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France and the Mediterranean

International Relations, Culture and Politics

by Emmanuel Godin (Volume editor) Natalya Vince (Volume editor)
©2012 Edited Collection XVII, 354 Pages
Series: Modern French Identities, Volume 86

Summary

This multidisciplinary edited volume examines wide-ranging exchanges between France and its Mediterranean neighbours and their impact. It questions the changing notion of a Mediterranean space and its representation, centrality and relevance in terms of France’s international relations under Sarkozy’s presidency, from the launch of the Union for the Mediterranean and its complex articulations with the European Union’s own agenda in the region, to the tortuous relations with Libya, made even more complicated by the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’. Beyond the realm of state relations and formal policy networks, the volume examines the crucial role played by diasporas, the interplay between postcolonial and transnational representations in the fields of cultural diplomacy, cinema and architecture, and considers how these can produce merged or hybrid identities. Later in the collection, the politics of ethnicity in post-war France, the interplay between negative perceptions of Islam and the changing memory of the Algerian War, and the evolution of Franco-Algerian relations since 1962 are used to question the weight of the colonial past when analysing the relations between France and North Africa.

Details

Pages
XVII, 354
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035302752
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034302289
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0275-2
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (April)
Keywords
cinema architecture ethnicity
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012. XVIII, 354 pp., 5 b/w ill.

Biographical notes

Emmanuel Godin (Volume editor) Natalya Vince (Volume editor)

Emmanuel Godin is Principal Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Portsmouth. Natalya Vince is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Portsmouth.

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