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Reynolds, C 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3704-8425,
2018.
From mai–juin '68 to Nuit Debout: shifting perspectives on France's anti-police.
Modern and Contemporary France, 26 (2), pp. 145-163.
ISSN 0963-9489
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Abstract
In the great drama that was mai-juin 1968, the police were unquestionably a central actor. In particular, they played a pivotal role in transforming what started out as a relatively minor, student-based rebellion into a nationwide movement that brought the Gaullist regime to the brink of collapse. The 2016 Nuit Debout protest movement drew strong comparisons to the 1968 events with many wondering if France stood to experience a repeat of those heady days. This article will argue that the inability of Nuit Debout to capture the imagination of the general public in a similar fashion to what happened in 1968 is not solely the result of the exceptional and divergent contexts. Instead, it will contend that this failure is also to be understood through an appreciation of shifting perspectives on France's anti-police. Such positive developments, it will be argued, have ironically been shaped as a result of the 1968 events and the manner with which they are most commonly remembered.
La police était un acteur indéniablement principal dans les événements de mai-juin 1968 en France. En particulier, ils ont joué un rôle critique dans la transformation d'une crise étudiante, relativement mineur, en un mouvement national qui a poussée le régime gaulliste jusqu'au bord du gouffre. Le mouvement Nuit Debout de 2016 a été très souvent comparé aux événements de 1968 avec beaucoup qui se demandaient si la France risquait une répétition de cette crise phare. Cet article avancera l'argument que l'incapacité de Nuit Debout à captiver l'imagination de la population générale de la même façon que mai-juin 68 n'est pas simplement la conséquence des contextes divergents et exceptionnels des deux mouvements. En fait, un tel échec s'explique aussi à travers une appréciation des attitudes changeantes en ce qui concerne la perspective anti-flic en France. De tels développements sont une conséquence inattendue des événements de '68 et la manière dont ils sont le plus communément souvenus.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | Modern and Contemporary France |
| Creators: | Reynolds, C. |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Date: | 2018 |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Number: | 2 |
| ISSN: | 0963-9489 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1080/09639489.2018.1424126 DOI |
| Rights: | © 2018 association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Arts and Humanities |
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan |
| Date Added: | 06 Mar 2018 11:58 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2019 13:33 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32856 |
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