ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture provides a detailed survey of the highly differentiated field of research on French politics, society and culture across the social sciences and humanities.

The handbook includes contributions from the most eminent authors in their respective fields who bring their authority to bear on the task of outlining the current state-of-the art research in French Studies across disciplinary boundaries. As such, it represents an innovative as well as an authoritative survey of the field, representing an opportunity for a critical examination of the contrasts and the continuities in methodological and disciplinary orientations in a single volume.

The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture will be essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners involved in, and actively concerned about, research on French politics, society and culture.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

French politics and culture in the Macron era
ByMarion Demossier, David Lees, Aurélien Mondon, Nina Parish

part I|58 pages

Politics in modern and contemporary France

chapter 1|12 pages

From despair, to hope, to limbo

The French elections and the future of the Republic
ByAurélien Mondon

chapter 2|13 pages

Political parties in modern and contemporary France

ByJocelyn Evans

chapter 3|9 pages

Gaullism as a doctrine and political movement

ByBenjamin Leruth

chapter 4|12 pages

France and the world

The African dimension
ByMargaret A. Majumdar

chapter 5|10 pages

Gender and politics in modern and contemporary France

ByGill Allwood

part II|51 pages

Identification and belonging

chapter 6|10 pages

The politics of migration

ByAbdellali Hajjat

chapter 7|8 pages

The political transversality of Islamophobia

An analysis of historical and ideological foundations
ByMarwan Mohammed

chapter 8|10 pages

The new politics of racialisation in France

The Roma, territorialisation and mobility
ByMarion Demossier

chapter 9|11 pages

Youth and politics in France

Democratic deficit or new model of citizenship?
ByAnne Muxel

chapter 10|10 pages

Anti-racism, race and the Republic in contemporary France

ByTom Martin

part III|72 pages

Spaces of political and cultural contestation

chapter 11|12 pages

La France dans la rue

ByChris Reynolds

chapter 12|12 pages

The French ‘banlieues’

Realities, myths, representations
ByChristina Horvath

chapter 13|8 pages

The good, the bad and the ugly

‘Banlieue youth’ as a figure of speech and as speaking figures
ByFabien Truong

chapter 14|14 pages

Nightclubs and national belonging

Malek Boutih’s solutions for personal and national insecurity
ByMehammed Mack

chapter 15|11 pages

Local and social belonging in the contemporary French rural world

ByNicolas Renahy

chapter 16|13 pages

Gender and crisis

Women’s writing in French at the start of the twenty-first century
ByShirley Jordan

part IV|77 pages

Mediating memories and cultures

chapter 17|11 pages

Remembering the First World War in France

The Historial de la Grande Guerre and Thiepval Museum 1
ByNina Parish, Eleanor Rowley

chapter 18|12 pages

Waging the war of words

Propaganda and the mass media in modern France, 1939–2017
ByDavid Lees

chapter 19|9 pages

Cultural policy

A weakened exception? (1959–2016)
ByPhilippe Poirrier

chapter 20|11 pages

Popular music nostalgia in contemporary French media discourse

ByChris Tinker

chapter 21|10 pages

The media and presidential elections

ByRaymond Kuhn

chapter 22|11 pages

The multiple deaths of the intellectual in France

ByBenoît Dillet

chapter 23|11 pages

Jewish culture in twenty-first-century France

ByRebecca Infield, Rebekah Vince