The “Indigènes de la République” and political mobilization strategies in postcolonial France
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Data de Publicação: | 2010 |
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Resumo: | I discuss the debate on the controversial petition “Nous sommes les Indigènes de la République!” (We are the Indigenous of the Republic) published in 2005 by a group of intellectuals and activists working in the field of immigration issues in France. It critically scrutinizes the idea that the petition could be understood as a new political mobilization strategy emphasizing ethnic, religious or racial differences. While recognizing the salience of this argument, I address its implicit conclusions concerning the supposedly depoliticizing and essentializing consequences of such a move. Placing the petition in its historical context and analysing its content, I contend that, referring to colonial regimes of segregation, the self-identification “indigenes” fundamentally concerns the denial of full citizen’s rights through religious, ethnic or racial categories rather than the entrenching of difference. Drawing parallels with a dominant trend in the appraisal of post-colonial studies in France, I conclude that academic thought on the petition reflects a general tendency of failing to come to terms with difference without falling back on an opposition between political universalism and apolitical communitarianism. |
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The “Indigènes de la République” and political mobilization strategies in postcolonial France |
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The “Indigènes de la République” and political mobilization strategies in postcolonial France |
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The “Indigènes de la République” and political mobilization strategies in postcolonial France Zobel, Clemens Indigènes de la République Postcolonialism Republicanism Immigration Political mobilization Identity |
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The “Indigènes de la République” and political mobilization strategies in postcolonial France |
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The “Indigènes de la République” and political mobilization strategies in postcolonial France |
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The “Indigènes de la République” and political mobilization strategies in postcolonial France |
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The “Indigènes de la République” and political mobilization strategies in postcolonial France |
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The “Indigènes de la République” and political mobilization strategies in postcolonial France |
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Zobel, Clemens |
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Zobel, Clemens |
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Zobel, Clemens |
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Indigènes de la République Postcolonialism Republicanism Immigration Political mobilization Identity |
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Indigènes de la République Postcolonialism Republicanism Immigration Political mobilization Identity |
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I discuss the debate on the controversial petition “Nous sommes les Indigènes de la République!” (We are the Indigenous of the Republic) published in 2005 by a group of intellectuals and activists working in the field of immigration issues in France. It critically scrutinizes the idea that the petition could be understood as a new political mobilization strategy emphasizing ethnic, religious or racial differences. While recognizing the salience of this argument, I address its implicit conclusions concerning the supposedly depoliticizing and essentializing consequences of such a move. Placing the petition in its historical context and analysing its content, I contend that, referring to colonial regimes of segregation, the self-identification “indigenes” fundamentally concerns the denial of full citizen’s rights through religious, ethnic or racial categories rather than the entrenching of difference. Drawing parallels with a dominant trend in the appraisal of post-colonial studies in France, I conclude that academic thought on the petition reflects a general tendency of failing to come to terms with difference without falling back on an opposition between political universalism and apolitical communitarianism. |
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