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France's Modernising Mission

Part of the St Antony's Series Book Series

Editors: Naylor, Ed

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55133-7

ISBN: 978-1-137-55132-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 13, 2017

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Conflicting Modernities: Battles Over France’s Policy of Adapted Education in French West Africa

Chafer, Tony

Pages: 3 –30

[From the outset, the public education system in French West Africa was designed to meet a number of objectives: to consolidate French influence by establishing a network of elementary schools throughout the colony; to ensure that the education given to Africans was appropriate to their...
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Institutional Terra Non Firma: Representative Democracy and the Chieftaincy in French West Africa

Fink, Liz

Pages: 31 –57

[This chapter examines the collision between the so-called ‘traditional’ African chieftaincy, the practical and ideological cornerstone of pre-war colonialism in French West Africa, and the post-war expansion of African electoral democracy. The Fourth Republic enacted far-reaching reforms in an...
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Decolonisation Without Independence? Breaking with the Colonial in New Caledonia (1946–1975)

Trépied, Benoît

Pages: 59 –84

[A settler colony which has remained under French sovereignty, New Caledonia was integrated into the French Union in 1946 before joining the generic category of ‘Overseas territory’ under the Vth Republic. Throughout this period, local political leaders made various attempts to overcome the...
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Rule of Experts? Governing Modernisation in Late Colonial French Africa

McDougall, James

Pages: 87 –108

[African and Middle Eastern territories and societies were often the testing grounds for European ideas about modernity, progress and rationality; at the same time the proponents of these ideas worked assiduously to deny Asian and African societies any possibility of autonomous agency in the...
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From Tent to Village Regroupement: The Colonial State and Social Engineering of Rural Space, 1843–1962

MacMaster, Neil

Pages: 109 –131

[Following the conquest of Algeria the colonial state sought to force tent-dwelling populations to settle in fixed villages so that nomads could be better policed, registered and assimilated into a model of civilisation based on the metropolitan French commune. This chapter traces the ideological...
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Shantytowns and Rehousing in Late Colonial Algiers and Casablanca

House, Jim

Pages: 133 –163

[This chapter takes a comparative approach to examine shantytowns and rehousing policies in Algiers and Casablanca, both of which became ‘welfare arenas’ in the final decades of colonial rule. Welfare, however, was rarely the sole factor driving policy: security and public health concerns were...
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Promoting ‘Harmonious Cohabitation’ in the Metropole: The Welfare Charity Aide Aux Travailleurs D’Outre Mer (1950–1975)

Naylor, Ed

Pages: 167 –197

[This chapter explores the metropolitan dimension of France’s post-war ‘modernising mission’ and its afterlife in the years after decolonisation through the example of private welfare charity, Aid to Workers from Overseas (ATOM). Founded in 1950, ATOM specialised in working with colonial migrants...
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Protests Against Shantytowns in the 1950s and 1960s: Class Logics, Clientelist Relations and ‘Colonial Redeployments’

de Barros, Françoise

Pages: 199 –224

[This chapter explores how decolonisation impacted on metropolitan France through a comparative study of local residents’ protests against bidonvilles (shantytowns) at Nanterre and Champigny during the 1950s and 1960s. These two towns in the Paris region lend themselves to a study of colonial...
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Colonial Legacies: Housing Policy and Riot Prevention Strategies in the Minguettes District of Vénissieux

Hajjat, Abdellali

Pages: 225 –250

[The question of ‘colonial legacy’ has been the subject of heated debate within the social sciences in France since the mid-2000s. Disagreement centres on the question of how the colonial past acts upon post-colonial immigration in the present. Formulating an answer requires a fairly precise...

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