The Ambiguous Consensus of the Law of June 30, 1983 Relating to the Commemoration of the Abolition of Slavery
Michel, Johann
The Ambiguous Consensus of the Law of June 30, 1983 Relating to the Commemoration of the Abolition of Slavery - 2015.
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The aim of this contribution is to analyze the political controversies that emerged in the early 1980s concerning the memory of slavery. These controversies, which see nationalists and départementalistes” engaged in confrontation in the French overseas departments, arose in parliamentary assemblies at the time the Left came to power and in the context of the polling of the first law on decentralization. Based on the empirical study of reports of parliamentary debates and using conceptual tools from the Frame analysis and pragmatic sociology, the aim of this article is to show how the law of June 30, 1983 is the product of a compromise that aggregates actors and antagonistic interests.
The Ambiguous Consensus of the Law of June 30, 1983 Relating to the Commemoration of the Abolition of Slavery - 2015.
48
The aim of this contribution is to analyze the political controversies that emerged in the early 1980s concerning the memory of slavery. These controversies, which see nationalists and départementalistes” engaged in confrontation in the French overseas departments, arose in parliamentary assemblies at the time the Left came to power and in the context of the polling of the first law on decentralization. Based on the empirical study of reports of parliamentary debates and using conceptual tools from the Frame analysis and pragmatic sociology, the aim of this article is to show how the law of June 30, 1983 is the product of a compromise that aggregates actors and antagonistic interests.
Réseaux sociaux