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Cultural insecurity and its discursive crystallisation in contemporary France

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Ahearne, Jeremy (2017) Cultural insecurity and its discursive crystallisation in contemporary France. Modern & Contemporary France, 25 (3). pp. 265-280. doi:10.1080/09639489.2017.1285276

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Abstract

This article analyses the emergence in French public discourse since 2010 of the term ‘insécurité culturelle’ (‘cultural insecurity’). It traces firstly the take-up of the term outside France since the 1980s in anglophone written news media. It establishes four received meanings for the term: a ‘pure’ cultural insecurity expressing simply a relation to the arts world; a nationally refracted cultural insecurity that expresses that relation through the prism of relations between nations; an anthropologico-political conception; and a conception related to the human development paradigm. The take-up in France of the term has conformed to the anthropologico-political conception. Developments after 2002 in France created propitious conditions for coupling the semantic fields of ‘culture’ and ‘insecurity’. The term itself was launched from 2010 through the work of two quite different ‘discursive entrepreneurs’ associated with the erstwhile ‘popular left’ current close to the French Socialist Party (Christophe Guilluy and Laurent Bouvet). The article analyses in both linguistic and political perspectives how the expression has been taken up since 2012 in the national press in France. In particular, it explores the debate concerning the purchase of the term on reality, and its current discursive fit with the agendas of the mainstream and far right.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DC France
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies
Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): France -- Politics and government -- 21st century, France -- Press coverage, Parti socialiste France, Guilluy, Christophe -- Influence, Bouvet, Laurent -- Influence
Journal or Publication Title: Modern & Contemporary France
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0963-9489
Official Date: 20 February 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
20 February 2017Published
20 February 2017Accepted
Volume: 25
Number: 3
Page Range: pp. 265-280
DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2017.1285276
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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