Conflicts of memory: republicanism and the commemoration of the past in modern France
Identifieur interne : 000045 ( Main/Exploration ); précédent : 000044; suivant : 000046Conflicts of memory: republicanism and the commemoration of the past in modern France
Auteurs : Sudhir Hazareesingh [Royaume-Uni]Source :
- French History [ 0269-1191 ] ; 2009-06.
Abstract
The question of how State institutions should commemorate the past has generated considerable public controversy. Recent polemics point to the dilemma which political elites have grappled with since the Revolution: what content to give to the nation's ‘civil religion’ and which specific set of historical and ideological values should be collectively celebrated. Since its emergence after 1870, the Republic has sought to create a consensus in France through the sheer power of its commemorative force. Focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this article will delve deeper into the complexities of modern republican collective memory. It will be argued that this memory needs to be understood in the context of its dialectical relationship with the memory of the democratic struggles of the French Left after 1871. The article touches on four interrelated themes: first, the ongoing debates about the heuristic value of the memory ‘label’; second, the strengths and dissonances of republican collective memory in the century that followed the French Revolution; third, the tension between republicanism and democracy in France, and how this was played out in the arena of the nation's civil religion in the early decades of the Third Republic; and finally, the continuing reflection of these divisions in contemporary French political culture.
Url:
DOI: 10.1093/fh/crp008
Affiliations:
Links toward previous steps (curation, corpus...)
Le document en format XML
<record><TEI wicri:istexFullTextTei="biblStruct"><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title>Conflicts of memory: republicanism and the commemoration of the past in modern France</title><author wicri:is="90%"><name sortKey="Hazareesingh, Sudhir" sort="Hazareesingh, Sudhir" uniqKey="Hazareesingh S" first="Sudhir" last="Hazareesingh">Sudhir Hazareesingh</name></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">ISTEX</idno><idno type="RBID">ISTEX:52CD1E1948B5A806AFC84C352C5184C1FC2CED81</idno><date when="2009" year="2009">2009</date><idno type="doi">10.1093/fh/crp008</idno><idno type="url">https://api.istex.fr/document/52CD1E1948B5A806AFC84C352C5184C1FC2CED81/fulltext/pdf</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Istex/Corpus">000753</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Istex" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="ISTEX">000753</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Curation">000741</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Exploration">000045</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Main" wicri:step="Exploration">000045</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title level="a">Conflicts of memory: republicanism and the commemoration of the past in modern France</title><author wicri:is="90%"><name sortKey="Hazareesingh, Sudhir" sort="Hazareesingh, Sudhir" uniqKey="Hazareesingh S" first="Sudhir" last="Hazareesingh">Sudhir Hazareesingh</name><affiliation wicri:level="3"><country wicri:rule="url">Royaume-Uni</country><wicri:regionArea>The author is fellow and tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford</wicri:regionArea><placeName><settlement type="city">Oxford</settlement><region type="country">Angleterre</region><region type="comté" nuts="2">Oxfordshire</region></placeName></affiliation></author></analytic><monogr></monogr><series><title level="j">French History</title><idno type="ISSN">0269-1191</idno><idno type="eISSN">1477-4542</idno><imprint><publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher><date type="published" when="2009-06">2009-06</date><biblScope unit="volume">23</biblScope><biblScope unit="issue">2</biblScope><biblScope unit="page" from="193">193</biblScope><biblScope unit="page" to="215">215</biblScope></imprint><idno type="ISSN">0269-1191</idno></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc><seriesStmt><idno type="ISSN">0269-1191</idno></seriesStmt></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract">The question of how State institutions should commemorate the past has generated considerable public controversy. Recent polemics point to the dilemma which political elites have grappled with since the Revolution: what content to give to the nation's ‘civil religion’ and which specific set of historical and ideological values should be collectively celebrated. Since its emergence after 1870, the Republic has sought to create a consensus in France through the sheer power of its commemorative force. Focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this article will delve deeper into the complexities of modern republican collective memory. It will be argued that this memory needs to be understood in the context of its dialectical relationship with the memory of the democratic struggles of the French Left after 1871. The article touches on four interrelated themes: first, the ongoing debates about the heuristic value of the memory ‘label’; second, the strengths and dissonances of republican collective memory in the century that followed the French Revolution; third, the tension between republicanism and democracy in France, and how this was played out in the arena of the nation's civil religion in the early decades of the Third Republic; and finally, the continuing reflection of these divisions in contemporary French political culture.</div></front></TEI><affiliations><list><country><li>Royaume-Uni</li></country><region><li>Angleterre</li><li>Oxfordshire</li></region><settlement><li>Oxford</li></settlement></list><tree><country name="Royaume-Uni"><region name="Angleterre"><name sortKey="Hazareesingh, Sudhir" sort="Hazareesingh, Sudhir" uniqKey="Hazareesingh S" first="Sudhir" last="Hazareesingh">Sudhir Hazareesingh</name></region></country></tree></affiliations></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
EXPLOR_STEP=$WICRI_ROOT/Wicri/Musique/explor/DiesIraeV1/Data/Main/Exploration
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_STEP/biblio.hfd -nk 000045 | SxmlIndent | more
Ou
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_AREA/Data/Main/Exploration/biblio.hfd -nk 000045 | SxmlIndent | more
Pour mettre un lien sur cette page dans le réseau Wicri
{{Explor lien
|wiki= Wicri/Musique
|area= DiesIraeV1
|flux= Main
|étape= Exploration
|type= RBID
|clé= ISTEX:52CD1E1948B5A806AFC84C352C5184C1FC2CED81
|texte= Conflicts of memory: republicanism and the commemoration of the past in modern France
}}
| This area was generated with Dilib version V0.6.33. |  |