Maintaining the “colonial framework” as part of daily life in the French West Indies
Bouvard, Hugo
Maintaining the “colonial framework” as part of daily life in the French West Indies - 2014.
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This article explores the persistence of a “colonial frame” in the newsroom of a daily newspaper in the French West Indies, in the aftermath of an episode of social tensions in 2009. This conflict questioned the persisting social hierarchies inherited from the French colonial state and the strike that went on in the newspaper had very tangible consequences. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this paper shows, within an intersectional framework, how social relations of power (race, gender, class) materialize through interactions between journalists. This perspective allows us to examine the strategies – and their limits – that some of our interviewees deploy to deal with situations of systemic oppression, such as the mobilization of a “capital of autochthony”.
Maintaining the “colonial framework” as part of daily life in the French West Indies - 2014.
45
This article explores the persistence of a “colonial frame” in the newsroom of a daily newspaper in the French West Indies, in the aftermath of an episode of social tensions in 2009. This conflict questioned the persisting social hierarchies inherited from the French colonial state and the strike that went on in the newspaper had very tangible consequences. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this paper shows, within an intersectional framework, how social relations of power (race, gender, class) materialize through interactions between journalists. This perspective allows us to examine the strategies – and their limits – that some of our interviewees deploy to deal with situations of systemic oppression, such as the mobilization of a “capital of autochthony”.
Réseaux sociaux