This is a presentation made in the frame of a course on "Culture and Identity" at Stockholm University for students at the level of French III. The goal is to explore the consequences of the Dreyfus scandal (1894-1906) in France and abroad. The Dreyfus affair is not simply a historical scandal where the military staff was implicated, it is a topic for anthropological studies to understand the falsifications, the fake news and the attitudes of the different involved actors of this scandal. The rise of anti-Semitism with the increasingly important role of the press is also mentioned.
The presidential election is a special circumstance when one person meets the people, said once the Centrist leader François Bayrou in a speech given the 1st of March 2007 during the presidential campaign. This quote has been retaken by many other politicians and it was sometimes attributed to the général de Gaulle. But after eight men who were presidents in the fifth Republic in France, it can be interesting to think about the strategy used by women to attempt to become presidents. How do they legitimize their place in a masculine political landscape? What is their storytelling in terms of leadership in a personalized election? By using the framework of critical discourse analysis, we will focus on three candidates, Valérie Pécresse, Marine Le Pen and Anne Hidalgo. How did these candidates present themselves to the electors in order to rule the country? By using the typology of Amossy with the notion of ethos (2010), we will analyze the books published by and on the candidates during the election. The prior ethos is linked to the reputation of the person whereas the discursive ethos reflects the performance of the candidate, who tries to react, correct or empower the prior ethos . Did the three candidates modify their ethos in order to have a new leadership?The publication of books has a marginal effect on the campaign, but it helps the authors to polish their image. The corpus will be completed with some important speeches delivered by the candidates during the campaign. The presentation was made under the conference "The Power(s) of Language - Negotiating Voice and Recognition" which was held on 17 and 18 June 2022 at Stockholm University.
This presentation shows the link between the thought of Achille Mbembe and postmodern theories. Achille Mbembe combines sociology, anthropology, history and philosophy to explain how African societies became spaces of postcolonies after the official decolonization. Achille Mbembe describes the postcolonial social regime that characterizes African societies such as Cameroon. He also points out the Western (post)colonial discourse obsessed with Africa as a dependent peripheral space. Mbembe is deeply influenced by Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida and Baudrillard. He borrowed the notion of "simulacrum" from Baudrillard to illustrate the situation of these postcolonies where the political power is based on ceremonials and rituals. This short lecture and slides presented an introduction to Achille Mbembe and was made in the frame of a course on Postmodern French Thinkers at Stockholm University.
The aim of the presentation is to analyze the changes in the reference to the expression « Swedish model » in the French press during the pandemic. The period chosen (March 2020 – March 2021) feeds a corpus of 132 articles including the references to the « Swedish model » in the titles and/or in the content. The longitudinal analysis of the corpus reveals relatively negative connotations of this model with a desire to accentuate the distance between France and Sweden. Moreover, the analysis of a series of articles highlights a systematic use of the reported discourse to be able to describe in depth and judge the evolution of the Swedish model. The results of the research illustrate a much more nuanced approach by French journalists who question the sustainability of the Swedish model. The presentation was made at Stockholm University during a workshop from the network "Språk och politik" (workshop om pandemins berättelser, 3 June 2021).
The objective of the research is to show how references to the "Swedish model" have been used in recent years in the French press. Thus, beyond political discourse, the journalistic mentions of the Swedish model since the 1990s in French newspapers and magazines provide an understanding of the way in which the general public has taken an interest in the situation of the Scandinavian and Nordic countries. This presentation was made for a seminar of Romance linguistics at Stockholm University (3 June 2021).
This presentation is a part of a course at the basic level at Stockholm University. It is a course which was supported by the Centre for Canadian Studies of Stockholm University. The course is designed to introduce students to a variety of aspects related to the history, culture and literature of Canadian society. It also tackles the bilingual aspect of Canadian society and helps students to discuss issues that are relevant in Canada. The course then looks at the challenges facing Canada in the 21st Century with focus on immigration and multiculturalism, the First Nations, gender equality, specific regions in Canada with special emphasis on Québec, and Canada's cultural identity. The introduction focuses on the historical and political aspects of Canada. It also borrows the concept of "politics of recognition" to understand the relations between two former colonial powers and indigenous populations.
Il s'agit d'une présentation en français de l'histoire politique de la France depuis la Révolution française à partir de 1789 dans le cadre du cours "Culture et identité" à l'Université de Stockholm (niveau Français III). This is a presentation made in the frame of a course on "Culture and Identity" at Stockholm University for students at the level of French III. The presentation is about the political history of France after 1789.
The course explores Caribbean history, power relations, trade, society, culture, traditions of thought, literature and the regional influence of great powers. Various forms of philosophical expression from the Caribbean region are analyzed during the course. The course investigates matters of identity, religion, subordination and post-colonial thought. Both historical themes and contemporary literature and politics are explored. The course also studies the Caribbean from the perspective of its most important linguistic and cultural fields, namely, Spanish, English and French. The presentation corresponds to the third seminar on modern Caribbean thinkers in a course at the ground level which is delivered at Stockholm University from the autumn 2020 on.
The magazine Télémaque was a bi-monthly magazine that aimed to reaching out a young audience with topics such as sport, culture and education. It mixed comics, pictures and proposed competitions for the readers. Four numbers were published in 1934 that give an accurate impression of how youth was integrated in a national narrative. Here, the word youth is used to enhance the social construction of a transformation between childhood and parenthood (Douglas, Poletti, 2016: 9) but the paradox is that there is no real voice given to young people because of a strong ideological posture of the editors. It seems that the magazine does not include a self-representation of youth as French youth is only described and addressed from an external point of view. The young generation is rather defined as a potential audience of readers, a form of collective persona but there are no real testimonies of young people, just a form of investigation on cultural habits of the young generation (Sadoski, 1992). The aim of the presentation is show how an ideological discourse on the youth emerged in the thirties in these kinds of cultural magazines in France. By focusing on sports, leisure activities and culture, the discourse constructs an idealistic and nationalistic persona of what the youth should be and act in France between the two World Wars. The tools of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) will be applied to the corpus (four numbers of Télémaque ) to analyze the synopsis of the numbers, the disposition of pictures, comics, interviews and articles as well as the recurrent topics. CDA is useful to see how the youth is represented with expressions of Othering (Van Dijk, 2006) where the youth is mentioned as a collective target for the magazine. References -Douglas, K. & Poletti, A. (2016). Life Narratives and Youth Culture Representation, Agency and Participation. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. -Sadoski, M. (1992). Imagination, cognition, and persona. Rhetoric Review, 10 (2), 266-278. -Van Dijk, T. A (2006). "Ideology and discourse analysis". Journal of Political Ideologies , 11(2): 115-140.
The presentation is made in the framework of a network of scholars working on the consequences of Covid-19 pandemic. The focus is on Sweden to understand how the recommendations from the National Health Institute were provided. Could the government rebuild a political consensus under the criss? Il a fallu 129 jours pour former un gouvernement en Suède après les élections générales de 2018, ce qui est un record pour ce pays qui avait habitué les observateurs à une longue stabilité politique. En effet, la Suède avait forgé son modèle social-démocrate autour d'une hégémonie du parti social-démocrate qui n'imposait aucun besoin de coalition au sein du système parlementaire. Cette hégémonie avait été progressivement rognée à partir des années 1980 et 1990 avec l'affirmation d'un parti conservateur (appelé les Modérés en suédois) puissant capable de forger des coalitions avec les autres partis politiques de droite et du centre (Les libéraux, le parti du centre et le parti chrétien-démocrate). La coalition de droite ( Alliansen ) avait ainsi gagné les élections générales de 2006 et de 2010 avant que les Sociaux-démocrates ne reviennent au pouvoir en 2014 avec leurs alliés écologistes. Les élections de 2018 ont vu le parti social-démocrate réaliser un score historiquement bas, ouvrant ainsi le champ à des coalitions totalement inédites. L'extrême-droite, représentée par le parti des démocrates suédois ( Sverigedemokraterna ) a considérablement progressé au point d'affaiblir les coalitions possible. Après des négociations arides, le social-démocrate Stefan Löfven, qui avait dirigé le pays de 2010 à 2014, a présenté un gouvernement alliant les Verts, les Sociaux-démocrates, les Libéraux et le Parti du Centre. La collaboration des partis de droite ( Alliansen) prenait ainsi fin avec l'émergence d'une majorité social-libérale rejetant dans l'opposition les chrétiens-démocrates et les Modérés (bloc conservateur), le parti de gauche (ex-communistes) et l'extrême-droite. La coalition social-libérale fonctionne comme un attelage ailé, les Sociaux-démocrates et les partis libéraux ayant négocié un compromis difficile pour le budget de l'État à l'automne 2019 [1] . Le pays a ainsi affronté la crise sanitaire à partir d'un consensus politique extrêmement fragile. [1] https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/XgJdqm/satsningar-for-26-miljarder-i-budgeten
The course explores Caribbean history, power relations, trade, society, culture, traditions of thought, literature and the regional influence of great powers. Various forms of philosophical expression from the Caribbean region are analyzed during the course. The course investigates matters of identity, religion, subordination and post-colonial thought. Both historical themes and contemporary literature and politics are explored. The course also studies the Caribbean from the perspective of its most important linguistic and cultural fields, namely, Spanish, English and French. The presentation corresponds to the introductory seminar of a course at the ground level which is given at Stockholm University from the autumn 2020 on.
The course explores Caribbean history, power relations, trade, society, culture, traditions of thought, literature and the regional influence of great powers. Various forms of philosophical expression from the Caribbean region are analyzed during the course. The course investigates matters of identity, religion, subordination and post-colonial thought. Both historical themes and contemporary literature and politics are explored. The course also studies the Caribbean from the perspective of its most important linguistic and cultural fields, namely, Spanish, English and French. The presentation corresponds to the second seminar on the History of Haiti in the Caribbean space of a course at the ground level which is delivered at Stockholm University from the autumn 2020 on.
The course explores Caribbean history, power relations, trade, society, culture, traditions of thought, literature and the regional influence of great powers. Various forms of philosophical expression from the Caribbean region are analyzed during the course. The course investigates matters of identity, religion, subordination and post-colonial thought. Both historical themes and contemporary literature and politics are explored. The course also studies the Caribbean from the perspective of its most important linguistic and cultural fields, namely, Spanish, English and French. The presentation corresponds to the fourth seminar on Jamaica and Cuba in a course at the ground level which is delivered at Stockholm University from the autumn 2020 on.
The presentation is a part of a course given in French (French II for students who already have 30 credits in French) on the francophone world. It underlines the distinction between the French-speaking populations and the geocultural project linked to the French language. The presentation focuses on the development of the Francophonie organization between 1980 and 2005. The idea is that this organization imitates more and more the United Nations. Its first international summit was held in 1986 in Versailles and then in 1997, the summit of Hanoi presented a chart of fundamental values and elected a political secretary for the organization. The first political secretary was Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former general secretary of the United Nations. The current organization was the result of a reshuffle of the organization in 2005 (creation of the International Organization of Francophonie that unifies the two existing agencies, the ACCT (cultural cooperation) and the AIF ( Agence Internationale de la Francophonie ).
The presentation is a keynote lecture given in a conference organized by Stockholm University on Populism, political representation, media language and power (19-20 November 2020) by the research group Rompol (Research group on political discourses in Romance-speaking countries). The aim is to analyze the claim for RIC (Citizen Initiative Referenda) in French newspapers and magazines. This demand has been formulated during the protests of the Yellow vests movement between November 2018 and March 2020. Then, the focus is on the methodological aspect as the presentation crosses discourse analysis with public policies analysis to understand how RIC emerged as a slogan in the French political discourse.
