The Sex and Race of Satire: Charlie Hebdo and the Politics of Representation in Contemporary France

Sanos, Sandrine

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“…Sandrine Sanos, for example, observed that "paying attention to Charlie Hebdo's sexual and racial politics illuminates how contemporary French political discourse marks some bodies as inassimilable to the French nation." (Sanos 2018). Others have argued that reactions to the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo were motivated by a desire to reaffirm the dominance of Enlightenment-and thus Western-values.…”

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Caricatures, Canards, and Guignols: Satirical Journalism in France from the French Revolution to Fifth Republic

Fraser

2024

Journalism and Media

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The special status of satire in France is examined historically from the French Revolution to the Fifth Republic. It is argued that satire in France functions with a normative reference to the secular, universalist Jacobin values (hostile to church, aristocracy, and monarchy) that underpinned the foundation of the French Republic. Since the French Revolution, French journalistic satire has, in different ways, perpetrated what can broadly be categorized as either lèse majesté or blasphemy. Given France’s turbulent history over the past two centuries, satire has frequently been used as an instrument to reaffirm the Republic’s values vis-à-vis authoritarian regimes with different characteristics. The symbolic connection between satire and the French Republic’s founding mythology has conferred upon the idiom a special status that endures today. The Fifth Republic, however, has presented a unique challenge to satire because of its authoritarian institutional character with personal power in the hands of the head-of-state. Three case studies are examined: the newspapers Le Canard Enchaîné and Charlie Hebdo and the satirical television program Les Guignols de l’Info. Today satire has found expression on online social networks in the form of memes, gifs, and videos. This marks a shift from satire produced by journalistic elites to more diffused and socially distributed satirical mockery.

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Caricatures, Canards, and Guignols: Satirical Journalism in France from the French Revolution to Fifth Republic

Fraser

2024

Journalism and Media

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“…For them, willingness to celebrate – not just tolerate – religious offence became a marker of liberal, secular citizenship (Larsen, 2014). Thus, after the Charlie Hebdo murders, the magazine was held up not only as proof of France’s liberal order but also as the embodiment of French values (Sanos, 2018; Toor, 2016). French citizens were pressured to show solidarity with the ‘Je Suis Charlie’ movement; this became a test of Muslims’ assimilation into France’s secular humanist order (Keane, 2015).…”

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Performative censorship: Why some free speech conflicts should be taken seriously but not literally

George

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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In some speech-related disputes, censors do not gauge their success by whether the challenged cultural product or practice has been suppressed in accordance with their explicit demands. This article proposes a theory of performative censorship that can help explain this paradox. Building on the concepts of expressive laws and symbolic crusades from legal studies and social movement studies respectively, performative censorship disputes are defined as contentious episodes in which demands for or against speech regulation are expressed partly for the broader objective of gaining recognition for a group’s way of life, dignity or status. Case studies of two highly contentious conflicts are offered: over Confederate statues in the United States and cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. The case studies show that movements’ goals and tactics are neither uniform nor static, making them more complex but also presenting opportunities for de-escalation.

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Hérubel¹

2020

French Historical Studies

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The Sex and Race of Satire: Charlie Hebdo and the Politics of Representation in Contemporary France

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Caricatures, Canards, and Guignols: Satirical Journalism in France from the French Revolution to Fifth Republic

Caricatures, Canards, and Guignols: Satirical Journalism in France from the French Revolution to Fifth Republic

Performative censorship: Why some free speech conflicts should be taken seriously but not literally

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