comedy Club, and the television series A part ça tout vie bien, the book examines: antiracism and antisemitism, minority comedians, urban culture, the legacies of immigration, and the complex relationship between Islam and comedy in contemporary France. Considering the possibilities and politics of multiculturalism in and through comedy, the book is a vital source for readers interested in what does and doesn't make different French people laugh, and why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

As the trial for the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris enters its sixth week, does the slogan “Je Suis Charlie” or “I am Charlie” still resonate today?In January 2015, after two brothers forced their way into the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, Paris was under siege as police launched a manhunt for the gunmen. Two days later, another attack occurred at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris, where several people were held as hostages. Related: France combats extremism with secularism — and a hotline In the days after both attacks, over 1.5 million people took to the streets of Paris in a demonstration of unity against terror, with many wearing headbands and waving banners with the words “Je Suis Charlie." The slogan became a symbol of solidarity with the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a statement of unity among French citizens. But Yasser Louati, who was teaching English in Paris at the time, says that sense of togetherness didn’t last long. He says January 2015 represented a turning point in terms of how Muslims were treated in France.“I mean, there was a before and an after January 2015. Unfortunately, after January 2015, Islamophobia exploded in France."Yasser Louati, human rights activist, Justice and Liberties For All Committee, Paris, France “I mean, there was a before and an after January 2015. Unfortunately, after January 2015, Islamophobia exploded in France,” Louati said.In the days after the shootings, it emerged that the perpetrators of the attacks, the Kouachi brothers, were born, raised and radicalized in France. Yasser Louati is a human rights activist with Justice and Liberty for All Committee.  Credit: Courtesy of Yasser Louati Louati, now a human rights activist with a group called the Justice and Liberties For All Committee, vividly remembers the terror of January 2015. One of Louati’s students got a phone call during class about the supermarket attack. Louati’s 6-year-old son was attending school two blocks from the store, so he rushed to the area on his motorcycle but police stopped him a mile away from the scene. Louati says he vividly remembers that long walk. “Try to imagine that mile of walking, just not knowing whether my son was hurt or if anything happened to his school. Because they spoke of an ongoing shooting in that area,” Louati said.All the children were ultimately moved to safety. Related: Three years after being attacked, Charlie Hebdo questions their survival Ten months later, on Nov. 13, 2015, Islamist terrorists struck again — this time, in a series of coordinated attacks across Paris, killing 130 people. President François Hollande announced a nationwide state of emergency. The new laws granted police exceptional search-and-arrest powers but Louati says the main target was the Muslim community. Louati believes that while many in Paris have focused on the role that religion played in driving the gunmen to carry out such abhorrent acts, few questioned if their upbringing in Paris may have also played a part. Many families, he says, were raided by the police because of calls from their neighbors — who understood little about their religion.“For example, if the wife wears the hijab, if the husband wears a beard. If there is a  mere suspicion that you are a Muslim ‘radical,’ then you lose all of your basic fundamental freedoms.”Related: Lallab aims to give Muslim women in France a voiceFrench legal scholar Rim-Sarah Alouane says the Charlie Hebdo attack allowed those who were already suspicious of Islam to openly display their bigotry. The emergency laws were extended every six months, and eventually, Alouane says they were effectively adopted into common law. Anti-Muslim rhetoric — once seen as the preserve of far-right politicians like Marine Le Pen — was being spouted by centrist politicians and journalists on national TV, says Philippe Marlière, a professor of French and European politics at University College London. “Je Suis Charlie” appeared no longer to be about unity, but about conforming to a vague idea of French identity that left little room for religious diversity.Related: Burkini ban in France is suspended after court ruling“Whatever your background, ethnicity, religion, you needed more and more to conform to a kind of elusive French identity, which, when you read between the lines, is the sort of ‘standard’ French person: White, Catholic or atheist, but certainly there's not much room for Muslims in there."Philippe Marlière, professor of French and European politics, University Collge London“Whatever your background, ethnicity, religion, you needed more and more to conform to a kind of elusive French identity, which, when you read between the lines, is the sort of ‘standard’ French person: White, Catholic or atheist, but certainly there's not much room for Muslims in there,” Marlière said.The drift of Macron’s party La République En Marche further right appears to be compounded by the French president’s recent announcement of a proposed new law to tackle radical Islam, or “Islamist separatism,” as he calls it. The legislation aims to curtail foreign funding of mosques and requires that imams are trained and certified in France. Many Muslims believe they are once again being unfairly targeted. But a recent survey in France shows 75% of respondents approved of the new bill. French author Alexandre Del Valle is among those supporting the president’s plans.“Mr. Macron is very courageous against the Muslim Brotherhood, against radical separatism. It's suicide if we accept radical Islam. Allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to control mosques and Muslim associations, it's like if you accept Nazis to take control of schools,” he told The World.  A mural depicts several of the Charlie Hebdo journalists who lost their lives in the attacks on their offices in Paris in January 2015. Photo taken in 2017 on Rue Nicolas-Appert, near the former office.  Credit: Courtesy of Jonathan Ervine  Del Valle doesn’t buy the Charlie Hebdo magazine or particularly like its coverage. Nor did he approve of the newspaper’s recent decision to reprint the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which provoked the 2015 attack. But Del Valle does believe Charlie Hebdo should have the right to publish what it wants. Freedom of speech is an “essential freedom” in France, he said.Professor Marlière says the tone of the magazine changed over the years from a liberal satirical newspaper to one that seems to repeatedly target Muslims. Louati, who is Muslim, says reprinting the cartoon was deeply offensive. “If Charlie Hebdo is truly about freedom of speech, well, how about Charlie Hebdo makes fun of the journalists who got killed in the newsroom? That would be extremely unacceptable. But it wouldn't be more immoral than making fun of the poor Kurdish boy who was found dead on a beach because his parents were trying to flee war-torn Syria for a better life,” Louati said.The magazine printed a mocking cartoon of Alan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy whose body was found washed up on a Turkish beach in 2015 after the dingy his family used to try and reach Greece capsized.The freedom of speech debate in France after the Charlie Hebdo attack extends beyond newspapers and magazines. After January 2015, French comedians found themselves questioning which subjects were fair game for their jokes. Jonathan Ervine, senior lecturer in French at Bangor University and author of “Humour in Contemporary France,” says several comedy programs were dropped from TV schedules in the immediate aftermath of the attack. Famous French comedian Stéphane Guillon has spoken about his fear of the consequences of mocking the Prophet Muhammad, Ervine says.“If you can die due to a drawing, you can die due to a sketch,” Guillon said in 2016.Related: In Québec, teachers return to school under new religious symbols ban Portait of Rim-Sarah Alouane, a French legal scholar.  Credit: Courtesy of Rim-Sarah Alouane Muslim comedians, too, are questioning what they can and cannot say, but Ervine says he has spoken with Mustapha El Atrassi and Sophia Aram, both of French Morrocan descent, who believe that tackling sensitive subjects with humor is more necessary now than ever. For five weeks, the trial of 14 people accused of being accomplices to the Charlie Hebdo attack, has heard harrowing testimony from survivors. It’s a reminder of the sense of terror that prevailed in Paris in the months after the assault. French scholar Alouane said 2015 and 2016 were “heavy years in France.” But after a couple of years, people grew tired of hearing the word terrorism everywhere and no longer wanted to live in fear, she says. Today, Alouane says, they just want to get on with living. “Now, we think ‘carpe diem, seize the day.’”

Hello and welcome to the twenty-second episode of the Football Media Podcast on the Team of John O'Sheas platform. I'm Jon Mackenzie and, across the course of the new season, I'm going to be bringing you a weekly podcast that seeks to open up the often-murky underworld of the football media. This week, I'm speaking to Dr Jonathan Ervine – senior lecturer in French at Bangor University. In the course of our conversation, we discuss French football, its media, the role that football plays in French identity, French club's trepidation into esports and the future of the football media. If you enjoy this podcast, please share it with your friends, subscribe, rate and review on iTunes in order to help us gain exposure and, if you are a social media person, follow us on Twitter @FootyMediaPod. We’ll be back next week with another interesting guest from the world of the football media. Before that, though, it’s Jonathan Ervine, Academia, French football and Esports. Enjoy!

Hello and welcome to the twenty-first episode of the Football Media Podcast on the Team of John O'Sheas platform. I'm Jon Mackenzie and, across the course of the new season, I'm going to be bringing you a weekly podcast that seeks to open up the often-murky underworld of the football media. This week, I'm speaking to Chris Sweeney – feature writer at a number of newspaper and magazines, and author of Mad Dog Gravesen: The Last of the Footballing Mavericks In the course of our conversation, we discuss the book itself, the experience of writing a monograph-length work, and the practicalities of publishing. If you enjoy this podcast, please share it with your friends, subscribe, rate and review on iTunes in order to help us gain exposure and, if you are a social media person, follow us on Twitter @FootyMediaPod. Next week, we’ll be talking to Jonathan Ervine, senior lecturer in French at Bangor University. Before that, though, it’s Harry Robinson, VAVEL and the art of podcasting. Enjoy!

Jonathan Ervine – is the creator of Dad’s the way I like it – a website on what it means to be a dad and how dads are represented in the society. He resides in North West Wales with his wife, son and pet chicken. He is also a lecturer of French at Bangor University. He can […]

Nid jyst Neville Powell sydd yn rheoli tîm ym Mangor. Tro yma, mae Jonathan Ervine yn siarad efo rheolwr ail dim Dinas Bangor, Haydn Jones. Am fwy o wybodaeth am y podlediad, edrychwch ar mwydroymmangor.wordpress.com. Cofiwch eich bod chi’n medru tanysgrifio i’r podlediad drwy iTunes.

Tro yma, mae Jonathan Ervine yn trafod stadium newydd Dinas Bangor yn Nantporth efo Richard Williams a Pete Jones. Hefyd, mae'r bennod hon yn cynnwys adroddiad am Dorothy a Florence, yr ieir sydd yn rhagweld canlyniadau'r gemau mawr. Cofiwch tanysgrifio i'r podlediad trwy iTunes.

Mae yna lawer o bobl sydd wedi sgorio goliau yn Ffordd Farrar dros y flyneddoed. Rhywun sydd wedi sgorio llawer o weithiau efo Bangor, ac yn erbyn Bangor hefyd, yw Marc Lloyd Williams. Ym mhennod yma, mae Jonathan Ervine yn cyfweld 'Jiws' am Ddinas Bangor, sgorio goliau a safon yr Uwch Gynghrair Cymru. Am fwy o wybodaeth, ewch i mwydroymmangor.wordpress.com neu y dudalen Facebook Mwydro ym Mangor.

Ym mhennod yma, mae Jonathan Ervine yn trafod dilyn Dinas Bangor o bell efo Carwyn Edwards. O ardal Bodedern yn wreiddiol, mae Carwyn yn byw yn Arizona ac yn gwrando i'r sylwebaeth cefnogwyr Radio Bangor (ar gael ar www.bangorcitizens.com). Hefyd, mae Jonathan yn son am ei atgofion o Gary Speed.

Tro yma, mae Glynne Roberts yn son am lyfyr mae o'n ysgrifennu am hanes Dinas Bangor yn Ffordd Farrar. Hefyd, mae Cwpan y Byd Rygbi wedi rhoi syniad i Jonathan Ervine am sut i wella pêl-droed yng Nghymru. Am fwy o wybodaeth, edrychwch ar dudalen Facebook 'Mwydro ym Mangor' neu y blog mwydroymmangor.wordpress.com.

Ar faes yr Eisteddfod yn Wrecsam mae Jonathan Ervine yn trafod pêl-droed yng Nghymru efo Spencer Harris (Ymddiredolaeth Cefnogwyr Wrecsam), Ian Gwyn Hughes (Cymdeithas Pêl-droed Cymru) a Gary Speed, hyfforddwr y Tîm Cenedlaethol. Am fyw o wybodaeth, ewch i dudalen Facebook 'Mwydro ym Mangor' neu mwydroymmangor.wordpress.com.