Section: WEEK 1 - FRENCH EXCEPTIONALISM | ULC140 - Issues in Contemporary French Politics - 2023/24

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- Select activity This class will explore the question of French exc...
  
  This class will explore the question of French exceptionalism. What exactly does this term signify? We will begin by looking at the idea itself, its origins and how it is understood in the French context. We will then discuss its relation to republicanism.
- Select activity Required reading (available in Course Reader):
  
  Required reading (available in Course Reader):
- Select activity Chabal, Emile (2017), ‘From the banlieue to the burkini: the many lives of French republicanism’, in Modern & Contemporary France, 25:1, pp.68 74, DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2016.1246164
  
  Chabal, Emile (2017), ‘From the banlieue to the burkini: the many lives of French republicanism’, in Modern & Contemporary France, 25:1, pp.68 74, DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2016.1246164 File
  
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- Select activity Lovecy, Jill (1999), ‘The End of French Exceptionalism?’, in West European Politics, 22(4), pp.205-224, DOI: 10.1080/01402389908425340
  
  Lovecy, Jill (1999), ‘The End of French Exceptionalism?’, in West European Politics, 22(4), pp.205-224, DOI: 10.1080/01402389908425340 File
  
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- Select activity Additional reading:
  
  Additional reading:
- Select activity Rieker, Pernille (2018), ‘French status seeking in a changing world: taking on the role as guardian of the liberal order’, in French Politics, 16, pp.419-438
  
  Rieker, Pernille (2018), ‘French status seeking in a changing world: taking on the role as guardian of the liberal order’, in French Politics, 16, pp.419-438 File
  
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- Select activity Pichichero, Christy (2022), '"Is God still French?": Racecraft, States of Exception, and the Creation of l'Exception Française', PLMA 137(1), pp.125-135
  
  Pichichero, Christy (2022), '"Is God still French?": Racecraft, States of Exception, and the Creation of l'Exception Française', PLMA 137(1), pp.125-135 File
  
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- Select activity Further reading:   Godin, Emmanuel and Tony Chafer...
  
  Further reading:
  
  Godin, Emmanuel and Tony Chafer (2010), The End of the French exception?: Decline and Revival of the French Model, London: Palgrave
  Godin, Emmanuel and Tony Chafer (2005), The French Exception, London and New York: Berghahn.
  Cole, Alistair, Patrick Le Galès and Jonah Levy (eds) (2005), Developments in French politics 3, London: Palgrave.
  Maclean, Mairi (1997), ‘Privatisation, dirigisme and the global economy: An end to French exceptionalism’, in Modern and Contemporary France, 5(2), pp.215-228
  Furet, François, Jacques Julliard and Pierre Rosanvallon (1988), La République du centre. La fin de l’exception française, Paris : Calmann-Lévy
  Raissiguier, Catherine (2010), Reinventing the Republic : Gender, Migration and Citizenship in France, Stanford: Stanford University Press
  Rieker, Pernille (2017), ‘French exceptionalism: Old wine, new bottle?’, in French Foreign Policy in a Changing World, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
- Select activity WEEK 1 Slides
  
  WEEK 1 Slides File
  
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