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      • WEEK 1 - FRENCH EXCEPTIONALISM


      • WEEK 2 - Immigration and the debate on citizenship in contemporary France

        • This class will explore the question of immigration and its links to the wider issues of French national identity and republicanism. We will examine the changes in migratory flux that occurred in the post-WWII period and the effects that these changes had on the question of immigration and, consequently, on the question of identity.  

        • Required reading:  

        • Jennings, Jeremy (2000), ‘Citizenship, republicanism and multiculturalism in contemporary France’, in British Journal of Political Science, 30, pp.575-598 File
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        • Hargreaves, Alec (2007), ‘Overview’, in Multi-Ethnic France : Immigration, Politics, Culture and Society, New York & London: Routledge, pp.8-39 File
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        • Further reading :  

            

          • Hayward, Jack (2007), Fragmented France: two centuries of disputed identity, Oxford : Oxford University Press  

          • Begag Azouz (2007), Ethnicity and Equality : France in the Balance, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press  

          • Raymond, Gino and Modood, Tariq, (eds.) (2007), The Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 

          • Modood, Tariq, Anna Triandafyllidou and Ricard Zapata-Barrero (2006), Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach, London & New York: Routledge  

          • Guénif-Souilamas, Nacira, (ed.) (2006), La République Mise à Nu par son Immigration, Paris: Fabrique éditions   

          • Weil, Patrick (2005), La République et sa diversité: Immigration, intégration et discrimination, Paris: Seuil  

          • Silverstein, Paul (2004), Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation, Bloomington: Indiana Universtiy Press 

          • Weil, Patrick (2002), Qu’est-ce qu’un Français? Histoire de la Nationalité Française depuis la Révolution, Paris: Grasset   

          • Noiriel, Gérard (1996), The French Melting Pot : Immigration, Citizenship and National Identity, Minneapolis & London: Minnesota University Press 

          • Silverman, Maxim (1992), Deconstructing the Nation: Immigration, Racism and Citizenship in modern France, London : Routledge 

          • Thomas, Elaine (2011), Immigration, Islam and the Politics of Belonging in France: A comparative framework, University of Pennsylvania Press 


        • WEEK 2 lecture File
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      • WEEK 3 - Islam and Islamophobia in France

      • WEEK 4 - Afro-Frenchness in contemporary France

      • WEEK 5 - A revolt against the Republic ? The urban riots of Autumn 2005

        • Building on the previous sessions, this class will focus on the uprising that engulfed France’s banlieues in late 2005. 

        • Required reading :  

        • Jobard, Fabien (2009), ‘Rioting as a Political Tool: the 2005 Riots in France’, in The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 48, pp.235-244, doi:10.1111/j.1468-2311.2009.00564.x

        • Dikec, Mustafa (2007), ‘Voices into noises : Revolts as unarticulated justice movements’, in Badlands of the Republic, Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, pp. 152-169 File
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        • Further reading :  

           

          • Kokoreff, Michel and Mathew Moran (2010), ‘Republic of Lies: Exploring the French Riots of 2005 and 2007’, in Averis, Kate and Mathew Moran, Le Mensonge: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in French Studies, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.35-51 

          • Kokoreff, Michel (2008), Sociologie des émeutes, Paris: Payot 

          • Beaud, Stéphane, Joseph Confavreux and Jade Lindgaard (2006), La France Invisible, Paris : La Découverte 

          • Marlière, Eric (2008), La France nous a lâchés: Le sentiment d’injustice chez les jeunes des cités, Paris: Fayard  

          • Mucchielli, Laurent, and Véronique Le Goaziou, Quand les banlieues brulent: retour sur les émeutes de novembre 2005, Paris : La Découverte  

          • Belaïd, Chakri, Clémentine Autain, Stéphane Beaud, Paul Chemetov (eds.), Banlieue, lendemains de révolte, Paris: La Dispute 

          • Marlière, Eric (2005), Jeunes en cité: Diversité des trajectoires ou destin commun ?, Paris: L’Harmattan 

          • Derderian, Richard (2004), North Africans in France: Becoming Visible, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 

          • Walsh, Jonathan (2015), Ten years after riots, French suburb struggles to move on, France 24, 07/06/2015


        • Isabelle & Isla Presentation File
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        • Emily & Lilly Presentation File
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        • WEEK 5 Lecture File
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        • Presentation Fry Harrison File
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      • WEEK 6 - Gender equality and the debate on parité

        • The French political landscape is historically male dominated. This class will explore recent efforts to increase the level of female representation in politics. Particular attention will be given to the campaign and debate on ‘parité’. 

        • Required reading :  

        • Bereni, Laure (2007), ‘French Feminists Renegotiate Republican Universalism: The Gender Parity Campaign’, French Politics, Vol.5, pp.191-209 File
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        • Sineau, Mariette (2003), ‘Parité in politics: From a radical idea to consensual reform’, in Célestin, R., E. DalMolin and I. de Courtivron, Beyond French Feminism: Debates on Women, Politics and Culture in France, 1981-2001, London: Palgrave, pp.113-126 File
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        • Further reading:  

           

          • Opello, Katherine (2006), Gender Quotas, Parity Reform and Political Parties in France, Boulder and New York: Lexington 

          • Ramsey, Raylene (2003), French Women in Politics: Writing Power, Paternal Legitimization and Maternal Legacies, New York and Oxford: Berghahn 

          • Allwood, Gill and Khursheed Wadia (2000), Women and Politics in France, 1958-2000, London: Routledge 

          • Allwood, Gill, ‘Popular conceptions of gender and the parity debate’ in Marks, John and Enda McCaffrey (eds.), French Cultural Debates, Newark: University of Delaware Press, pp.8-21  

          • Duchen, Claire (1986), Feminism in France from May 68 to Mitterrand, London: Routledge 

          • Perry, Sheila and Sue Hart (2000), ‘Parity in French Politics’, in Twomey, Lesley (ed.), Women in Contemporary Culture: Roles and Identities in France and Spain, Bristol: Intellect 

          • Gaspard, Françoise (1994), ‘De la parité: genèse d’un concept, naissance d’un mouvement’, Nouvelles questions féministes, 15(4), pp.29-44 

          • Gaspard, Françoise, Claude Servan-Schreiber and Anne Le Gall (1992), Au pouvoir citoyennes! Liberté, Egalité, Parité, Paris : Seuil 

          • Lépinard, Eléonore (2007), ‘The contentious subject of feminism : defining « women » in France from the Second Wave to Parity’, in Signs, 32(2), pp.375-403 

          • Haase-Dubosc, Danielle (1999), ‘Sexual Difference and Politics in France Today’, in Feminist Studies, 25(1), p183-210  

          • Wallach Scott, Joan (2005), Parité : Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

          • Lévêque, Sandrine (2018), 'Parity and quotas in politics', in Politika [accessed 1 November 2021]. 


        • Jasmine & Hugo Presentation File
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        • Sofie & Abbie Presentation File
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        • Week 6 Slides File
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        • Presentation Bowers Cooper File
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        • Presentation Hughes Johnson File
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      • WEEK 7 - ‘Sexual minorities’ and the Republic: From the PaCS to the ‘marriage for all’

        • This class will explore the issue of LGBT rights in France. Particular attention will be given to the debate surrounding the PaCS (Pacte Civil de Solidarité) and more recently the ‘mariage pour tous’.  

        • Required reading : 

        • Fassin, Eric (2001), ‘Same sex, different politics: “Gay marriage”” debates in France and the United States’, in Public Culture, 13(2), pp.215-232, https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-215 File
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        • Baruch, Marc-Olivier (2013), ‘Gay marriage and the limits of French liberalism’, in Dissent, Fall

        • Further reading:  

           

          • McCaffrey, Enda (2005), The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France, Burlington: Ashgate 

          • Martel, Frédéric (2008), Le Rose et le Noir: les Homosexuels en France Depuis 1968, Paris : Points 

          • Pratt, Murray (1998), ‘The defence of the straight state: heteronormativity, AIDS in France, and the space of the nation’, in French Cultural Studies, 9, pp.263-280 

          • McCaffrey, Enda (2001), ‘The PaCS debate and the implications for universal equality in France’, in French Cultural Debates, Newark: University of Delaware Press 

          • Sibalis, Michael (2005), ‘Gay liberation comes to France: The Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire (FHAR)’, in French History and Civilization, 1(1), pp.265-276  

          • Jackson, Julian (2009), Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics and Morality in France from the Liberation to AIDS, Chicago:  Chicago University Press 


        • Week 7 PaCS File
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        • Alexandra & Henry - Presentation File
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        • Alex & Cara Presentation File
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        • Presentation Samuelson Sheperd Phillips File
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      • WEEK 8 - The return of the social question?

        • This class will discuss the contemporary relevance of the ‘social question’. Particular attention will be given to ‘post-industrialisation’, to claims that the struggle between capital and labour have given way to new forms of social conflict and to the notion that an underclass of the excluded has emerged in modern France. To illustrate our discussion we will focus on the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ protests.   

        • Required reading (read at least two of the following):  

        • Badiou, Alain (2019), ‘Lessons from the « Yellow Vests » movement’, in African Yearbook of Rhetoric, 9, pp.14-19 File
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        • Galí, Marta Camell, Matteo Polleri, Federico Puletti, Christina Aislinn Chalmers (2020), ‘The Gilets Jaunes: From Declassing to Counter-power’, in South Atlantic Quarterly, doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8663771, pp.866-876 File
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        • Lem, Winnie (2020), ‘Notes on militant populism in contemporary France : contextualizing the gilets jaunes’, in Dialectical Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-020-09595-1  

        • Further reading :  

           

          • Borrel, Monique (1996), Conflits du Travail, changement social et politique en France depuis 1950, Paris: L’Harmattan 

          • Bensaïd, Daniel (1996), ‘Neo-liberal reform and popular rebellion’, in New Left Review, 215, January-February, pp.109-116 

          • Aguiton, Christophe and Daniel Bensaïd (1997), Le Retour de la Question Sociale: Renouveau des Mouvements Sociaux en France 

          • Gorz, André (1982), Farewell to the working class, London: 

          • Gallie, Duncan (1978), In Search of the New Working Class: Automation and Social Integration within the Capitalist Enterprise, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 

          • Touraine, Alain (1966), La conscience ouvrière, Paris : Seuil 

          • Touraine, Alain (1973), Production de la société, Paris : Seuil 

          • Touraine, Alain, Michel Wierviorka and Michel Dubet (1984), Le Mouvement Ouvrier, Paris : Fayard 

          • Donzelot, Jacques (1990), L’invention du social, Paris : Fayard 

          • Murard, Numa (1996), La protection sociale, Paris : La Découverte 

          • Beaud, Stéphane and Michel Pialoux (1999), Retour sur la Condition Ouvrière, Paris : La Découverte 

          • Castel, Robert (1999), Les Métamorphoses de la Question Sociale, Paris : Gallimard 

          • Alain Bihr and Roland Pfefferkorn, Déchiffrer les inégalités (Paris, 1999) 

          • Rosanvallon, Pierre (2000), The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State, Princeton University Press 

          • Confavreux, Joseph (dir.) (2019), Le fond de l’air est jaune : Comprendre une révolte, Paris : Seuil 

          • Bourmeau, Sylvain (dir.) (2019), « Gilets jaunes » : hypothèses sur un mouvement, Paris : La Découverte 

          • Jeanpierre, Laurent (2019), In Girum : Les leçons politiques des ronds-points, Paris : La Découverte 

          • Collectif (2019), « Gilets jaunes » : Hypothèses sur un mouvement, Paris : La Découverte 


        • Tutorial powerpoint File
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        • Presentation Week 9 File
          2.7MB
        • Week 8 - Social question File
          11.9MB
        • Chloe & Lara Belle Presentation File
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        • Julia & Chisom Presentation File
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        • Presentation Parkoo Russell File
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      • WEEK 9 - Globalisation and the revival of French exceptionalism?

      • WEEK 10 - Paris ou le désert français : Anti-urban sentiments in contemporary France

      • WEEK 11 - Towards a new republican model ?

        • To conclude we will go over the various issues addressed over the course of the semester.  

        • Suggested reading:  

           

          • Perreau, Bruno (2006), 50 ans de vie politique française: le débat sur la fin de la Ve République, Paris : Librio 

          • Dahan, Vidal (2006), Le désordre établi ou la politique francçaise de 2002 à 2006, Paris : L’Harmattan 

          • Alistair Cole, Patrick Le Galès and Jonah Levy (eds), Developments in French politics 3, London: Palgrave 

          • Milner, Susan and Nick Parsons (2003), Reinventing France: State and Society in the Twenty-first Century, London: Palgrave 

          • Safran, William (2003), The French polity, London: Longman 

          • Bell, David S. (2002), French politics today, Manchester: MUP