Colonial Legacy in France: Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid - Hardcover

 
9780253026255: Colonial Legacy in France: Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid
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ISBN 10: 0253026253 ISBN 13: 9780253026255
Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2017

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Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored revisionist decrees that have exacerbated tensions, complicated the process of establishing and recording national memory, and triggered divisive debates on what it means to identify as French. As they document the checkered legacy of French colonialism, the contributors raise questions about France and the contemporary role of Islam, the banlieues, immigration, race, history, pedagogy, and the future of the Republic. This innovative volume reconsiders the cultural, economic, political, and social realities facing global French citizens today and includes contributions by Achille Mbembe, Benjamin Stora, Françoise Vergès, Alec Hargreaves, Elsa Dorlin, and Alain Mabanckou, among others.

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edited by Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard, Dominic Thomas, translated by Alexis Pernsteiner

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The Colonial Legacy in France

Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid

By Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard, Dominic Thomas, Alexis Pernsteiner

Indiana University Press

Copyright © 2017 Indiana University Press
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ISBN: 978-0-253-02625-5

Contents

Note on Translation, xi, 
Introduction: A Decade of Postcolonial Crisis: Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid (2005–2015) / Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard, and Dominic Thomas, 1, 
Part I. Colonial Fracture / 2005, 
1.1. The Emergence of the Colonial, 
1. The Republican Origins of the Colonial Fracture / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard, 43, 
2. When a (War) Memory Hides Another (Colonial) Memory / Benjamin Stora, 53, 
3. A Difficult History: A Brief Historiography of the Colonial and Postcolonial Situation / Nicolas Bancel, 61, 
4. Reducing the Republic's Native to the Body / Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, 69, 
5. Colonization and Immigration: "Blind Spots" in the History Classroom / Sandrine Lemaire, 78, 
6. Memory Wars: A Study of the Intersection between History and Media / Pascal Blanchard and Isabelle Veyrat-Masson, 89, 
1.2. The Return of the Colonial, 
7. The Enemy Within: The Construction of the "Arab" in the Media / Thomas Deltombe and Mathieu Rigouste, 115, 
8. Islam and the Republic: A Long, Uneasy History / Anna Bozzo, 123, 
9. The Republic, Colonization, and Beyond ... / Michel Wieviorka, 130, 
10. Colonial Natives and Indigents: From the Colonial "Civilizing Mission" to Humanitarian Action / Rony Brauman, 137, 
11. The Banlieues as a Colonial Theater, or the Colonial Fracture in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods / Didier Lapeyronnie, 144, 
12. The Pitfalls of Colonial Memory / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard, 153, 
13. Overseas France: A Vestige of the Republican Colonial Utopia? / Françoise Vergès, 165, 
Part II. Postcolonial Ruptures / 2010, 
2.1. Debating the Colonial Legacy, 
14. Rethinking Politics in the French Overseas Departments / Jacky Dahomay, 175, 
15. "Race," Ethnicization, and Discrimination: Is History Repeating Itself or Is This a Postcolonial Peculiarity? / Patrick Simon, 187, 
16. From the Empire to the Republic: "French Islam" / Valérie Amiraux, 198, 
17. Immigration: From Métèques to Foreigners / Yvan Gastaut, 209, 
18. Inequality between Humans: From "Race Wars" to "Cultural Hierarchy" / Pascal Blanchard, 220, 
2.2. Postcolonial and Critical Gazes, 
19. The Postcolonial Challenges of Teaching History: Between History and Memory / Benoît Falaize, 233, 
20. Postcolonial Studies in French Academia / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, 246, 
21. From Slavery to the Postcolonial / Patrick Weil, 257, 
22. The Great Strip Show: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Burqa in France / Elsa Dorlin, 272, 
23. From the Red Peril to the Green Peril: The New Enemy Within / Renaud Dély, 285, 
Part III. Apartheid and the War of Identities in France / 2015, 
3.1. The End of the "French Model"?, 
24. From the Dakar Speech to the Taubira Affair / Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, 303, 
25. Could Islamophobia Be the Start of a New Identity-Based Bond in France? / Rachid Benzine, 311, 
26. The Black Question and the Exhibit B Controversy / Alain Mabanckou and Dominic Thomas, 319, 
27. Cultural Orientalization or Political Occidentalism? / Nicolas Lebourg, 330, 
28. Faces of the Front National (1972–2015) / Sylvain Crépon, 341, 
29. Infiltration of Liquid Populism / Raphaël Liogier, 351, 
3.2. The Rejection of the Other, Identity Radicalization, and the Colonial Unconscious, 
30. Nanoracism and the Force of Emptiness / Achille Mbembe, 363, 
31. Antiracism: A Failed Fight or the End of an Era? / Emmanuel Debono, 368, 
32. Closing Borders against Fear: Europe's Response to the 2015 "Migrants Crisis" / Claire Rodier, 378, 
33. Toward a Real History of French Colonialism / Alain Ruscio, 386, 
34. Is a Colonial History Museum Politically Impossible? / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard, 395, 
35. After Charlie: A New Era or Unfinished Business? / Alec G. Hargreaves, 412, 
Bibliography, 429, 
Index, 463,


CHAPTER 1

THE REPUBLICAN ORIGINS OF THE COLONIAL FRACTURE

Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard


The links between colonization and the Republic remain of utmost importance and relevance to contemporary debates in French society. Might colonization, in fact, represent the inevitable reverse side of what stands as a universal utopia, one that invariably becomes less and less "pure" as one moves away from the center (the metropole), and as the color of the people who are theoretically placed under its "protection" becomes darker? Such complex questions are no doubt impossible to answer definitively. However, they do have the merit of clearly setting out an issue that has, until now, often been avoided or, at times, even distorted.

In order to better understand these issues in all of their complexities, we will begin by examining an article we published in a special report devoted to the question in 2005, a report in which editors Patrick Simon and Sylvia Zappi undertook a broad reflection on republican politics and identity. A diverse and balanced array of contributions served to highlight the urgency of the discussion, despite what some might call its "paradoxical" nature. In their introduction, the editors explained how

the Republic prides itself on its emphasis on the universal citizen and its disinterest in identities, which belong to the private sphere and therefore do not concern the state or the public sphere. The very idea of identity politics is thought to be an invention of multicultural societies, which are believed to foster group membership, allegiances, labels, and emblems. For the Republic, these represent a hypertrophic expression of identity that serves to hide the issue of inequality behind a show of respect for beliefs and practices. In contrast to such displays of identity and community, the Republic asserts its credo of undifferentiated and neutralized public and political spaces. The universal citizen acts on a neutral playing field, but it has chosen the rules of the game to its own advantage. For although the universal promotes neutrality, it is embodied, as we all know, by historic figures that represent the dominant group. If one were to describe the ideal universal citizen in France of the 2000s, basing oneself on a sociology of its main representatives (politicians, the media, the economic elite, intellectuals, and community associations), the neutral figure would be that of a white middle- or upper-class man.


And the editors go on to posit that, "On further examination, republican indifference toward identity is more than dubious. It bears a striking resemblance with an identity politics that cannot understand itself as such, precisely because it serves the interests of the ideal citizen. On the surface, the lack of differentiation acts as a guarantee of fair treatment, but in fact, through contrast, it ends up making minority identities visible." We shall therefore position ourselves in a similar perspective with respect to the issue of the Republic's relationship to the "other," in this case colonized peoples. Our aim is to analyze the "first moments" of this relationship in the nascent Third Republic.

We shall first concern ourselves with the genealogy of the link between republic and colony. In this perspective, the status of the "other" —...

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Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253026253
ISBN 13 
9780253026255
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
500
Herausgeber
Bancel Nicolas, Blanchard Pascal, Thomas Dominic
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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