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    • Coursework 1 (30% of overall mark)  Assignment

      Answer one of the following questions. Courseworks should be no longer than 1200 words and must be submitted via QMPlus by 1pm (CET) on 2nd November. 

      • ‘France is no longer exceptional.’ Discuss with reference to France under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. 

      • What does the recent ‘abaya controversy’ involving Muslim schoolgirls tell us about the relationship between the French Republic and Islam?

      • To what extent do current debates surrounding a new immigration law signal a right-wing shift in French politics? 

      For this coursework, you are expected to draw on a combination of news articles taken from French and/or English-language newspapers and/or news magazines, and scholarly publications (peer-reviewed articles and chapters written by academics). 

      Please remember to include a bibliography, which isn’t included in the word-count. While footnotes, citations and in-text references are counted, the bibliography and title page are not. 

      Please also remember to include a feedback and coversheet. 

      You can go 10% over the word-limit without penalty. 



      Self-certified extenuating circumstances: policy reminder

      https://www.qmul.ac.uk/student-experience/student-wellbeing-hub/extenuating-circumstances-a-guide-for-students/

      Extenuating circumstances are "circumstances that are outside a student's control which may have a negative impact on a student's ability to undertake or complete any assessment so as to cast doubt on the likely validity of the assessment as a measure of the student's achievement". Extenuating circumstances may include medical and personal circumstances such as bereavement, but do not include events such as holidays, mixing up deadlines, workload (academic work, and formal employment), computer problems, or not being aware of rules, regulations or procedures. The Extenuating Circumstances policy is to help students where circumstances are beyond their control. It is a short-term measure and claims for extenuating circumstances are not automatically approved. Students need to explain the reason for the claim and usually provide appropriate documentary evidence.

       




    • Coursework 2 (50% of overall mark) Assignment

      Answer one of the following questions. Courseworks should be no longer than 1500 words and must be submitted via QMPlus by 1pm (CET) on 8th December. 

      • · ‘Rather than adapting to it, contemporary antiracist struggles in France are challenging the Republican model of integration’. Discuss. 

      • · Compare and contrast the riots of June 2023 with the riots of October-November 2005. 

      • · To what extent do the debates on same sex marriage and parité expose the limits of the French republican model? 

      • · To what extent do the recent mass mobilisations against the pension reform signal a return of the social question in France?    

      • · To what extent have debates on globalization influenced contemporary French politics over the past 30 years? 

      • · ‘Spatial inequalities, rather than social inequalities, were at the heart of the Yellow Vest protests in France’. Discuss. 

       

      Please remember to include a bibliography, which is not included in the word-count. While footnotes, citations and in-text references are counted, the bibliography and title page are not.  

      Please also remember to include the coursework coversheet and feedback sheet (available on the QMPlus page)  at the beginning of your assignment. 

      You can go 10% over the word-limit without penalty. 

      Your essay should include the following elements: 

      1. Introduction, including research question;  

      3. A main body that develops your argument and draws on relevant and duly quoted/referenced academic texts; 

      6. Conclusion; 

      7. Academic bibliography presented according to ULIP guidelines (see Student Handbook for more information). 


      Self-certified extenuating circumstances: policy reminder

      https://www.qmul.ac.uk/student-experience/student-wellbeing-hub/extenuating-circumstances-a-guide-for-students/

      Extenuating circumstances are "circumstances that are outside a student's control which may have a negative impact on a student's ability to undertake or complete any assessment so as to cast doubt on the likely validity of the assessment as a measure of the student's achievement". Extenuating circumstances may include medical and personal circumstances such as bereavement, but do not include events such as holidays, mixing up deadlines, workload (academic work, and formal employment), computer problems, or not being aware of rules, regulations or procedures. The Extenuating Circumstances policy is to help students where circumstances are beyond their control. It is a short-term measure and claims for extenuating circumstances are not automatically approved. Students need to explain the reason for the claim and usually provide appropriate documentary evidence.



    • ULC140 Assignments File
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    • ULIP Marking criteria written File
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    • ULC140 Module handbook 2023 24 File
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    • ULC140 Group Presentation Guide File
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    • EXAMPLES OF PAST ESSAYS (Assignment 1) Folder
    • Writing at University Presention 24.10.23 File
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  • WEEK 1 - FRENCH EXCEPTIONALISM


  • WEEK 2 - Immigration and the debate on citizenship in contemporary France

    • This class will explore the question of immigration and its links to the wider issues of French national identity and republicanism. We will examine the changes in migratory flux that occurred in the post-WWII period and the effects that these changes had on the question of immigration and, consequently, on the question of identity.  

    • Required reading:  

    • Jennings, Jeremy (2000), ‘Citizenship, republicanism and multiculturalism in contemporary France’, in British Journal of Political Science, 30, pp.575-598 File
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    • Hargreaves, Alec (2007), ‘Overview’, in Multi-Ethnic France : Immigration, Politics, Culture and Society, New York & London: Routledge, pp.8-39 File
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    • Further reading :  

        

      • Hayward, Jack (2007), Fragmented France: two centuries of disputed identity, Oxford : Oxford University Press  

      • Begag Azouz (2007), Ethnicity and Equality : France in the Balance, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press  

      • Raymond, Gino and Modood, Tariq, (eds.) (2007), The Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 

      • Modood, Tariq, Anna Triandafyllidou and Ricard Zapata-Barrero (2006), Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach, London & New York: Routledge  

      • Guénif-Souilamas, Nacira, (ed.) (2006), La République Mise à Nu par son Immigration, Paris: Fabrique éditions   

      • Weil, Patrick (2005), La République et sa diversité: Immigration, intégration et discrimination, Paris: Seuil  

      • Silverstein, Paul (2004), Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation, Bloomington: Indiana Universtiy Press 

      • Weil, Patrick (2002), Qu’est-ce qu’un Français? Histoire de la Nationalité Française depuis la Révolution, Paris: Grasset   

      • Noiriel, Gérard (1996), The French Melting Pot : Immigration, Citizenship and National Identity, Minneapolis & London: Minnesota University Press 

      • Silverman, Maxim (1992), Deconstructing the Nation: Immigration, Racism and Citizenship in modern France, London : Routledge 

      • Thomas, Elaine (2011), Immigration, Islam and the Politics of Belonging in France: A comparative framework, University of Pennsylvania Press 


    • Week 2 lecture File
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  • WEEK 3 - Islam and Islamophobia in France

  • WEEK 4 - Afro-Frenchness in contemporary France

  • WEEK 5 - A revolt against the Republic ? The urban riots of Autumn 2005

  • Week 6 - Reading Week

    There are no classes this week

  • WEEK 7 - Gender equality and the debate on parité

    • The French political landscape is historically male dominated. This class will explore recent efforts to increase the level of female representation in politics. Particular attention will be given to the campaign and debate on ‘parité’. 

    • Required reading :  

    • Bereni, Laure (2007), ‘French Feminists Renegotiate Republican Universalism: The Gender Parity Campaign’, French Politics, Vol.5, pp.191-209 File
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    • Sineau, Mariette (2003), ‘Parité in politics: From a radical idea to consensual reform’, in Célestin, R., E. DalMolin and I. de Courtivron, Beyond French Feminism: Debates on Women, Politics and Culture in France, 1981-2001, London: Palgrave, pp.113-126 File
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    • Further reading:  

       

      • Opello, Katherine (2006), Gender Quotas, Parity Reform and Political Parties in France, Boulder and New York: Lexington 

      • Ramsey, Raylene (2003), French Women in Politics: Writing Power, Paternal Legitimization and Maternal Legacies, New York and Oxford: Berghahn 

      • Allwood, Gill and Khursheed Wadia (2000), Women and Politics in France, 1958-2000, London: Routledge 

      • Allwood, Gill, ‘Popular conceptions of gender and the parity debate’ in Marks, John and Enda McCaffrey (eds.), French Cultural Debates, Newark: University of Delaware Press, pp.8-21  

      • Duchen, Claire (1986), Feminism in France from May 68 to Mitterrand, London: Routledge 

      • Perry, Sheila and Sue Hart (2000), ‘Parity in French Politics’, in Twomey, Lesley (ed.), Women in Contemporary Culture: Roles and Identities in France and Spain, Bristol: Intellect 

      • Gaspard, Françoise (1994), ‘De la parité: genèse d’un concept, naissance d’un mouvement’, Nouvelles questions féministes, 15(4), pp.29-44 

      • Gaspard, Françoise, Claude Servan-Schreiber and Anne Le Gall (1992), Au pouvoir citoyennes! Liberté, Egalité, Parité, Paris : Seuil 

      • Lépinard, Eléonore (2007), ‘The contentious subject of feminism : defining « women » in France from the Second Wave to Parity’, in Signs, 32(2), pp.375-403 

      • Haase-Dubosc, Danielle (1999), ‘Sexual Difference and Politics in France Today’, in Feminist Studies, 25(1), p183-210  

      • Wallach Scott, Joan (2005), Parité : Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

      • Lévêque, Sandrine (2018), 'Parity and quotas in politics', in Politika [accessed 1 November 2021]. 


    • Week 7 Slides File
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    • Presentation Cant & Carroll 09.11.23 File
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  • WEEK 8 - ‘Sexual minorities’ and the Republic: From the PaCS to the ‘marriage for all’

    • This class will explore the issue of LGBT rights in France. Particular attention will be given to the debate surrounding the PaCS (Pacte Civil de Solidarité) and more recently the ‘mariage pour tous’.  

    • Required reading : 

    • Fassin, Eric (2001), ‘Same sex, different politics: “Gay marriage”” debates in France and the United States’, in Public Culture, 13(2), pp.215-232, https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-215 File
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    • Baruch, Marc-Olivier (2013), ‘Gay marriage and the limits of French liberalism’, in Dissent, Fall

    • Further reading:  

       

      • McCaffrey, Enda (2005), The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France, Burlington: Ashgate 

      • Martel, Frédéric (2008), Le Rose et le Noir: les Homosexuels en France Depuis 1968, Paris : Points 

      • Pratt, Murray (1998), ‘The defence of the straight state: heteronormativity, AIDS in France, and the space of the nation’, in French Cultural Studies, 9, pp.263-280 

      • McCaffrey, Enda (2001), ‘The PaCS debate and the implications for universal equality in France’, in French Cultural Debates, Newark: University of Delaware Press 

      • Sibalis, Michael (2005), ‘Gay liberation comes to France: The Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire (FHAR)’, in French History and Civilization, 1(1), pp.265-276  

      • Jackson, Julian (2009), Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics and Morality in France from the Liberation to AIDS, Chicago:  Chicago University Press 


    • Presentation Colwell & Gell 16.11.23 File
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    • Week 7 - PaCS File
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  • WEEK 9 - The return of the social question?

    • This class will discuss the contemporary relevance of the ‘social question’. Particular attention will be given to ‘post-industrialisation’, to claims that the struggle between capital and labour have given way to new forms of social conflict and to the notion that an underclass of the excluded has emerged in modern France. To illustrate our discussion we will focus on the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ protests.   

    • Required reading (read at least two of the following):  

    • Badiou, Alain (2019), ‘Lessons from the « Yellow Vests » movement’, in African Yearbook of Rhetoric, 9, pp.14-19 File
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    • Galí, Marta Camell, Matteo Polleri, Federico Puletti, Christina Aislinn Chalmers (2020), ‘The Gilets Jaunes: From Declassing to Counter-power’, in South Atlantic Quarterly, doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8663771, pp.866-876 File
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    • Lem, Winnie (2020), ‘Notes on militant populism in contemporary France : contextualizing the gilets jaunes’, in Dialectical Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-020-09595-1  

    • Further reading :  

       

      • Borrel, Monique (1996), Conflits du Travail, changement social et politique en France depuis 1950, Paris: L’Harmattan 

      • Bensaïd, Daniel (1996), ‘Neo-liberal reform and popular rebellion’, in New Left Review, 215, January-February, pp.109-116 

      • Aguiton, Christophe and Daniel Bensaïd (1997), Le Retour de la Question Sociale: Renouveau des Mouvements Sociaux en France 

      • Gorz, André (1982), Farewell to the working class, London: 

      • Gallie, Duncan (1978), In Search of the New Working Class: Automation and Social Integration within the Capitalist Enterprise, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 

      • Touraine, Alain (1966), La conscience ouvrière, Paris : Seuil 

      • Touraine, Alain (1973), Production de la société, Paris : Seuil 

      • Touraine, Alain, Michel Wierviorka and Michel Dubet (1984), Le Mouvement Ouvrier, Paris : Fayard 

      • Donzelot, Jacques (1990), L’invention du social, Paris : Fayard 

      • Murard, Numa (1996), La protection sociale, Paris : La Découverte 

      • Beaud, Stéphane and Michel Pialoux (1999), Retour sur la Condition Ouvrière, Paris : La Découverte 

      • Castel, Robert (1999), Les Métamorphoses de la Question Sociale, Paris : Gallimard 

      • Alain Bihr and Roland Pfefferkorn, Déchiffrer les inégalités (Paris, 1999) 

      • Rosanvallon, Pierre (2000), The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State, Princeton University Press 

      • Confavreux, Joseph (dir.) (2019), Le fond de l’air est jaune : Comprendre une révolte, Paris : Seuil 

      • Bourmeau, Sylvain (dir.) (2019), « Gilets jaunes » : hypothèses sur un mouvement, Paris : La Découverte 

      • Jeanpierre, Laurent (2019), In Girum : Les leçons politiques des ronds-points, Paris : La Découverte 

      • Collectif (2019), « Gilets jaunes » : Hypothèses sur un mouvement, Paris : La Découverte 


    • Week 9 - Social question File
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    • Powerpoints Harris & Hirst 23.11.23 File
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    • Presentation Kent & Koroleva 23.11.23 File
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  • WEEK 10 - Globalisation and the revival of French exceptionalism?

    • Buildiing on the previous class, this class will explore the question of globalisation in the French context. We will focus on how globalisation has influenced the French political and social landscape in recent years. Particular attention will be given to anti-globalisation protests and movements in the late 1990s and early 2000s.  

    • Required reading:  

    • Ancelovici, Marcos (2002), ‘Organizing against globalization: the case of ATTAC in France’, in Politics & Society, 30(3), pp.427-463, doi:10.1177/0032329202030003003 File
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    • Bodnar, Judit (2003), ‘Roquefort vs Big Mac: Globalization and its others’, in European Journal of Sociology, 44(1), pp.133-144 File
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    • Further reading:  

       

      • Maclean, Mairi and Joseph Szarka (eds.) (2008), France on the World Stage: Nation State Strategies in the Global Era, London: Palgrave 

      • Beresford Smith, Timothy (2004), France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 

      • Gordon, Philip and Sophie Meunier (2001), The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization, Washington DC: Brookings Institute   

      • Agrikoliansky, Eric, Olivier Fillieule and Nonna Mayer (eds.) (2005), L’altermondialisme en France: La longue histoire d’une nouvelle cause, Paris: Flammarion 

      • Sommier, Isabelle (2012), ‘Le renouveau de la critique sociale depuis les années 1990: entre mythe et réalité’, Modern & Contemporary France, 20(2), pp.153-168 


    • Globalisation File
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    • Presentation Parker & Koffman 30.11.23 File
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    • Presentation Mousley & Ramamonjiarisoa File
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  • WEEK 11 - Paris ou le désert français : Anti-urban sentiments in contemporary France

  • WEEK 12 - Towards a new republican model ?

    • To conclude we will go over the various issues addressed over the course of the semester.  

    • Week 12 - Conclusions File
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    • Presentation Gill & Graber 14.12.23 File
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