Emotions as governing mechanisms: The politics of hate and the Muslim body

Abstract

On Thursday, October 24, 2019, French president Emmanuel Macron told reporters, “wearing the headscarf in public spaces is not my business; however, in public services, at school, and while educating chil dren, the headscarf issue is my business. That is what laicism is about”, and he added, “in some neighborhoods in France, some people use the headscarf as a symbol to break one’s connection with the republic; this is called sectarianism.”1 Macron’s statement came after the controversy involving a Muslim mother accompanying her son on a school trip to a regional parliament in Eastern France…