Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2023.2225356
R. McLaughlin
Abstract In his book 24/7, Jonathan Crary describes our contemporary temporality, an always-on existence that detaches itself from any possible political action in the form of a long-term project. A clear example of this temporality, in which a tremendous amount of labor and resources are expended to produce the consensus that no political change is possible or necessary, is the 24-hour news cycle. In Chats perchés (2004), his film contrasting the contemporary French news media with scenes from Parisian protests in the wake of the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the presidential elections in France, Chris Marker takes up Guy Debord’s practice of détournement, reversing the production-consumption flow of images and creating a new situation for thought and action. Marker’s use of voice-over and montage to repurpose the news media and documentary images of protest serves as a means of breaking out of the 24/7 temporality of the spectacle, allowing the viewer to tie the present to previous instances of revolutionary agency and to imagine the possibility of future political change.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2023.2225363
Giuseppina Mecchia, John P. Walsh, Roger Celestin, Eliane DalMolin
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2023.2185404
A. Hargreaves
Abstract After dozens of attacks during the past ten years in which hundreds have been killed by French jihadists, it is often suggested that subversive attitudes towards the Republic and its code of laïcité are widespread among Muslims in France. Yet while Muslims are often at odds with recent laws that they consider to be unfairly targeted against them, those interviewed in opinion surveys express high levels of support for the code of laïcité as laid down in the law of 1905, which separated the state and its representatives from religious institutions while simultaneously safeguarding the right of members of civil society to express their religious beliefs not only privately but also in the public sphere. Very few Muslim girls were exercising their right to wear headscarves in state schools when these were banned in 2004, and very few women were wearing burkas until these in turn were banned in any public space in 2010. But these new laws have been perceived as Islamophobic not only by the tiny minorities who were wearing these garments but also by many other Muslims, in whose eyes these measures parallel other long-standing patterns of discrimination hindering their access to jobs, housing and other social goods.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2023.2185428
Mary Elizabeth Allen
Abstract This article considers Laïcité (secularism) in France both through particular stories and the more theoretical stances that have emerged in the past few years. I focus on French schools, especially recent actions taken by the Ministry of Education to promote and instruct students and the public on the values of secularism—activities that notably contribute an increasing feeling of unwelcome among many Muslims in France. I analyze the culture war around hijab that jeopardizes women’s participation in society though attention to women’s voices in the new film Marianne directed by Valentina Canavesio.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2023.2185403
Adina Stroia
Avec son premier roman, La Petite derni ere, Fatima Daas s’est impos ee comme la grande r ev elation de la rentr ee litt eraire 2020. Son r ecit met en sc ene une jeune femme de 29 ans, Fatima, Française d’origine alg erienne, musulmane pratiquante, lesbienne, asthmatique, habitant la banlieue parisienne de Clichy-sous-Bois, qui passe ses journ ees dans les transports pour rejoindre Paris o u elle poursuit ses etudes. Sa vie se d eploie sous le signe d’un pendule qui oscille entre des positions g eographiques, socioeconomiques et identitaires distinctes, qui semblent s’opposer et qui font la force de ce premier texte. Le roman prend la forme d’un monologue a la premi ere personne, divis e en courts chapitres qui commencent par des variations d’une affirmation identitaire a force incantatoire : « Je m’appelle Fatima... ». Les phrases courtes et percutantes qui le rythment rappellent aussi bien la pulsion du rap, que la narratrice ecoute souvent, que l’ ecriture d’Annie Ernaux et de Marguerite Duras, que Daas mentionne souvent parmi ses influences litt eraires centrales. Avec le personnage de Fatima, Daas embarque ses lecteurs dans une quête identitaire qui se veut non t el eologique, en mettant en avant le caract ere dynamique de celle-ci. Avant même sa publication, le roman fut soutenu par Virginie Despentes, une des autrices-phares de la litt erature française contemporaine qui, contrairement a ses habitudes, fit l’ eloge de cette jeune autrice encore inconnue dans une d eclaration : « Le monologue de Fatima Daas se construit par fragments, comme si elle updatait Barthes et Mauriac pour Clichy-sousBois. [... ] Ici l’ ecriture cherche a inventer l’impossible : comment tout concilier, comment respirer dans la honte, comment danser dans une impasse jusqu’ a ouvrir une porte l a o u se dressait un mur ». A sa sortie, le texte de Fatima Daas fut accompagn e d’une r eception critique elogieuse aussi bien en France qu’ a l’ etranger, obtenant plusieurs prix importants, comme le Prix Inrockuptibles du Premier Roman ou l’Internationaler Literatur Preis (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin).
法蒂玛·达斯（Fatima Daas）在她的第一部小说《小最后一个时代》（La Petite Derni Ere）中，将自己确立为2020年文学年的伟大人物。她的研究使一名29岁的法蒂玛（Fatima）进入SC-ENE，她是阿尔及利亚血统的法国人，是一名执业穆斯林、女同性恋、哮喘患者，居住在巴黎郊区克里希苏斯博伊斯（Clichy sous Bois），她每天都在交通工具上度过，前往巴黎继续学习。他的生活是在一个钟摆的标志下展开的，钟摆在地理、社会经济和身份的不同立场之间摆动，这些立场似乎是对立的，并构成了第一个文本的力量。这部小说采取了第一人称独白的形式，分为简短的章节，从一个具有咒语力量的身份声明的变体开始：“我的名字是法蒂玛。。。“。简短而有力的句子让人想起了说唱的驱动力，叙述者经常听到说唱，以及安妮·埃尔诺和玛格丽特·杜拉斯的作品，达斯经常提到这是她的核心文学影响之一。凭借法蒂玛的角色，达斯带领读者踏上了一段非地球学的身份探索之旅，强调了她的动态特征。甚至在出版之前，这部小说就得到了维吉尼·德斯彭特斯（Virginie Despentes）的支持，她是当代法国文学的领军人物之一，与她的习惯相反，她在一篇文章中赞扬了这位年轻的、仍然默默无闻的作家：“法蒂玛·达斯（Fatima Daas）的独白是由碎片构成的，仿佛她在为克里希·苏斯博伊斯（Clichy Sousbois）更新巴特和莫里亚克（Barthes and Mauriac）。[……]在这里，圣经试图发明不可能的事情：如何调和一切，如何在羞耻中呼吸，如何在死胡同中跳舞，直到打开一扇门。法蒂玛·达斯（Fatima Daas）的文本出版后，在法国和国外都受到了广泛的批评，获得了许多重要奖项，如第一部小说的Inrockupbles奖或国际文学奖（柏林世界文化之家）。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2023.2185424
Jérémy Guedj
Abstract This article proposes to rethink, in broad strokes, the links between between the Jews of France and secularism by historicizing the subject and presenting the major issues. However, a diachronic vision shows that these relations are not linear and cannot be reduced to the simple model of ”Israelism“ or ”Franco-Judaism“, which was especially valid for the first half of the century. This leads to a better understanding of the interest and the limits of a comparison with Islam, which one tends too much to place in relation to this ”Israelite“ Judaism. However, if we proceed to a synchronic comparison, we can realize the many common points in the common approach to secularism.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2023.2185419
Ibrahim Bechrouri
Abstract During the 2022 presidential race in France, left-wing groups and leaders were systematically accused of "Islamo-leftism,” by opponents, in other words of being complicit in what is generally described as a radical Islamist project that is endangering the French Republic. In recent years, accusations of "Islamo-leftism" against groups or individuals associated with the left wing of the political spectrum have become commonplace in France. This term, initially coined by Pierre-André Taguieff in 2002, has a broader history, stretching back to the Cold War and the Colonial Era. After discussing what the narrative of Islamo-leftism encompasses, the debates surrounding it, and its social functions, this article will explain how President Emmanuel Macron and his allies have used it to impede progressive forces from significantly mobilizing against Islamophobia
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2023.2185413
Dominic Thomas, Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard
Abstract On both sides of the Atlantic, polemics have been raging on complex questions relating to identity and race: cancel culture, wokism, critical race theory, assaults on affirmative action policies, and labeling scholars “Islamo-Leftists.” The focus of this article is provided by a closer examination of the ways in which a group of militant academics have instrumentalized the notion of “decolonialism” and how adherents have positioned themselves as the self-appointed imaginary defenders of academic freedom in research. Having identified the primary corrupting influence as originating in the United States, they have sought to discredit scholarship on decolonial, postcolonial, and intersectional studies, delineating in the process a common enemy. What transpires is an antagonism aimed at scholars who have elected to subject French Republican ideals to greater scrutiny, highlighted shortcomings in secularist policies while pointing to deep-seated historical fractures in the country’s sense of exceptionalism, and also underscoring France’s inability to address structural racism and disquieting forms of Islamophobia. We all know the considerable impact postcolonial studies have had internationally, reconfiguring and reshaping intellectual debates and institutional frameworks and stimulating broad interdisciplinary research. One cannot overstate the importance of fostering spaces in which rigorous research findings can be shared and discussed and of finding our way back to the kind of dialogue and exchanges that were foundational elements in a tradition that made France’s reputation and were a source of pride.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2023.2185411
Stéphane Beaud, J. Rogers
Abstract The terrorist attacks of January 2015 in Paris prompted intense public debates concerning the relationship between Muslims and core elements of French republican values such as free speech and laïcité. The voices of Muslims themselves were heard relatively little in French media coverage of these matters. Drawing on a sociological study of eight second-generation members of an Algerian immigrant family, this article shows how their first-hand testimony illustrates the diversity of attitudes among French Muslims. Female members of the family who had built successful careers participated in the huge January 11 rally condemning the terrorist attacks and supporting free speech. Brothers with poorer employment records expressed more cynical attitudes, including in some cases supporting the claim that Charlie Hebdo journalists had been “asking for it” by publishing highly provocative cartoons which many Muslims considered to be Islamophobic. A sister working as an employment counsellor in a disadvantaged multi-ethnic banlieue with high levels of unemployment recounted how the disaffected and in some cases increasingly unhinged attitudes displayed in recent years by those she was charged with helping resembled those of the young men who had perpetrated the jihadist attacks of January 2015.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2023.2185420
Mohamed Amer Meziane
Abstract This article first deploys a historical account of the French model of secularization, before and beyond mere laïcité. Drawing on an analysis of the imperial and colonial genealogies of secularization, it then moves on to examine some structural polemics in contemporary France: polemics about the veil since 1989 and the more recent debate on Wokism and Islamo-leftism among intellectuals. The last part of the essay is a theoretical intervention in some of the current debates about race, gender and secularism in recent scholarship on France and Algeria done by feminist Scholars.
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