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Title: | The “Indigènes de la République” and political mobilization strategies in postcolonial France | Authors: | Zobel, Clemens | Keywords: | Indigènes de la République; Postcolonialism; Republicanism; Immigration; Political mobilization; Identity | Issue Date: | 2010 | Publisher: | Centro de Estudos Sociais | Serial title, monograph or event: | e-cadernos CES | Issue: | 07 | Place of publication or event: | Coimbra | Abstract: | 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. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/36166 | ISSN: | 1647-0737 | DOI: | 10.4000/eces.390 10.4000/eces.390 |
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Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Nacionais |
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