Contemporary French Politics, Culture & Society - JTM383

• Title: Contemporary French Politics, Culture & Society
• Guaranteed by: Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (9)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Dr. Paul Bauer
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JMM683

Annotation

the lesson explores the social, cultural and political issues in contemporary France.

Last update: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (17.06.2020)

Aim of the course

The lesson offers an analysis of the shaping French political ideas and political its contemporary history. Linked to this, its hightlights the principal social issues of French societies and questions the place of France in European recent history. 

Last update: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (17.06.2020)

Literature

Literature suggestions:

 

DEBORD Guy, La société du spectacle, Paris: Gallimard, 1992.

GAUCHET, Marcel. La condition politique. Paris: Gallimard, c2005.

NOIRIEL, Gérard. Atlas de l'immigration en France: exclusion, intégration--. Paris: Autrement, 2002.

NORA Pierre, The realm of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, New York: Columbia University, 1996.

PÉCOUT, Gilles. Atlas de l'histoire de France. Paris: Autrement, 2007.

PLANHOL, Xavier de. An historical geography of France. Digitally printed 1st pbk. version. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

RÉMOND, René. Quand l'État se mêle de l'histoire. Paris: Stock, c2006.

RÉMOND, René, Religion and Society in Modern Europe, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.  

SCHNAPPER Dominique, La condition juive en France, la tentation de l'entre-soi, Paris: PUF, 2009.

SCHNAPPER Dominique, Katharina von BÜLOW, Horst MÖLLER a Timothy GARTON ASH. Identité et mémoire. Paris: CulturesFrance, 2008. Penser l'Europe.

SCHNAPPER Dominique, La démocratie providentielle, essai sur l'égalité contemporaine, Paris: Gallimard, 2002.

GIRLING, J. L. S.. London, France Political and social Change, New York: Routledge, 1998.

VAN DE MIEROOP,Kenan "The ‘age of commemoration’ as a narrative construct: a critique of the discourse on the contemporary crisis of memory in France", Rethinking History, 2016 20:2, 172-191,

Last update: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (17.06.2020)

Teaching methods

Each session is divided into two parts: a formal lecture, and a seminar type discussion animated by a student presentation.

 

Last update: Bauer Paul, Dr. (24.09.2021)

Requirements to the exam

Requirements:

Active participation (10%)

Students are required do read the mandatory texts for each class and be prepared to answer questions related to it in the class. Repeated failures to answer questions in class will lower student’s score.

Class Presentation & Paper based on the presentation (40%)

What will be expected:

15 mn presentation

Students will write a short paper about the chosen presentation's topic.  Minimum length: 6400 characters with spaces.

Send the paper  to Pauli Bauer ([e-mail]). 

Due date for the paper: 5th of January, 2022. No late submissions accepted!

Final writing essay exam (50%) A-F grade's system

Final exam will cover topics from classes, mandatory readings as well as student presentations. 

Last update: Bauer Paul, Dr. (24.09.2021)

Syllabus

Contemporary French culture and politics

 

Venue: JPEK203 (Second floor 2.) Pekařská 16, Nove Butovice

For accasional distance learning: ZOOM meeting platform (link will be shared by email one week before the class)

 

Organized in 10 sessions, the lesson will explore social, cultural and political issues in contemporary France. 

 

1.    1.10   Introduction

 

2.    8.10    Politics: From the French Revolution to the 21st century (part1)

 

3.    15.10    Politics: from the French Revolution to the 21st century (part 2)

 

4.    22.10    Politics: from the French Revolution to the 21st century (part 3)

 

5.    5.11    Social history, migration and social transformation  (part 1)

 

6.    12.11    Social history, migration and social transformation (part 2)

 

7.    19.11  Republican Commemoration's model, the shaping of a French Identity?

 

8.    26.11  Laicity, A French Model of secularism?

 

9.    3.12    France and Europe 1/2

 

10.  10.12   France and Europe 2/2

 

11    17.12   Art, Cinema and literature

   

 

Literature suggestions:

 

DEBORD Guy, La société du spectacle, Paris: Gallimard, 1992.

GAUCHET, Marcel. La condition politique. Paris: Gallimard, c2005.

NOIRIEL, Gérard. Atlas de l'immigration en France: exclusion, intégration--. Paris: Autrement, 2002.

NORA Pierre, The realm of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, New York: Columbia University, 1996.

PÉCOUT, Gilles. Atlas de l'histoire de France. Paris: Autrement, 2007.

PLANHOL, Xavier de. An historical geography of France. Digitally printed 1st pbk. version. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

RÉMOND, René. Quand l'État se mêle de l'histoire. Paris: Stock, c2006.

RÉMOND, René, Religion and Society in Modern Europe, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.  

SCHNAPPER Dominique, La condition juive en France, la tentation de l'entre-soi, Paris: PUF, 2009.

SCHNAPPER Dominique, Katharina von BÜLOW, Horst MÖLLER a Timothy GARTON ASH. Identité et mémoire. Paris: CulturesFrance, 2008. Penser l'Europe.

SCHNAPPER Dominique, La démocratie providentielle, essai sur l'égalité contemporaine, Paris: Gallimard, 2002.

GIRLING, J. L. S.. London, France Political and social Change, New York: Routledge, 1998.

VAN DE MIEROOP,Kenan "The ‘age of commemoration’ as a narrative construct: a critique of the discourse on the contemporary crisis of memory in France", Rethinking History, 2016 20:2, 172-191,

 

Last update: Bauer Paul, Dr. (24.09.2021)