La « Fée électricité » à l'Exposition coloniale de Paris (1931)

Hodeir, Catherine

doi:10.3406/outre.2002.3924

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“…An important moment in this process of assimilating the Paracel and Spratly archipelagos was their visual integration within the mapped space of Indochina. In many ways, the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris can be seen as the apogee of Western, and particularly French colonialism (Hodeir 1991;P. Morton 2000).…”

Section: Inscribing the Archipelagos On An Indochinese Mapmentioning

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Absent Maps, Marine Science, and the Reimagination of the South China Sea, 1922–1939

Sasges¹

2015

J of Asian Stud

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Today, seven nations have maritime or island claims in the disputed South China Sea. This article historicizes the claims of one of the dispute's participants, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It argues that cartographic representations of its territory have their origin in the period of French rule, and locates a key moment in the formation of an Indochinese—and later Vietnamese—space encompassing the South China Sea in a series of four maps that represented research carried out by the colonial Institute of Oceanography. By recreating the biographies of these maps, the article reveals their origin in a contingent interplay of multiple factors, including global scientific networks, economic development, imperial defense, and personal research agendas. The article suggests that attention to the biographies of maps could be an effective means of deconstructing and denaturalizing many of the territorial claims that drive the dispute in the South China Sea today.

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Section: Inscribing the Archipelagos On An Indochinese Mapmentioning

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Absent Maps, Marine Science, and the Reimagination of the South China Sea, 1922–1939

Sasges¹

2015

J of Asian Stud

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“…In an article by Lesbats in Le Populaire on 27 April 1931, previewing the upcoming exhibition and denouncing the ‘intolérables abus des administrations coloniales au suffrage universel’ in the colonies not mentioned in the pomp and display of the Exposition , the reader was reminded of ‘l’affaire Galmot, les horreurs du Viet-Nam, les pages émues d’André Gide sur le Congo’ (1931: 2), but this protest was very much the exception. 8 Meanwhile, the commissaire of the Guiana pavilion at the Exposition was anxious that the image of the country be rescued from the popular stereotype of the ‘sauvage guyanais à demi-civilisé’ (Hodeir, 2011: 1). The Nantes trial of 1931 was important for acquitting 14 Guianese who protested for their rights as citizens.…”

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L’affaire Galmot: Colonialism on trial in 1931

Marsh

2015

French Cultural Studies

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Between 9 March and 21 March 1931 12 men and two women, all French citizens from French Guiana, were put on trial at an extraordinary session of the cour d'assises in Nantes. All were accused of looting and murder during riots which had taken place on 6 and 7 August 1928 in Cayenne; all were acquitted. Despite being one of the biggest trials of the interwar period in France, the event was largely forgotten until a major exhibition staged in Nantes in 2011. Examining the public reaction to the trial in 1931, this article has two key aims. First, it will explore attitudes towards colonialism and republicanism in the provinces and metropolitan France. Second, it will use the exhibition of 2011 as a means of addressing the memorial debate to show how such recoveries of forgotten events, however laudable and necessary, risk perpetuating an image of an idealised republicanism based upon universalism.

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“…The available literature on the exhibition of 1931 is very abundant. A very brief selection of titles could include the following: Ageron (1984), Blévis et al (2008), Exposition Coloniale (2006), Hodeir andPierre (1991), L' Estoile (2007), Lebovics (2008) and Morton (2000). 15.…”

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Human Zoos or Ethnic Shows? Essence and contingency in <i>Living</i> Ethnological Exhibitons

Gómez¹

2013

Cult. Hist. Digit. J.

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The aim of this article is to study the living ethnological exhibitions. The main feature of these multiform varieties of public show, which became widespread in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe and the United States, was the live presence of individuals who were considered "primitive". Whilst these native peoples sometimes gave demonstrations of their skills or produced manufactures for the audience, more often their role was simply as exhibits, to display their bodies and gestures, their different and singular condition. In this article, the three main forms of modern ethnic show (commercial, colonial and missionary) will be presented, together with a warning about the inadequacy of categorising all such spectacles under the label of "human zoos", a term which has become common in both academic and media circles in recent years.

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La « Fée électricité » à l'Exposition coloniale de Paris (1931)

Cited by 7 publications

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Absent Maps, Marine Science, and the Reimagination of the South China Sea, 1922–1939

Absent Maps, Marine Science, and the Reimagination of the South China Sea, 1922–1939

L’affaire Galmot: Colonialism on trial in 1931

Human Zoos or Ethnic Shows? Essence and contingency in <i>Living</i> Ethnological Exhibitons

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