More than a Turn? The “Colonial” in French Studies

Saada, Emmanuelle

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“…This special issue contributes to the dialogue between studies of empire and food studies, two expanding and relatively recent fields of scholarly enquiry, by reassessing the understudied and critical role of food and foodstuffs in the ‘long history of globalization’ (2012: 30). In a recent article on the ‘“colonial” in French Studies’, historian Emmanuelle Saâda suggests that understanding ‘the long-term legacy of colonization’ is a central issue that requires the development of an ‘objectified history’, a term she defines by citing sociologist Pierre Bourdieu as ‘history that has crystallised over time in things, machinery, buildings, monuments, books, theories, customs, laws, etc.’ (2014: 37).…”

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Introduction: Colonial culinary encounters and imperial leftovers

Durmelat

2015

French Cultural Studies

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This introductory article reassesses the understudied and critical role of food in French (post) colonial studies. Through the examples of Banania and the French 'gastronomic civilising mission', it investigates the links between the development of new tastes and the establishment, success, maintenance and limits of empire, both abroad and at home. This special issue, entitled 'Food and the French Empire', shows that the production, circulation, preparation and consumption of food shaped and were shaped by imperial ideologies and forms of domination. Conversely, food circulation tangibly delineates variations within and across empires, as well as the limitations and long-term ramifications of imperialism as an ideology and enterprise. The special issue encompasses specific foodstuffs, cuisines and food practices from early empire to post-immigration, across the French colonial empire. It shows the persistent relevance of colonial alimentary exploitation to the understanding of contemporary, global food systems.

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Introduction: Colonial culinary encounters and imperial leftovers

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2015

French Cultural Studies

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“…69 For scholars with postcolonial interests in the Modern Languages field, this means either the increasingly apparent and active engagement with other language traditions (for example, specialists of Maghrebi literatures in French engaging with material in Arabic or Caribbeanists ensuring that their study of literatures in the major European languages is complemented by work on cultural production in Creole), or it signals, at the very least, the need for an awareness of the potential shortcomings and blind spots of an approach -engaging for instance exclusively with Hispano phone and Francophone works -that, whilst no longer strictly 'monolingual', investigates only works in the traditional Romance languages. 70 Laurent Dubois and Achille Mbembe make this point firmly in the context of an article rethinking the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' studies and the linguistic bases of any reinvented form of the field:…”

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Beyond Francophone postcolonial studies: exploring the ends of comparison

Forsdick

2015

Modern Languages Open

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ostcolonial studies has the potential to assemble new communities and networks of people who are joined by the common political and ethical commitment to challenging and questioning the practices and consequences of domination and subordination. Anyone can do it. We all come to things from our own positions, of course, and we are each of us enabled and blinkered by the location of our standpoint; but we all have something to learn from, and contribute to, postcolonial studies. 1 Postcolonial studies is inherently comparative. The institutionalization of postcolonial studies in places like the US, UK and Australia, with all its Anglophone emphasis, often ends up erasing postcoloniality's comparative dimensions. But a course on postcolonial literature taught in an English department can read Aimé Césaire's uncompromising theoretical and biographical engagement with colonialism and imperialism and show how francophone postcolonial studies resonates and differs from an Anglophone model that starts with Edward Said's Orientalism. That same course could juxtapose Caribbean writers like

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“…However, recently, interest in critical race studies and a so-called colonial turn in France have been gaining ground (Mack, 2021;Saada, 2014;Fassin and Fassin, 2013). Critical researchers on race in France have argued that French republican universalism has always coexisted with colonialism: the ideal of republican universalism was made possible through geographical particularism that renders the explicit mentioning of race invisible (Stovall and Van den Abbeele, 2003;Cooper, 2009;Zevounou, 2021b).…”

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“…Anxieties expressed about the deviant and excessive sexuality of racialized men were used to justify such anti-immigrant rhetoric (Shepard, 2012, 2018). At the time, the French government was enforcing a relatively open immigration regime because the economy required cheap, temporary, male migrant labour (Weil, 1995; Sayad, 1980; Sayad, 1997). In this context, prostitution became a central discursive and regulatory issue that mitigated and articulated these anxieties.…”

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Policing Commercial Sex in 1970s France: Regulating the Racialized Sexual Order

Franco

2022

Social & Legal Studies

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Based on multi-sited archival research, this article examines the racialized regulation of commercial sex in 1970s France, and whether and how this was intertwined with the protection of a racialized, gendered, and class-based sexual order. In doing so, this article contributes to a contextualized and historicized analysis of the construction of race and colour-blindness in French legislation and law enforcement. During and after the Algerian War, colonial anxieties about sexual threats posed by North African male labour migrants in the French metropole played a role in the discussion on commercial sex and motivated politicians, policymakers and journalists to argue for its selective tolerance. The author argues that the indirect legislation on commercial sex granted discretionary power to the police to protect the sexual order through colourblind justifications. This enabled law enforcement to implement and enforce universalist legislation ‘from below’ in a racially particularistic way.

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More than a Turn? The “Colonial” in French Studies

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Introduction: Colonial culinary encounters and imperial leftovers

Introduction: Colonial culinary encounters and imperial leftovers

Beyond Francophone postcolonial studies: exploring the ends of comparison

Policing Commercial Sex in 1970s France: Regulating the Racialized Sexual Order

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