Territorial Identity in Europe: The Political Processes of the Construction of Identities in Corsica, the Basque Country, Italy, Macedonia and the Swiss Jura

Contemporary European History

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 285-294

  Voutat, Bernard ^a  

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EID: 85008581135     PISSN: 09607773     EISSN: 14692171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0960777300002071     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. In French, this opposition is very well described in an article published some time ago by Pierre Bourdieu, L'identité et la représentation’, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, Vol. 35 (1980), 63-72. There is also a useful survey of research on the subject in C. Jaffrelot, Les modéles explicatifs de l'origine des nations et du nationalisme’, in G. Delannoi and P.-A. Taguieff, eds., Théories du nationalisme (Paris: Kimé, 1991), 138-77. For an overview of more specifically historical debates see the works of Gérard Noiriel, especially La question nationale comme objet de l'histoire sociale’, Genéses, Vol. 4 (1991), 72-94.
2. This notion can be used to describe an approach that aims to combine sociology and history in the study of political objects, and so refresh that study. See Yves Deloye, Sociologie historique du politique (Paris: La Découverte, 1997). The French journal, Genéses (published by Belin, 1990-) is devoted to the study of socio-history’.
3. The reader may notice a similarity to Eugen Weber's studies of France, which have highlighted the linguistic policy of the centralised state throughout the nineteenth century, aimed at imposing educated’ French at the expense of local dialects. Eugen Weber, La fin des terroirs. La modernisation de la France rurale 1870-1914 (Paris: Fayard, 1983).
4. For an overview see Bernard Voutat, Objectivation sociale et motivations politiques. La question nationale dans le Jura suisse’, Revue Francëaise de Science Politique, Vol. 46, no. 1 (1996), 30-51.
5. In particular Jean-Francëois Sirinelli, Intellectuels et passions francëaises. Manifestes et pétitions au XXiéme siécle (Paris: Fayard, 1990); Christophe Prochasson, Histoire intellectuelle/histoire des intellectuels. Le socialisme francëais au début du XXiéme siécle’, Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Vol. 39 (1992), 423-48; Christophe Charle, Les intellectuels en Europe au XIXiéme siécle. Essai d'histoire comparée (Paris: Seuil, 1996).
6. It quite often happens that historians shift from one perspective to another without really realising that they are changing from one concept of the social world to another, thus recapitulating an old debate, among political philosophers interested in the idea of the nation, between the German definition’, which is clearly culturalist, and the French definition’, which is basically voluntarist.
7. R. Chartier, Le monde comme représentation’, Annales, Vol. 6 (1989), 1514.