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Paying close attention to how people speak about themselves and their acceptance and rejection by others, this book provides an intimate account of the challenges faced by the millions of people in France—and throughout Western Europe—who fully participate in the life of their country but are often not seen as belonging there.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals
Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
This book revisits France’s attitude towards the German question as it existed and evolved during the post-World War Two and the Cold War eras in order to shed light on previously neglected aspect of the history of the Cold War, of Germany, and of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed in France and Germany.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Sociology
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines and demystifies the terroir ideology to provide a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept in Burgundy, raising important questions about the future of quality wine in a global era.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Cultural Studies (General)
With his meticulous approach to craft, formal innovations, and intensely personal style, Robert Bresson was in many ways the prototypical auteur. This strikingly original study of Bresson and his cinematic afterlives his influence in the work of French filmmakers such as Pialat, Eustache, and Rohmer—directors united by the “problem” of authorial style they inherited from Bresson.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
The France of the Little-Middles explores the strained reception of the migrants in The Poplars, a housing development in suburban Paris that dates back to the mid-20th centrury. The authors examine tensions within the complex less as a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
This compact and engaging history recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities following World War II. It provides insightful analysis of decolonization, the Cold War, and European unification, always attentive to the challenges posed by an increasingly multipolar, interconnected world.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
After World War II, France embarked on a national project of modernization, which included the development of mass housing. At Home in Postwar France reveals how modernizers saw the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building, and identifies the emergence of a “right to comfort” that shaped new expectations for well-being.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies
What are the nuances, insider codes, and hidden history of the alignment between cinema and nationalism? Hugo Frey suggests that the concepts of the ‘political myth’ and ‘the film event’ are the essential theoretical reference points for unlocking film history. Nationalism and the Cinema in France offers new arguments regarding those connections in the French case.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
“While there is a lot of information for readers to take in, the subject is inherently complex, spanning different aspects of French foreign policy and the politics of other countries and institutions. In spite of this complexity, Martin displays a good grasp of the material. The book is the product of archival research in England, France, and the United States, as well as engagement with published collections and the relevant secondary literature on the topic. Martin has thus covered most of his bases.” · H-France Review
“[The book] is extremely well researched, well written, and Martin accomplishes his stated objective: namely, to provide a more balanced account of de Gaulle that goes beyond views of him as either a visionary, or an irresponsible and anti-American nationalist…Martin’s analysis makes a unique contribution in that it examines the linkages between the General's economic, political and security policy in order to understand how the three came together to shape his overall policy toward the US.” · Erin Mahan, Chief Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Subject: Film and Television Studies
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Colonial History
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Cultural Studies (General)
Subject: Film and Television Studies
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
Subject: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century
The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II
Subject: History: World War II
The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870–1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace. In response to these pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism—articulated as a political language, a cultural vision, and a community of identity—not only to define and defend their own interests against the nationalist claims of France and Germany, but also to push for social change, defend religious rights, and promote the status of the region within the larger national community.
Subject: History (General)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General)
Subject: History: World War II
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
Subject: Film and Television Studies
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present
Subject: Colonial History
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century
Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Subject: History: World War II
Subjects: History: World War II Colonial History
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Heritage Studies
Subject: History (General)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
Subject: Colonial History
Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Subject: History (General)
Drawing on an extensive range of political, legal and sociological materials, the author presents and evaluates environmental policy-making in France at a time when environmental problems are growing in complexity and gravity.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies Memory Studies
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II Media Studies
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies
Subject: History: World War I
Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Sociology
