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Ahearne, Jeremy (2014) Laïcité : a parallel French cultural policy (2002-2007). French Cultural Studies, Volume 25 (Number 3-4). pp. 320-329. doi:10.1177/0957155814532195 ISSN 0957-1558.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155814532195
Abstract
The recasting of laïcité in France between 2002 and 2012 constituted a channel through which succeeding right-wing governments endeavoured to secure a form of cultural hegemony. This article focuses on the period 2002–7. The process leading to the anti-veil legislation of 2004 under President Chirac revealed how this symbolically charged motif once associated with the left had been displaced and integrated into a traditional and restrictive right-wing culture-shaping programme. Interior minister Sarkozy’s endeavours between 2002 and 2004 to fashion an institutional dialogue with Islam in France were initially at odds with Chirac’s programme. However, by 2007, Sarkozy had changed tack to produce an alternative reframing of laïcité, ‘positively’ celebrating the intertwining of national and Catholic cultures, whilst using Islam as a negative foil for the projection of that identity. This laid the groundwork for the subsequent hardening of laïcité debates and the appropriation of the term by the far right.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DC France | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | French Cultural Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0957-1558 | ||||
Official Date: | August 2014 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 25 | ||||
Number: | Number 3-4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 320-329 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0957155814532195 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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