France's Modernising Mission Citizenship, Welfare and the Ends of Empire /
This volume explores how France's 'modernising mission' unfolded during the post-war period and its reverberations in the decades after empire. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France sought to reinvent its empire by transforming the traditional 'civilising mission'...
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Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction; Ed Naylor
- Part I) Rethinking Education and Citizenship
- Chapter 2. Conflicting Modernities: Battles over France's policy of adapted education in French West Africa; Tony Chafer
- Chapter 3. Institutional Terra Non Firma: Representative democracy and the chieftaincy in French West Africa; Liz Fink
- Chapter 4. Decolonisation Without Independence? Breaking with the colonial in New Caledonia (1946-1975); Benoît Trépied.-Part II) Mental Maps and the Territory
- Chapter 5. Rule of Experts? Governing modernisation in late colonial French Africa; James McDougall
- Chapter 6. From Tent to Village regroupement: The Colonial state and social engineering of rural space, 1843 to 1962; Neil MacMaster
- Chapter 7. Shantytowns and Re-housing in Late Colonial Algiers and Casablanca; Jim House
- Part III) Metropolitan Legacies
- Chapter 8. Promoting 'Harmonious Cohabitation' in the Metropole: The Welfare charity Aide aux Travailleurs d'Outre Mer (1950-1975); Ed Naylor
- Chapter 9. Protests Against Shanty-towns in the 1950s and 1960s: Class logics, clientelist relations and 'colonial redeployments'; Françoise de Barros
- Chapter 10. Colonial Legacies: Housing policy and riot prevention strategies in the Minguettes district of Vénissieux; Abdellali Hajjat.
