Hugh McDonnell
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781383025
- eISBN:
- 9781781384060
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383025.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
In the wake of the Second World War, ideas of Europe abounded. What did Europe mean as a concept, and what did it mean to be European? Europeanising Spaces in Paris, c. 1947-1962 makes the case that ...
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In the wake of the Second World War, ideas of Europe abounded. What did Europe mean as a concept, and what did it mean to be European? Europeanising Spaces in Paris, c. 1947-1962 makes the case that Paris was both a leading and distinctive forum for the expression of these ideas in the post-war period. It examines urban, political and cultural spaces in the French capital in which ideas about Europe were formulated, articulated, exchanged, circulated, and contested during this post-war period, roughly between the escalation of the Cold War and the end of France's war of decolonisation in Algeria. The Parisian café, home and street are each examined in terms of how they were implicated in ideas about Europe. Then, the Paris-based Mouvement socialiste des états unis d'Europe (The Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe) and the far-right wing Fédération des étudiants nationalistes (The Federation of Nationalist Students) are examined as examples of political movements that mobilised around–very different–concepts of Europe. The final section on cultural Europeanising spaces draws attention to the specificities of the Europeanism of exiles from Franco's Spain in Paris; the work of the great scholar of the Arab world, Jacques Berque, in the context of his understanding of the Mediterranean world; and finally, the work of the legendary photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, by looking at the capacities and limitations of the photographic medium for the representation of Europe, and how these corresponded with Cartier-Bresson’s commitments.Less
In the wake of the Second World War, ideas of Europe abounded. What did Europe mean as a concept, and what did it mean to be European? Europeanising Spaces in Paris, c. 1947-1962 makes the case that Paris was both a leading and distinctive forum for the expression of these ideas in the post-war period. It examines urban, political and cultural spaces in the French capital in which ideas about Europe were formulated, articulated, exchanged, circulated, and contested during this post-war period, roughly between the escalation of the Cold War and the end of France's war of decolonisation in Algeria. The Parisian café, home and street are each examined in terms of how they were implicated in ideas about Europe. Then, the Paris-based Mouvement socialiste des états unis d'Europe (The Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe) and the far-right wing Fédération des étudiants nationalistes (The Federation of Nationalist Students) are examined as examples of political movements that mobilised around–very different–concepts of Europe. The final section on cultural Europeanising spaces draws attention to the specificities of the Europeanism of exiles from Franco's Spain in Paris; the work of the great scholar of the Arab world, Jacques Berque, in the context of his understanding of the Mediterranean world; and finally, the work of the legendary photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, by looking at the capacities and limitations of the photographic medium for the representation of Europe, and how these corresponded with Cartier-Bresson’s commitments.
Di Wang
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501715488
- eISBN:
- 9781501715556
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501715488.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter deals with the microcosm of the teahouse; it describes people’s daily lives in the period from the 1950s to the 1970s under the Communist government, including to what extent people ...
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This chapter deals with the microcosm of the teahouse; it describes people’s daily lives in the period from the 1950s to the 1970s under the Communist government, including to what extent people conducted what I refer to as public lives, and to what extent politics and political movements interfered with that. It was the lowest point for teahouses and public life in Chengdu. The relevant places became politically sensitive, and patrons, workers, and those associated therewith might fear grave repercussions from even the most innocent conversation. However, teahouse life in some ways carried on outside the scope of government control. People continued to gossip and spread “rumors” just as they had for centuries. The teahouse seems to have provided a relief from everyday problems, and could remind people of former ways of life.Less
This chapter deals with the microcosm of the teahouse; it describes people’s daily lives in the period from the 1950s to the 1970s under the Communist government, including to what extent people conducted what I refer to as public lives, and to what extent politics and political movements interfered with that. It was the lowest point for teahouses and public life in Chengdu. The relevant places became politically sensitive, and patrons, workers, and those associated therewith might fear grave repercussions from even the most innocent conversation. However, teahouse life in some ways carried on outside the scope of government control. People continued to gossip and spread “rumors” just as they had for centuries. The teahouse seems to have provided a relief from everyday problems, and could remind people of former ways of life.
Kumarini Silva
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781517900021
- eISBN:
- 9781452955179
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517900021.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The fourth chapter discusses the broad fabric that makes up the tenuous relationship between Black and Brown in post- 9/11 American culture and how its shift to identification intersects with ...
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The fourth chapter discusses the broad fabric that makes up the tenuous relationship between Black and Brown in post- 9/11 American culture and how its shift to identification intersects with historical race policies and politics. Through an analysis of popular culture (like the TV show Blackish) and political interventions, the chapter question what the racialized pathologies and medications of post-9/11 anxiety means to the Black-White binary that is often the popular historicized approach to race in the United States. Despite the attempts to educate the general public about the ways in which explicit and implicit violence impacts communities across the country, it has been unable to quell what seems to be a rising tide of increased and systematic violence against African Americans.Less
The fourth chapter discusses the broad fabric that makes up the tenuous relationship between Black and Brown in post- 9/11 American culture and how its shift to identification intersects with historical race policies and politics. Through an analysis of popular culture (like the TV show Blackish) and political interventions, the chapter question what the racialized pathologies and medications of post-9/11 anxiety means to the Black-White binary that is often the popular historicized approach to race in the United States. Despite the attempts to educate the general public about the ways in which explicit and implicit violence impacts communities across the country, it has been unable to quell what seems to be a rising tide of increased and systematic violence against African Americans.
