Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture</em> provides a detailed survey of the highly differentiated field of research on French politics, society and culture across the social sciences and humanities. </p><p></p><p>The handbook includes contributions from the most eminent authors in their respective fields who bring their authority to bear on the task of outlining the current state-of-the art research in French Studies across disciplinary boundaries. As such, it represents an innovative as well as an authoritative survey of the field, representing an opportunity for a critical examination of the contrasts and the continuities in methodological and disciplinary orientations in a single volume.</p><p></p><p><em>The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture</em> will be essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners involved in, and actively concerned about, research on French politics, society and culture.</p> <p>Introduction: French Politics and Culture in the Macron Era <b>Part I: Politics in Modern and Contemporary France </b>1. From Despair, to Hope, to Limbo: The French Elections and the Future of the Republic 2. The French Party Political System 3. Gaullism as a Doctrine and Political Movement 4. France and the World: The African Dimension 5. Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Politics <strong>Part II: Identification and Belonging </strong>6. The Politics of Migration 7. The Political Transversality of Islamophobia: An Analysis of Historical and Ideological Foundations 8. The new Politics of Racialisation in France: The Roma, Territorialisation and Mobility 9. Youth and Politics in France: Democratic Deficit or New Model of Citizenship? 10. Anti-racism, Race and the Republic in Contemporary France <b>Part III: Spaces of Political and Cultural Contestation </b>11. La France dans la Rue 12. The French ‘Banlieue’: Realities, Myths, Representations 13. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: ‘Banlieue Youth’ as Figure of Speech and as Speaking Figures 14. Night-clubs and National Belonging: Malek Boutih’s Solutions for Personal and National Insecurity 15. Local and Social Belonging in the Contemporary French Rural World 16. Gender and Crisis: Women’s Writing in French at the Start of the Twenty-first Century <b>Part IV: Mediating Memories and Cultures </b>17. Remembering the First World War in France: HGG and Thiepval 18. Waging the War of Words: Propaganda and the Mass Media in Modern France, 1939–2017 19. Cultural Policy: A Weakened Exception? (1959–2016) 20. Popular Music Nostalgia in Contemporary French Media Discourse 21. Media and Contemporary France 22. The Multiple Deaths of the French Intellectuals 23. Jewish Culture in Twenty-first Century France</p>