At the Border : Margins and Peripheries in Modern France

ISBN-13: 9780708320761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 192 str.

Sharif Gemie; H. Altink

Opis

For decades, France has been considered one of the world s first and most fully formed nation-states providing a global model of state-centered modernity. Events in recent years, however, such as the long-term presence of France s North African population, the growth of Islam as France s second-largest religion, the development of anti-centrist regional movements, and growing debates about French sexual and social identities have endowed the theme of borders with a special resonance in French studies.This exciting interdisciplinary collection presents a series of perspectives on French border identities in the context of globalization, locating border situations in a variety of contexts geographical, social, cultural, and sexual that challenge preconceptions about the centrality of the nation-state as the foundation of contemporary French identity."