African Political Activism In Postcolonial France

Author : Gillian Glaes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351698627

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African Political Activism in Postcolonial France by Gillian Glaes Pdf

African Political Activism in Postcolonial France engages with several areas of scholarly inquiry, ranging from the study of immigrants to the investigation of surveillance and the legacy of colonialism. Within migration studies, many important analyses have focused on integration, yielding critical contributions to our understanding of immigration and identity. This work moves in a different direction. Factoring in the dynamics of colonialism, decolonization, and their effect on immigrant political activism and state policy in the postcolonial, Cold War era reveals that immigrants from francophone Sub-Saharan Africa were key players who shaped the development of public policy toward immigrants. Through this approach, we can understand how republicanism, colonial ideology, immigration policy, and immigrant political activism intersected in the post-colonial era, shaping the reception of African workers and affecting their lives and experiences in France.

Author : Rabah Aissaoui
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857713469

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Immigration and National Identity by Rabah Aissaoui Pdf

Immigration is at the heart of social, cultural and political debate in France, a country still struggling to come to terms with its postcolonial legacy. Here Assaoui provides a radical re-examination of the assumptions about immigrants and ethnic and national identity through a study of the Maghrebis, especially their political mobilisation from the colonial to the postcolonial period. Combining insights from the archive and interviews with political activists, he examines the diaspora's voice and their struggle against racism and oppression.Through a study of key political movements, he shows how they constructed a powerful and consistent political tradition and charts the development, in France, of the Algerian anti-colonial and nationalist movement, as well as new forms of political activism during the 1970s. "Immigration and National Identity" foregrounds the migrants' perspective and the necessary historical background to the fraught contemporary context of immigrant communities in France. It will be valuable for all those concerned with immigration, colonialism and postcolonialism, cultural studies, sociology and the study of contemporary France.

Author : Félix F. Germain
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628952636

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Decolonizing the Republic by Félix F. Germain Pdf

Decolonizing the Republic is a conscientious discussion of the African diaspora in Paris in the post–World War II period. This book is the first to examine the intersection of black activism and the migration of Caribbeans and Africans to Paris during this era and, as Patrick Manning notes in the foreword, successfully shows how “black Parisians—in their daily labors, weekend celebrations, and periodic protests—opened the way to ‘decolonizing the Republic,’ advancing the respect for their rights as citizens.” Contrasted to earlier works focusing on the black intellectual elite, Decolonizing the Republic maps the formation of a working-class black France. Readers will better comprehend how those peoples of African descent who settled in France and fought to improve their socioeconomic conditions changed the French perception of Caribbean and African identity, laying the foundation for contemporary black activists to deploy a new politics of social inclusion across the demographics of race, class, gender, and nationality. This book complicates conventional understandings of decolonization, and in doing so opens a new and much-needed chapter in the history of the black Atlantic.

Author : Dominic Richard David Thomas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253006691

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Africa and France by Dominic Richard David Thomas Pdf

This stimulating and insightful book reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theatre, literature, and even museum construction. Dominic Thomas's analysis unravels the complex cultural and political realities of long-standing mobility between Africa and Europe. Thomas questions the attempt to place strict limits on what it means to be French or European and offers a sense of what must happen to bring about a renewed sense of integration and global Frenchness.

Author : Victor T. Le Vine
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1588262499

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Politics in Francophone Africa by Victor T. Le Vine Pdf

Explores the elements that have shaped the particular political dynamics of the 14 former French colonies in west and equatorial Africa while allowing them to remain part of a unique francophone sociopolitical community.

Author : Alec G. Hargreaves,Mark McKinney
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 0415144876

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Post-colonial Cultures in France by Alec G. Hargreaves,Mark McKinney Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kathryn Kleppinger,Laura Reeck
Publisher : Francophone Postcolonial Studi
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786941138

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Post-migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France by Kathryn Kleppinger,Laura Reeck Pdf

Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France offers a critical assessment of the ways in which French writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists descended from immigrants from former colonial territories bring their specificity to bear on the bounds and applicability of French republicanism, Frenchness and national identity, and contemporary cultural production in France. In mobilizing a range of approaches and methodologies pertinent to their specialist fields of inquiry, contributors to this volume share in the common objective of elucidating the cultural productions of what we are calling post-migratory (second- and third-generation) postcolonial minorities. The volume provides a lens through which to query the dimensions of postcoloniality and transnationalism in relation to post-migratory postcolonial minorities in France and identifies points of convergence and conversation among them in the range of their cultural production. The cultural practitioners considered query traditional French high culture and its pathways and institutions; some emerge as autodidacts, introducing new forms of authorship and activism; they inflect French cultural production with different 'accents', some experimental and even avant-garde in nature. As the volume contributors show, though post-migratory postcolonial minorities sometimes express dis-settlement, they also provide an incisive view of social identities in France today and their own compelling visions for the future.

Author : David Beriss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429981678

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Black Skins, French Voices by David Beriss Pdf

This book is about the choices black French citizens make when they move from Martinique and Guadeloupe to Paris and discover that they are not fully French. It shows how ethnic activists in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora organize to demand what has never been available to them in France.

Author : Sean Mills
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773583498

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The Empire Within by Sean Mills Pdf

In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonization to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and class and to imagine themselves as part of a broad transnational movement of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistance. The temporary unity forged around ideas of decolonization came undone in the 1970s, however, as many were forced to come to terms with the contradictions and ambiguities of applying ideas of decolonization in Quebec. From linguistic debates to labour unions, and from the political activities of citizens in the city's poorest neighbourhoods to its Caribbean intellectuals, The Empire Within is a political tour of Montreal that reconsiders the meaning and legacy of the city's dissident traditions. It is also a fascinating chapter in the history of postcolonial thought.

Author : Bruno Charbonneau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317133506

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France and the New Imperialism by Bruno Charbonneau Pdf

The role of French security policy and cooperation in Africa has long been recognized as a critically important factor in African politics and international relations. The newest form of security cooperation, a trend which merges security and development and which is actively promoted by other major Western powers, adds to our understanding of this broader trend in African relations with the industrialized North. This book investigates whether French involvement in Africa is really in the interest of Africans, or whether French intervention continues to deny African political freedom and to sustain their current social, economic and political conditions. It illustrates how policies portrayed as promoting stability and development can in fact be factors of instability and reproductive mechanisms of systems of dependency, domination and subordination. Providing complex ideas in a clear and pointed manner, France and the New Imperialism is a sophisticated understanding of critical security studies.

Author : Burleigh Hendrickson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501766244

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Decolonizing 1968 by Burleigh Hendrickson Pdf

Decolonizing 1968 explores how activists in 1968 transformed university campuses across Europe and North Africa into sites of contestation where students, administrators, and state officials collided over definitions of modernity and nationhood after empire. Burleigh Hendrickson details protesters' versions of events to counterbalance more visible narratives that emerged from state-controlled media centers and ultimately describes how the very education systems put in place to serve the French state during the colonial period ended up functioning as the crucible of postcolonial revolt. Hendrickson not only unearths complex connections among activists and their transnational networks across Tunis, Paris, and Dakar but also weaves together their overlapping stories and participation in France's May '68. Using global protest to demonstrate the enduring links between France and its former colonies, Decolonizing 1968 traces the historical relationships between colonialism and 1968 activism, examining transnational networks that emerged and new human and immigrants' rights initiatives that directly followed. As a result, Hendrickson reveals that 1968 is not merely a flashpoint in the history of left-wing protest but a key turning point in the history of decolonization. Thanks to generous funding from Penn State and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Author : Paul A. Silverstein
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745337759

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Postcolonial France by Paul A. Silverstein Pdf

Urban marginalisation, police violence and institutional discrimination in modern France

Author : Paul A. Silverstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Islam
ISBN : 178680297X

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POSTCOLONIAL FRANCE by Paul A. Silverstein Pdf

Author : Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231558907

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An Address in Paris by Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye Pdf

After West African migrants arrived in France in the 1960s, the authorities opened residences for them known as “foyers.” Initially intended to contain the West African population, these hostels for single men fostered the emergence of Black communities in the heart of Paris and other cities. More recently, however, a nationwide renovation program sought to replace the collective living arrangements of foyers with more individualized spaces by constructing new buildings or drastically reshaping existing ones—and casting the West African presence as a threat to French identity. Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West African migrants, weaving together rich ethnographic description with a critical historical account. She shows how migrants settled in foyers through kinship ties, making these buildings key parts of diasporic networks. Migrants also forged a sense of place in foyers, in an intricate relationship with bureaucratic requirements such as having an address. Mbodj-Pouye scrutinizes the physical and social evolution of foyers and the administrative dynamics that governed them. She argues that even though these buildings originated in state attempts to manage migrants along racial lines, the shared way of life that they encouraged helped spark a sense of political agency and belonging whose significance extends far beyond their walls. Combining close attention to the social and cultural meanings of the foyers and keenly observed portraits of Black experiences in France across decades, An Address in Paris offers a new lens on the global African diaspora.

Author : Melissa K. Byrnes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803290730

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Making Space by Melissa K. Byrnes Pdf

Melissa Byrnes explores the ways local communities in the French suburbs reacted to the growing presence of North African migrants in the decades after World War II and the decolonization of Algeria.