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Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World
This volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural production across the Francophone world from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within engages with a different aspect of Marsh’s interest in French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives — whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries; loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body; decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial imagination; the pol...
The 2017 French Presidential Elections
Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2017 presidential elections represents one of the most important disruptions to French political life since the establishment of the Fifth Republic. This book analyses the political opportunities enabling a neophyte to conquer the Elysée, and the conditions leading to the unprecedented presidential runoff between this centrist EU enthusiast and pro-globalization candidate and the nationalistic/populist alternative embodied by Marine Le Pen. The book begins by considering trends in party competition and presidentialism in modern France, notably presidential primaries and their impact on party competition. It then moves to considering the role traditional explanatory factors in elections, namely policies and voter profiles, played in the result. Finally, it examines the dynamics of President Macron’s success in the legislatives, and how he dominated the traditional party blocs. This book will appeal to students of French politics as well as those interested in electoral behaviour and European political systems.
Routledge Handbook of European Elections
The Routledge Handbook of European Elections explores the multifaceted dimension of the European Parliament’s (EP) electoral contests across the European Community and European Union since 1979. After setting a general empirical and theoretical framework, this collaborative project presents original contributions from leading experts from virtually all the corners of the European Union. Each case study adheres to a common template that makes it easy to compare data, methodology and outcomes. Every country chapter includes: a brief geopolitical profile and historical background of the Member State; a glance at the national political landscape; a short account of the main political parties, ...
The Wombs of Women
In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in 1970, the doctors claimed to have been encouraged to perform these abortions by French politicians who sought to curtail reproduction on the island, even though abortion was illegal in France. In The Wombs of Women—first published in French and appearing here in English for the first time—Françoise Vergès traces the long history of colonial state intervention in black women’s wombs during t...
Rapport de la commission spéciale sur le projet de loi relatif à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte
Dans l’ensemble de la transition écologique, le volet relatif à la transition énergétique apparaît particulièrement structurant.Concept créé en Allemagne dans les années 1980 pour préparer une réduction du poids du pétrole et de l’atome, il prône le développement des sources renouvelables et la démocratisation de l’approvisionnement en énergie. Ces lignes de force doivent venir compléter les priorités traditionnelles de la politique énergétique française exprimées à l’article L. 100-1 du code de l’énergie : assurer la sécurité d’approvisionnement, maintenir un prix de l’énergie compétitif, préserver la santé humaine et l’environnement, en particu...
Colonialism and Antarctica
This book explores how the concept of colonialism can help to understand the past and present of Antarctica, and how Antarctica may illuminate the limits of colonialism as an analytic concept. Despite lacking an indigenous population, the continent has been shaped by many of the same political and economic forces that have defined the rest of the world – notwithstanding its unique governance arrangement, the Antarctic Treaty System. The book provides a fresh and timely set of contributions that critically explore different practices, attitudes and logics that suggest that colonialism may have been and may still be present in Antarctica, ranging from religion to material culture to the treatment of animals. The chapters also explore the connection between colonialism and cognate terms like capitalism, socialism, nationalism, and environmentalism.
Rapport d'information sur l'adaptation du droit de l'énergie aux Outre-mer
Reposant sur des centrales thermiques traditionnelles et un approvisionnement par bateaux en produits pétroliers, le système énergétique des territoires ultra-marins est précaire, carboné et coûteux. La transition énergétique doit apporter une réponse à ces fragilités, en créant un nouveau modèle énergétique sur-mesure. Malheureusement, s’il existe un consensus sur les objectifs, les moyens mis en oeuvre ne sont pas suffisants, faute d’une adaptation au contexte local des dispositifs de soutien aux énergies renouvelables et à la maîtrise de la demande d’énergie. Afin de créer un nouvel élan, le présent rapport propose une évolution de la gouvernance du secteur dans les Outre-mer. Ça n’est qu’à cette condition que le lancement d’une politique ambitieuse de l’énergie sera possible.
Rapport d'information sur les conséquences du changement climatique dans les outre-mer
Ce rapport explique pourquoi il est essentiel d’accorder une importance primordiale aux outre-mer dans la négociation de la COP 21. Il montre d’abord comment et pourquoi les outre-mer, insulaires et vulnérables, sont particulièrement exposés au réchauffement climatique dû aux gaz à effet de serre et à ses conséquences, notamment à la hausse du niveau de la mer. Ils n’en sont pas responsables, mais ils vont être affectés par de multiples phénomènes, dont le rapport donne une description. C’est aussi bien la vie quotidienne des habitants des outre-mer que les activités économiques et touristiques qui vont être profondément perturbées. Dans la suite des actions déjà...
