Decolonization and the Republic

Shepard, Todd; Berenson, Edward; Duclert, Vincent; Prochasson, Christophe

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“…In some cases, postwar projects of colonial development also meant reforming the relationship between metropole and empire, but reform did not mean political or economic equalization. The French Union and the constitution of 1946 gave a degree of representation in a quasi‐federal assembly to the population of the colonies, now renamed “ territoires d'outre‐mer ” (overseas territories); yet while all were technically “citizens,” the status carried, “multiple, radically different, and wholly unequal sets of rights” (Shepard, 2011, p. 257). The population of the colonies greatly outnumbered that of metropolitan France but elected only a fraction of Assembly representatives, and even there a proportion of the seats was reserved for the representative of “European” settlers in overseas territories (ibid.).…”

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Revisiting the “Great Levelling”: The limits of Piketty’sCapital and Ideologyfor understanding the rise of late 20th century inequality

Paidipaty

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2021

British Journal of Sociology

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In Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty returns to questions of historical inequality, not merely to fill in the gaps in the earlier, widely circulated and impactful Capital in the 21st Century, but to undertake a far more ambitious and nuanced project. Critics (Bhambra & Holmwood, 2018;Moeller, 2016) pointed out that in the previous book, Piketty's consideration of the role of high concentrations wealth on inequality focused largely on a handful of relatively wealthy countries (the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan). More importantly, it did not consider the political and economic relationships, forged by European colonization and the trans-Atlantic slave trade that helped to create lasting inequalities in wealth, status, education, and life expectancy around the globe. These oversights corresponded to significant methodological gaps, in which inequalities defined by social status and identity, including gender, race, and caste, were largely left out of considerations that centered around economic and material disparities. Yet, these different forms of inequalities are intimately connected, as gender wage gaps and racial wealth gaps in different parts of the world attest.Capital and Ideology sets out to rectify both sets of criticisms and in doing so, offers a refreshingly large lens on the historical creation, stabilization, and reformation of systems of inequality. The book covers an impressively varied set of social and historical topics, from the creation of feudal regimes of property in 11th century France, to the exploitation of slave labor in plantation economies in the Americas and the stabilization of caste hierarchies under colonial rule in India.Despite its incredible scope, range, and ambition, Capital and Ideology once again brings into sharp focus the great economic transformations that took place in the middle of the 20th century, contrasting these with rising inequality in our times. According to Piketty (2020, p. 20), the "most worrisome structural changes facing us today [include] the revival of inequality nearly everywhere since the 1980s." As his work here and elsewhere explains, the extreme material and social disparities of the Gilded Age were dramatically rolled back by war, global depression, and the creation of This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Section: The “Great Levelling” In Global Perspectivementioning

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Revisiting the “Great Levelling”: The limits of Piketty’sCapital and Ideologyfor understanding the rise of late 20th century inequality

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2021

British Journal of Sociology

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Algerian Nationalism, Zionism, and French Laïcité: A History of Ethnoreligious Nationalisms and Decolonization

Shepard¹

2013

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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The Algerian war resituated the meaning of “Muslims” and “Jews” in France in relation to religion and “origins” and this process reshaped French secular nationhood, with Algerian independence in mid-1962 crystallizing a complex and shifting debate that took shape in the interwar period and blossomed between 1945 and 1962. In its failed efforts to keep all Algerians French, the French government responded to both Algerian nationalism and, as is less known, Zionism, and did so with policies that took seriously, rather than rejected, the so-called ethnoreligious arguments that they embraced—and that, according to existing scholarship, have always been anathema to French laïcité. Most scholars on France continue to presume that its history is national or wholly “European.” Yet paying attention to this transnational confrontation, driven by claims from Algeria and Israel, emphasizes the crucial roles of North African and Mediterranean developments in the making of contemporary France.

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The Birth of the Hexagon: 1962 and the Erasure of France’s Supranational History

Shepard¹

2016

Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France

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Decolonization and the Republic

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Revisiting the “Great Levelling”: The limits of Piketty’sCapital and Ideologyfor understanding the rise of late 20th century inequality

Revisiting the “Great Levelling”: The limits of Piketty’sCapital and Ideologyfor understanding the rise of late 20th century inequality

Algerian Nationalism, Zionism, and French Laïcité: A History of Ethnoreligious Nationalisms and Decolonization

The Birth of the Hexagon: 1962 and the Erasure of France’s Supranational History

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