Europeanising spaces in Paris, c. 1947-1962 / Hugh McDonnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonnell, Hugh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paris (France)--History--1944-.

Paris (France).

France--Paris.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool Univ Press, 2016.

Summary:

In the wake of the Second World War, ideas of Europe abounded. What did Europe mean as a concept, and what did it mean to be European? Europeanising Spaces in Paris, c. 1947-1962 makes the case that Paris was both a leading and distinctive forum for the expression of such ideas in the postwar' period. It examines spaces in the French capital in which ideas about Europe were formulated, articulated, exchanged, circulated, and contested, roughly between the escalation of the Cold War and the end of France's war of decolonisation in Algeria. Such processes of making sense of Europe are elucidated in urban, political, and cultural spaces in the French capital. Specifically, the Parisian café, home, and street are each examined in terms of how they were implicated in ideas about Europe. Then, the Paris-based Mouvement socialiste des états-unis d'Europe (the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe) and the far-right wing Fédération des étudiants nationalistes (the Federation of Nationalist Students) are examined as examples of political movements that mobilised around - very different - concepts of Europe. The final section on cultural Europeanising spaces draws attention to the specificities of the Europeanism of exiles from Franco's Spain in Paris; the work of the great scholar of the Arab world, Jacques Berque, in the context of his understanding of the Mediterranean world and his understanding of faith; and, finally, the work of the legendary photographer Henri Carrier-Bresson by looking at the capacities and limitations of the photographic medium for the representation of Europe, and how these corresponded with Cartier-Bresson's political, social, and aesthetic commitments. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section 1 Paris as a Europeanising Space

Chapter 1 The Paris Café as a Europeanising Space 16

Chapter 2 The Parisian Home as a Europeanising Space 37

Chapter 3 The Paris Street as a Europeanising Space 76

Section 2 Political Europeanising Spaces in Paris

Chapter 4 Europeanising Spaces and the Mouvement socialists des états-unis d'Europe, c.1947-1954 104

Chapter 5 Europeanising Spaces and the Fédération des étudiants nationalistes, 1960-1963 137

Section 3 Cultural Europeanising Spaces in Paris

Chapter 6 Cultural Europeanising Spaces of Spanish Exiles in Paris 162

Chapter 7 Europeanising Spaces in the Work of Jacques Berque 183

Chapter 8 Europeanising Spaces in the Work of Henri Carrier-Bresson, 1948-1955 216.

ISBN:

1781383022

9781781383025

OCLC:

930829260