The Neoliberal Republi c traces the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private ...sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the rise of neoliberalism over the past three decades. Based on interviews with dozens of public officials in France and a unique biographical database of more than 200 civil-servants-turned-corporate- lawyers, The Neoliberal Republic explores how the always-blurred boundary between public service and private interests has been critically compromised, enabling the transformation of the regulatory state into either an ineffectual bystander or an active collaborator in the privatization of public welfare. The cumulative effect of these developments, the authors reveal, undermines democratic citizenship and the capacity to imagine the public good.
Young subjects Gossard, Julia M
Young subjects,
2021, 20210315, 2021, 2021-03-15, Volume:
3, 3.
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"Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and ...imperial expansion efforts. Young Subjects explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing their role as active and vital agents in the shaping of early modern France. Through a set of regional case studies, Julia M. Gossard demonstrates how thousands of children and youth were engaged in the service of the state. In Lyon, charity schools cultivated children as agents of moral and social reform who carried their lessons home to their families. In Paris, orphaned and imprisoned youth trained in skilled trades or prepared for military service, while others were sent to the French colonies in North America as filles du roi and sturdy labourers. Young people from merchant families were recruited to serve as cultural brokers and translators on behalf of French commerical interests in the Ottoman Empire and Siam. In each case, Gossard considers how these youth played, negotiated, and sometimes resisted their roles, and what expressions of individual identity and agency were available to subjects under the legal control of others. As sources of labour, future taxpayers, colonial subjects, cultural mediators, and potential criminals, children and youth were objects of intense interest for civic authorities. Young Subjects refocuses our attention on these often overlooked historical subjects who helped to build France."--
Contracting states Cooley, Alexander; Spruyt, Hendrik
2009., 20090420, 2009, 2009-04-20, 20090101
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Increasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the cession of authority incomplete or vague. ...But until now, we have known surprisingly little about how international actors design and implement these mixed-sovereignty arrangements.Contracting Statesuses the concept of "incomplete contracts"--agreements that are intentionally ambiguous and subject to future renegotiation--to explain how states divide and transfer their sovereign territory and functions, and demonstrate why some of these arrangements offer stable and lasting solutions while others ultimately collapse.
Building on important advances in economics and law, Alexander Cooley and Hendrik Spruyt develop a highly original, interdisciplinary approach and apply it to a broad range of cases involving international sovereign political integration and disintegration. The authors reveal the importance of incomplete contracting in the decolonization of territories once held by Europe and the Soviet Union; U.S. overseas military basing agreements with host countries; and in regional economic-integration agreements such as the European Union. Cooley and Spruyt examine contemporary problems such as the Arab-Israeli dispute over water resources, and show why the international community inadequately prepared for Kosovo's independence.
Contracting Statesprovides guidance to international policymakers about how states with equally legitimate claims on the same territory or asset can create flexible, durable solutions and avoid violent conflict.
Hostages of Empire combines a social history of colonial
prisoner-of-war experiences with a broader analysis of their role
in Vichy's political tensions with the country's German occupiers.
The ...colonial prisoners of war came from across the French Empire,
they fought in the Battle for France in 1940, and they were
captured by the German Army. Unlike their French counterparts, who
were taken to Germany, the colonial POWs were interned in camps
called Frontstalags throughout occupied France. This
decision to keep colonial POWs in France defined not only their
experience of captivity but also how the French and German
authorities reacted to them. Hostages of Empire examines
how the entanglement of French national pride after the 1940 defeat
and the need for increased imperial control shaped the experiences
of 85,000 soldiers in German captivity. Sarah Ann Frank analyzes
the nature of Vichy's imperial commitments and collaboration with
its German occupiers and argues that the Vichy regime actively
improved conditions of captivity for colonial prisoners in an
attempt to secure their present and future loyalty. This French
"magnanimity" toward the colonial prisoners was part of a broader
framework of racial difference and hierarchy. As such, the
relatively dignified treatment of colonial prisoners must be viewed
as a paradox in light of Vichy and Free French racism in the
colonies and the Vichy regime's complicity in the Holocaust.
Hostages of Empire seeks to reconcile two previously
rather distinct histories: that of metropolitan France and that of
the French colonies during World War II.
Staging Civilization Markovits, Rahul; Todd, Jane Marie; Bell, David A
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The book ultimately offers a revisionist account of the traditional Europe française thesis, engaging topics such as transnational labor history, early-modern court culture and republicanism, soft ...power, and cultural imperialism.
The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière
hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The
hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation,
pointing ...not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the
unstable position of her spectator. Hysteria in
Performance sets out to uncover what kind of performance the
hysterical attack is, as well as the nature of hysteria in and as
performance as it occurred at Salpêtrière. The Salpêtrière
documents undeniably show the gravity of the institutional violence
committed against its female patients. Using the lenses of
performance studies and performance theory, Jenn Cole expresses the
overt and subtle damages done to hysterical women in Jean-Martin
Charcot's hospital, drawing attention to the hysteric's resistance
to these experiences: it is often simply by being herself that the
hysteric points to the inherent weaknesses in these systemic modes
of violence. In Hysteria in Performance , the hysteric
becomes a figure who represents possibilities for ethical
encounters within performance and everyday living. Revealing the
fraught and exciting nature of theatrical representation, and
continually drawing out the dilemmas and unexpected dynamics of
witnessing the suffering of others, this groundbreaking study
explores how Charcot's findings on hysteria produced a unique
mixture of theatre and science that still has unexpected things to
teach us.
The collection includes new translations of
Tocqueville's works, including the first English translation of his
Second Memoir , the original Memoir , a letter
fragment considering pauperism in ...Normandy, and the ''Pauperism in
America'' index to the Penitentiary Report.
Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the most important thinkers of
the nineteenth century, and his thought continues to influence
contemporary political and social discourse. In Memoirs on
Pauperism and Other Writings , Christine Dunn Henderson brings
all of Tocqueville's writings on poverty together for the first
time: a new translation of his original Memoir and the
first English translation of his unfinished Second Memoir ,
as well as his letter considering pauperism in Normandy and the
''Pauperism in America'' appendix to his Penitentiary
Report . By uniting these texts in a single volume, Henderson
makes possible a deeper exploration of Tocqueville's thought as it
pertains to questions of inequality and public assistance. As
Henderson shows in her introduction to this collection, Tocqueville
provides no easy blueprint for fixing these problems, which remain
pressing today. Still, Tocqueville's writings speak eloquently
about these issues, and his own unsuccessful struggle to find
solutions remains both a spur to creative thinking today and a
caution against attempting to find simplistic remedies.
Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings allows us to
study his sustained thought on pauperism, poverty assistance,
governmental assistance programs, and social inequality in a new
and deeper way. The insights in these works are important not only
for what they tell us about Tocqueville but also for how they help
us to think about contemporary social challenges. This collection
will be essential not only to students and scholars of
Tocqueville's thought, nineteenth-century France, and political
economy, but also to all those interested in the issues of public
assistance, associative life, voluntary associations, and
charities.
After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of ...twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization.
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