Penser l'extrême droite en milieu rural

Un récit de deux France?

Authors

  • Dimitri Almeida University of Göttingen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15460/apropos.1.1261

Keywords:

Front National, rurality, elections, France, radical right

Abstract

The present article addresses the electoral success of Marine Le Pen and the Front National in rural areas. This phenomenon is regularly interpreted as the expression of an emergent territorial cleavage between urban and peripheral areas. However, the analysis of the normative and empirical bases of this supposed spatial conflict reveals much more complex sociocultural dynamics. Based on qualitative fieldwork in the Vosges department in eastern France, I explore the links between collective narratives of deprivation, the propagation of rumours and the radical right vote in order to show that the rise of the Front National in a number of rural municipalities largely eschews a binary tale of two Frances.

Author Biography

Dimitri Almeida, University of Göttingen

Dimitri Almeida is Lecturer at the Department of Romance Studies of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. His research fields at the intersection of Romance studies, cultural studies and political science include secularism and immigration in contemporary France. He has published The impact of European integration on political parties: Beyond the permissive consensus (Routledge 2012) and Laizität im Konflikt: Religion und Politik in Frankreich (Springer VS 2017), his researches about the Front National were particularly published in journals as Modern & Contemporary France, French Cultural Studies and International Journal of Cultural Policy.

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Received

2018-12-12

Published

2018-12-12

How to Cite

[1]
Almeida, D. 2018. Penser l’extrême droite en milieu rural: Un récit de deux France?. apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania]. 1 (Dec. 2018), 13–32. DOI:https://doi.org/10.15460/apropos.1.1261.

Issue

No. 1 (2018): Romanistik aktuell

Section

Special issue

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Copyright (c) 2018 Dimitri Almeida

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