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Europeanising Spaces in Paris (Hardcover)
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Europeanising Spaces in Paris (Hardcover)
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In the wake of the Second World War, ideas of Europe abounded. What
did Europe mean as a concept, and what did it mean to be European?
Europeanising Spaces in Paris, c. 1947-1962 makes the case that
Paris was both a leading and distinctive forum for the expression
of these ideas in the post-war period. It examines spaces in the
French capital in which ideas about Europe were formulated,
articulated, exchanged, circulated, and contested during this
post-war period, roughly between the escalation of the Cold War and
the end of France's war of decolonisation in Algeria. Such
processes of making sense of Europe are elucidated in urban,
political and cultural spaces in the French capital. Specifically,
the Parisian cafe, home and street are each examined in terms of
how they were implicated in ideas about Europe. Then, the
Paris-based Mouvement socialiste des etats unis d'Europe (The
Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe) and the
far-right wing Federation des etudiants nationalistes (The
Federation of Nationalist Students) are examined as examples of
political movements that mobilised around - very different -
concepts of Europe. The final section on cultural Europeanising
spaces draws attention to the specificities of the Europeanism of
exiles from Franco's Spain in Paris; the work of the great scholar
of the Arab world, Jacques Berque, in the context of his
understanding of the Mediterranean world and his understanding of
faith; and finally, the work of the legendary photographer, Henri
Cartier-Bresson, by looking at the capacities and limitations of
the photographic medium for the representation of Europe, and how
these corresponded with Cartier-Bresson's political, social, and
aesthetic commitments.
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