France since the 1970s : history, politics and memory in an age of uncertainty / edited by Emile Chabal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chabal, Emile, editor.

William E. Lingelbach Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Politics and government--1958-.

France.

Politics and government.

France--Politics and government--1974-1981.

France--Politics and government--1981-1995.

France--Politics and government--1995-2007.

Political science.

Physical Description:

xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

Summary:

Until the mir-20th century, France saw itself as a great power with universalist aspirations and global ambitions. But the Second World War and decolonisation irrevocably changed France's place in the world. Despite attempts to restore the country's 'grandeur' in the 1960s, the French have been forced to reconcile themselves to their modest place at the heart of a changing Europe. What impact has this had on political life? How have the French reimagined the revolutionary, republican and reactionary ideologies that have been so crucial to their history? How has the arrival of hundreds of thousands of postcolonial migrants transformed politics? These are just some of the questions at the heart of France since the 1970s. With contributions from leading specialists on topics as varied as the legacy of empire and neo-liberalism, it explores how the French have dealt with the pervasive sense of uncertainty that has become a defining feature of contemporary European politics. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: French politics in an age of uncertainty / Emile Chabal

Part I. French politics: beyond right and left?

The great upheaval: left and right in contemporary French politics / Pascal Perrineau

The Front National since the 1970s: electoral impact and party system change / Jim Shields

Class, class conflict and the left: the place of the people in French politics / Nick Hewlett

The melancholy of post-communism: François Furet and the "passions" / Christophe Prochasson

Part II. The politics of postcolonialism in contemporary France

The cost of decolonisation: compensating the Pieds-Noirs / Yann Scioldo-Zürcher

From militancy to history: Sans Frontière and immigrant memory at the dawn of the 1980s / Daniel A. Gordon

Algeria in Paris: 50 years on / Isabel Hollis

France's nostalgias for empire / Patricia M. E. Lorcin

Part III. Republicanism, liberalism and the changing contours of French intellectual life

Justifying capitalism in an age of uncertainty: l'Association Pour la Liberté Économique et le Progrès Social, 1969-1973 / Michael C. Behrent

France's anti-68 liberal revival / Iain Stewart

Republicanism and the critique of human rights / Camille Robcis

Cultural insecurity and political solidarity: French republicanism reconsidered / Sophie Guérard de Latour

France: the eternal crisis? / Sudhir Hazareesingh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.

ISBN:

1472509773

9781472509772

9781472506139

1472506138

OCLC:

861955325

Publisher Number:

99961109122