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{"title":"A lesson for the world: Solange Faladé’s anti-colonial multiracialism ¹","authors":"Sinan Richards","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2264217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2264217","url":null,"abstract":"Solange Adelola Faladé (1925–2004) was a French-Beninois doctor, anthropologist and psychoanalyst. The first woman Franco-African psychoanalyst in France, she founded her own psychoanalytical society, l’École freudienne, in 1983. The aim of this article is twofold: on the one hand, I introduce Faladé’s life and works, and on the other, I discuss her theory of multiracialism. I focus on Faladé’s activities with the Institut d’Ethno-Psychopathologie Africaine and her theory of race and racism from the early 1990s to highlight the crossover between Faladé’s orthodox Lacanianism and her radical anti-colonial scholarship. Beginning in May 1994, during a session of her seminar Autour de la Chose, Faladé interrupted her orthodox Lacanian teachings to discuss the psychoanalytical and racial implications of negotiations between Nelson Mandela and Frederik De Klerk, which inaugurated the beginning of the end of apartheid in South Africa, creating with it a multiracial state and democracy. As I will show, in Faladé’s theory, there is a demand for radical equality, and the lesson of respecting each other’s ways of enjoying differently, the respecter sa façon de jouir, is crucial in any psychoanalytic understanding of racism.","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135902046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Power, pacification and legacies of French colonialism in New Caledonia: public statues and Nouméa’s memoryscape","authors":"Briony Neilson","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2246911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2246911","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn June 2022 a new public statue was unveiled in New Caledonia. The new statue, erected in the Place des Cocotiers in central Nouméa, depicts the famous handshake between Kanak separatist leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou and loyalist Caldoche leader Jacques Lafleur that had sealed the French-brokered Matignon Accords, bringing years of violent conflict between Indigenous and settler communities to a close. The inauguration of the new monument, 34 years to the day since the signing of the agreement, comes at a time of considerable uncertainty in terms of New Caledonia’s relationship to France. In some ways, the monument’s appearance signals a major shift in the memoryscape of the archipelago generally and Nouméa in particular. But at the same time, the new statue is less progressive than it might at first appear. Indeed, its significance rests not only in what it represents but also in what it effectively obscures. This article offers an account and analysis of the erection of the new Tjibaou–Lafleur statue, positioning the monument both within a historical context of public statuary in New Caledonia and the contemporary context of evolving relations between Kanak and non-indigenous populations.RÉSUMÉEn juin 2022, un nouveau monument a été inauguré en Nouvelle-Calédonie. La nouvelle statue, érigée sur la place des Cocotiers dans le centre-ville de Nouméa, représente la célèbre poignée de main entre Jean-Marie Tjibaou (chef du bloc kanak en faveur du séparatisme) et Jacques Lafleur (chef du bloc caldoche contre l’indépendance), qui en 1988 avait scellé les accords de Matignon négociés par la France, aidant à résoudre des années de conflit violent entre les communautés Kanak et non-Kanak. L’inauguration du nouveau monument, 34 ans jour pour jour depuis la signature de l’accord, intervient à un moment d’incertitude profonde en ce qui concerne les relations entre la Nouvelle-Calédonie et la France. D’une certaine manière, l’apparition du monument signale une transformation majeure dans le paysage mémoriel de l’archipel en général et de Nouméa en particulier. Mais en même temps, la nouvelle statue est moins progressiste qu’il n’y paraît à première vue ; sa signification ne réside pas seulement dans ce qu’elle représente mais aussi dans ce qu’elle occulte. Cet article analyse le contexte autour de l’érection de la nouvelle statue. Il localise le monument dans un contexte plus large de l’histoire coloniale de la statuaire publique en Nouvelle-Calédonie et le met dans son contexte contemporain d’évolution des rapports entre les populations kanak et non-kanak. AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank the editors of this special issue, Hannah Grayson and Nina Parish, as well as the two anonymous peer reviewers for their insightful comments. She also extends thanks to Elizabeth Rechniewski, Charlotte Ann Legg, Nic Maclellan, James Keating, Sophie Loy-Wilson, Robert Aldrich, Sophie Fuggle and Christophe Dervieux. Special thanks are particularly owed to","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135894904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The end of the world: Huang Yong Ping’s intermedial art installations","authors":"Rosalind Silvester","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2246933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2246933","url":null,"abstract":"From 1987 to 1994, a period that overlapped with his move to France in 1989, Huang Yong Ping washed texts in washing machines as part of his ‘damp method’ series. His objective was to ‘cut off the tongue’ by destroying certain classics, while at the same time ‘nurtur[ing] the tongue’ by turning to other classics. This paradoxical strategy epitomises his practice and philosophy of art which privileges creation through destruction and showing over describing by questioning the possibilities of communication, whether within or across cultures. This article analyses three of Huang’s artworks that are inspired by texts (books, journals, newspapers, scripture) and their relationship to water and endings, whether linguistic, material, metaphysical, aesthetic or ecological. It focuses on his transformation of two-dimensional texts into three-dimensional structures which draws attention to the mediation of culture and knowledge. It also considers how these artworks resonate with Arne Næss’s concept of deep ecology and their correspondences with Bruno Latour’s concept of modes of existence, those networks of associations in which human and nonhuman entities are actors with agency in the processes of redistribution.","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135537289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experimenting with museography: the Musée des Confluences in Lyon","authors":"Marion Demossier","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2246941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2246941","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines innovative forms of museography and their relationship to national narratives involving history, memory and locality. It seeks to assess how definitions of culture have shifted towards world culture and to what extent it can be argued that a radical approach to the anthropology museum or musées de société (also known as world culture museums) has emerged. The discussion is centred on recent exhibitions and iconic objects displayed by the Musée des Confluences in Lyon and the cultural imagination they seek to promote with both local and international visitors. New avenues in creating cosmopolitan civic forms of memories disconnected from colonial legacies will be examined.","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135148663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘L’amour se dit dans un regard’? Immigration, visibility and representation in Marguerite Duras’s <i>Les Mains négatives</i> and Alice Diop’s <i>Nous</i>","authors":"Katie Pleming","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2251410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2251410","url":null,"abstract":"Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives (1979) is a short film which interrogates the exclusion and marginalisation of immigrants in postcolonial French society by highlighting the hidden labour of Black sanitation workers in Paris. Alice Diop has described Les Mains négatives as ‘the entire subtext’ for her film Nous (2020), a documentary about people living in the suburbs of Paris. At once documents of social reality and experimental meditations on representation and filmmaking, both films examine the entanglements of viewing relations and social exclusion, and interrogate the moving image’s capacity to remedy the ‘invisibility’ of certain lives. This article brings the two films together in order to probe the ethical and political stakes of their strategies of representation, drawing on recent criticism at the intersections of postcolonial theory, and film and visual culture scholarship. This critical lens highlights the political force of the films’ experimental form. Yet bringing the two films into dialogue also allows productive frictions to emerge, exposing in particular the challenging aspects of the representation of Black subjects in Les Mains négatives, which stand uneasily alongside the film’s message of inclusion and recognition.","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice","authors":"Ari J. Blatt","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2248030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2248030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135879080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blaise Cendrars: the invention of life","authors":"Emma Wagstaff","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2236561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2236561","url":null,"abstract":"\"Blaise Cendrars: the invention of life.\" Modern & Contemporary France, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136267247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pedagogy of the philosophy dissertation in France: paths to freedom, or thèse-antithèse-foutaise?","authors":"John McKeane","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2022.2164566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2022.2164566","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article studies the philosophy dissertation as a cultural practice within the educational institution in France. It argues that this cultural practice has a strong association with the preservation and ongoing creation of French national identity. I present findings from a survey of pedagogic materials offering advice for students taking the philosophy exam at baccalaureate level. Having given an overview of the cultural importance of the philosophy dissertation, I present the ways in which the general principles of method and structure taught are justified. We then move into the advice given relating to the dissertation structure that is habitually recommended—an introduction and then three parts (most often thesis, antithesis, synthesis). The article considers the reasons why such pedagogic practices can seem to fall back into prescriptivism or formalism, but also seeks to draw out the ways in which the philosophy dissertation can be a more open, uncertain form of thinking.","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46570226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An interview with Frédéric Lordon: on communism, agency, Spinoza, and responsibility","authors":"S. Manche","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2203475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2203475","url":null,"abstract":"Relatively unknown outside France, the Spinozist philosopher Frédéric Lordon has become one of the most prominent intellectuals on the French radical left. With the social movement against Macron’s pension reforms gaining in strength since January 2023, Lordon does not limit himself to writing opinion pieces at his desk or to making the occasional appearance at marches. Although vocal about not being a member of any party, he frequently speaks at rallies for the Trotskyist political organisation Révolution Permanente—a recent split off from the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste—and moves between picket lines in support of striking rail and refinery workers. Initially leaning towards the right during his early student days at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, he later completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Robert Boyer, one of the central figures of the French Regulation School (a structuralist Marxist current in heterodox economics). It is as an economist that his interest in Spinoza first appears in La Politique du capital (2002) and Spinoza’s thought has gone on to shape in a fundamental way his political, social, and economic works. Most notably since the publication of Imperium (2015), Lordon’s works are testament to the radical left’s internal debates, throughout which a back and forth between the Spinozist, the Invisible Committee, and the autonomist left can be carefully traced. Understanding the left in France today, and more widely the country’s current political conjuncture, would be impossible without considering Lordon’s work. So far, two of Lordon’s books have been translated into English: Willing Slaves of Capital (2014) and Imperium (2022). This interview introduces his more recent ideas, in particular his work on communism, his critique of Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, and Rancière, and his upcoming collaboration on psychoanalysis with Sandra Lucbert. Solange Manche discovered Lordon’s work in 2018, when attending his seminar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Recently, she completed a PhD in French at the University of Cambridge. In her thesis, she rethinks the notion of the financial subject, building upon new ontologies found in the work of Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, and Lordon. She currently teaches as the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and is preparing a project on communism and economic planning in contemporary French philosophy and heterodox economics.","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45323660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking laïcité as a geopolitical concept","authors":"Christopher Lizotte","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2167964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2167964","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Laïcité, France’s idiosyncratic religious neutrality, is a concept that governs significant aspects of daily life while being notoriously variable in its application. Alongside sociological, legal and historical understandings of laïcité, I propose an additional way to view laïcité: through a critical geopolitical perspective. I argue that laïcité has been made and unmade through geographic imaginaries and practices through which idealised modes of universal citizenship confront and negotiate with affiliations to faith and culture to produce hegemonic ideas about the place of religious identity in French society. In particular, this confrontation has occurred within the French public school system, the école républicaine. I argue that laïcité, as it is manifested through educational policies as well as geographic imaginaries, reflects a will to forge a nationally unified citizenry as well as ambivalence about the need to negotiate with locally rooted cultural identities. I illustrate this through the phenomenon of student infringements, or atteintes, against laïcité: while these are framed as a grave threat to republican unity requiring national interventions, there has nevertheless been a consistent lack of spatially specific official knowledge of where atteintes take place.","PeriodicalId":44362,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46900782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}