The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture
Routledge International Handbooks Series

The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture provides a detailed survey of the highly differentiated field of research on French politics, society and culture across the social sciences and humanities.

The handbook includes contributions from the most eminent authors in their respective fields who bring their authority to bear on the task of outlining the current state-of-the art research in French Studies across disciplinary boundaries. As such, it represents an innovative as well as an authoritative survey of the field, representing an opportunity for a critical examination of the contrasts and the continuities in methodological and disciplinary orientations in a single volume.

The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture will be essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners involved in, and actively concerned about, research on French politics, society and culture.

Introduction: French Politics and Culture in the Macron Era Part I: Politics in Modern and Contemporary France 1. From Despair, to Hope, to Limbo: The French Elections and the Future of the Republic 2. The French Party Political System 3. Gaullism as a Doctrine and Political Movement 4. France and the World: The African Dimension 5. Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Politics Part II: Identification and Belonging 6. The Politics of Migration 7. The Political Transversality of Islamophobia: An Analysis of Historical and Ideological Foundations 8. The new Politics of Racialisation in France: The Roma, Territorialisation and Mobility 9. Youth and Politics in France: Democratic Deficit or New Model of Citizenship? 10. Anti-racism, Race and the Republic in Contemporary France Part III: Spaces of Political and Cultural Contestation 11. La France dans la Rue 12. The French ‘Banlieue’: Realities, Myths, Representations 13. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: ‘Banlieue Youth’ as Figure of Speech and as Speaking Figures 14. Night-clubs and National Belonging: Malek Boutih’s Solutions for Personal and National Insecurity 15. Local and Social Belonging in the Contemporary French Rural World 16. Gender and Crisis: Women’s Writing in French at the Start of the Twenty-first Century Part IV: Mediating Memories and Cultures 17. Remembering the First World War in France: HGG and Thiepval 18. Waging the War of Words: Propaganda and the Mass Media in Modern France, 1939–2017 19. Cultural Policy: A Weakened Exception? (1959–2016) 20. Popular Music Nostalgia in Contemporary French Media Discourse 21. Media and Contemporary France 22. The Multiple Deaths of the French Intellectuals 23. Jewish Culture in Twenty-first Century France

Marion Demossier is Professor of French and European Studies at the University of Southampton, UK, where she holds a Chair in Social Anthropology.

David Lees is Senior Teaching Fellow in French Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Aurélien Mondon is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath, UK.

Nina Parish is Professor in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Stirling, UK.