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Crisis and Commitment the Life History of a French Social Movement
288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Using ethnographic field data from the Larzac plateau in Southern France, Alexander and Sonia Alland document one of the longest and most successful popular protests in modern French history - the Larzac movement. More than a record of events, the book describes the transformation from the early 1970s of rural defiance into a symbol of left-wing action for France and the world. This revised... Read more
Introduction: The Larzac and Invented Tradition; Part One: The Community Forms, Background, The Struggle Begins, The Struggle Continues, Victory, Planning for the Future, The Future Unfolds; Part Two: The Community Evolves, From History to Myth by Way of Symbols, Discords, The Structure of Conflict and its Resolution, The Larzac and the Tradition of the New, Into the Next Century
Biography
Sonia Alland, Alexander Alland Jr.
In an analysis that is engaged and yet clear-headed, Alexander Alland presents a social movement in which out-of-the-ordinary individuals, drawing from the image of southern French peasentry, invented a tradition. The 'peasants' of the Larzac formed an innovative community still very much alive and attentive to the problems of rural development' - Jean-Luc Bonniol, University of Aix-Marseille, France
'There are few studies of the purposeful creation of a social movement, and by addressing this question, the authors raise some of the important implications of the Larzac case. In the many studies of protest and resistance, there is an increasing anthropological attention to issues of violence. Here, the focus on nonviolence is key and interesting, for nonviolence is less studied and, consequently, less well understood' - Elizabeth Evans, University of New Hampshire, USA
