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France's modernising mission : citizenship, welfare and the ends of empire / edited by Ed Naylor.

Naylor, Ed, editor.
2018
JV1811
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Title
France's modernising mission : citizenship, welfare and the ends of empire / edited by Ed Naylor.
ISBN
9781137551337 (electronic book)
113755133X (electronic book)
9781137551320
1137551321
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55133-7
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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10.1057/978-1-137-55133-7 doi
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JV1811
Dewey Decimal Classification
325/.344
Summary
This volume explores how France?s ?modernising mission? unfolded during the post-war period and its reverberations in the decades after empire. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France sought to reinvent its empire by transforming the traditional ?civilising mission? into a ?modernising mission?. Henceforth, French claims to rule would be based on extending citizenship rights and the promise of economic development and welfare within a ?Greater France?. In the face of rising anti-colonial mobilization and a new international order, redefining the terms that bound colonised peoples and territories to the metropole was a strategic necessity but also a dynamic which Paris struggled to control. The language of reform and equality was seized upon locally to make claims on metropolitan resources and wrest away the political initiative. Intertwined with coercion and violence, the struggle to define what ?modernisation? would mean for colonised societies was a key factor in the wider process of decolonisation. Contributions by leading specialists extend geographically from Africa to the Pacific and to metropolitan France itself, examining a range of topics including education policy, colonial knowledge production, rural development and slum clearance. .
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Naylor, Ed, editor.
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St. Antony's series.
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Chapter 1. Introduction; Ed Naylor
Part I) Rethinking Education and Citizenship.- Chapter 2. Conflicting Modernities: Battles over France’s policy of adapted education in French West Africa; Tony Chafer
Chapter 3. Institutional Terra Non Firma: Representative democracy and the chieftaincy in French West Africa; Liz Fink
Chapter 4. Decolonisation Without Independence? Breaking with the colonial in New Caledonia (1946-1975); Benoît Trépied.-Part II) Mental Maps and the Territory
Chapter 5. Rule of Experts? Governing modernisation in late colonial French Africa; James McDougall
Chapter 6. From Tent to Village regroupement: The Colonial state and social engineering of rural space, 1843 to 1962; Neil MacMaster
Chapter 7. Shantytowns and Re-housing in Late Colonial Algiers and Casablanca; Jim House
Part III) Metropolitan Legacies
Chapter 8. Promoting ‘Harmonious Cohabitation’ in the Metropole: The Welfare charity Aide aux Travailleurs d’Outre Mer (1950-1975); Ed Naylor
Chapter 9. Protests Against Shanty-towns in the 1950s and 1960s: Class logics, clientelist relations and ‘colonial redeployments’; Françoise de Barros
Chapter 10. Colonial Legacies: Housing policy and riot prevention strategies in the Minguettes district of Vénissieux; Abdellali Hajjat.

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