Jeremy Ahearne
Biographic Data
| ID | 1644836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Ahearne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahearne |
| SIGNATURE | AHEARNE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Emmanuel Macron and the reprojection of the French language
Although preceding presidents of the Fifth Republic have shown commitment in varying degrees to the projection of the French language, none has done so in as focused and symbolically charged a manner as Emmanuel Macron. This can be explained through the combination of his individual biographical trajectory, the opportunity offered to carve out a presidential profile in relation to his predecessors and his rivals, and through the contemporary posi…
Bourdieu and the Literary Field
French Cultural Policy Debates
International recognition regimes and the projection of France
The recent turn to substantial theories of ‘recognition’ in international relations is of considerable interest for the study of international cultural relations. France provides a revealing case study due to the historical importance of culture as such in its foreign policies. Its ‘diplomacies of influence’ can be understood as forms of recognition-seeking across shifting international ‘regimes of recognition’ (Ringmar). France once played a lea…
Cultural insecurity and its discursive crystallisation in contemporary France
This article analyses the emergence in French public discourse since 2010 of the term ‘insécurité culturelle’ (‘cultural insecurity’). It traces firstly the take-up of the term outside France since the 1980s in anglophone written news media. It establishes four received meanings for the term: a ‘pure’ cultural insecurity expressing simply a relation to the arts world; a nationally refracted cultural insecurity that expresses that relation through…
La guerre des civilisations n’aura pas lieu
La guerre des civilisations n’aura pas lieu: coexistence et violence au XXIe siècle." Modern & Contemporary France, 24(4), pp. 448–449
Cultural policy through the prism of fiction (Michel Houellebecq)
Cultural policy studies tends to talk about fiction without actually using it. A typical move is to place it in an aesthetic realm to be protected, situated and/or critiqued. This is an eminently worthwhile activity. However, this paper explores some ways in which works of fiction may, following their own dynamic, yield significant perspectives upon the world of cultural policy itself. In what ways do fictional works offer us prisms through which…
Laïcité
The recasting of laïcité in France between 2002 and 2012 constituted a channel through which succeeding right-wing governments endeavoured to secure a form of cultural hegemony. This article focuses on the period 2002–7. The process leading to the anti-veil legislation of 2004 under President Chirac revealed how this symbolically charged motif once associated with the left had been displaced and integrated into a traditional and restrictive right…
Questions of religion and cultural policy in France
Pour une histoire des politiques culturelles dans le monde, 1945–2011 [For a history of cultural policies in the world, 1945–2011]
Introduction
Pierre Bourdieu's range as a thinker was extremely wide, and it would be misleading to present him primarily as a literary theorist. Trained as a philosopher, he became the leading French sociologist of his generation, and brought under the spotlight of his 'critical sociology' a whole series of institutional and discursive universes (education, art, linguistics, public administration, politics, philosophy, journalism, economics and others). Far …
Fields and Fragments
Literary pedagogy occupied a privileged place in Bourdieu's early work on education insofar as he saw it as exemplifying in unconscious mode socially segregational dynamics. Bourdieu's expressly 'reductionist' critique was uncannily mirrored, however, by the spread of more economically instrumental approaches to education. Bourdieu's engagement with these led him to develop a fuller apprehension of literature. Yet while the conceptual apparatus h…
Designs on the popular
This article examines the culture‐shaping strategies pursued through French educational policies. It traces the process through which the republican education system claimed legitimacy to bring all citizens into its universalising embrace and to institute a form of national popular culture. At the same time, the article shows how specifications of esoterically ‘universal’ and ‘general’ curricular content were used to maintain barriers between eli…
Cultural policies and religion
The relations between cultural policies and religions have to date received relatively little attention on the part of researchers in cultural policy studies. They warrant such attention, however
Questions of religion and cultural policy in France
This article explores how questions of religion have impinged on or informed various dimensions of culture‐shaping policy in France. Firstly, it considers not only how religious references have been orchestrated in high‐level attempts to frame secular national identities, but also how such processes have assumed quasi‐religious forms and functions. Secondly, it analyses the changing place of religion in French educational curricula and recent con…
Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France
Michel de Certeau, The practice of everyday life
Michel de Certeau, The practice of everyday life ." International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(1), pp. 2–3
Cultural policy explicit and implicit
This paper develops a distinction between 'explicit' or 'nominal' cultural policies (policies that are explicitly labelled as 'cultural') and 'implicit' or 'effective' cultural policies (policies that are not labelled manifestly as 'cultural', but that work to prescribe or shape cultural attitudes and habits over given territories). It begins by defining the distinction through reference to a suggestive inconsistency located within the work of th…
Public Intellectuals and Cultural Policy in France
The notion of the public intellectual in France represents a form of extra‐governmental cultural politics in its own right. This article begins, however, by exploring three sets of reasons that can account for the aversion of French intellectuals under the Fifth Republic to involvement in State cultural policy processes. These are: the historical counter‐examples represented by intellectuals’ involvement in the policy apparatuses of the Vichy reg…
Notes from a French perspective
This article uses John Kingdon's “multiple streams” model of the policy process to explore the role of French public intellectuals in processes of cultural and educational policy formation. The relative autonomy attributed by Kingdon to the “primeval soup” of ideas constituted by the policy stream (as distinct from the “problems” and “politics” streams posited by his model) provides the basis for this exploration. However, Kingdon's model is not …
Cultural policy in the old europe
(2003). Cultural policy in the old europe: France and Germany. International Journal of Cultural Policy: Vol. 9, French and German Cultural Policies, pp. 127-131
Questions of Cultural Policy in the Thought of Michel de Certeau(1968-1972)
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 2, Spring 2001
Essay Review
France. Oxford and Washington, DC: Berg, 1995. Pbk, 1997. Philippe Urfalino. L'Invention de la politique culturelle. Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 1996. Philippe Poirrier (ed.). La Naissance des politiques culturelles et les rencontres d'Avignon sous la presidence de Jean Vilar (1964-1970). Paris: Ministere de la culture et de la communication, Comite d'histoire, 1997. Olivier Donnat. Les Pratiques culturelles des Francais. Enquete 1997. Par…
Vers un agir complexe
Michel de Certeau
Cultural policy explicit and implicit
This paper develops a distinction between 'explicit' or 'nominal' cultural policies (policies that are explicitly labelled as 'cultural') and 'implicit' or 'effective' cultural policies (policies that are not labelled manifestly as 'cultural', but that work to prescribe or shape cultural attitudes and habits over given territories). It begins by defining the distinction through reference to a suggestive inconsistency located within the work of th…
Notes from a French perspective
This article uses John Kingdon's “multiple streams” model of the policy process to explore the role of French public intellectuals in processes of cultural and educational policy formation. The relative autonomy attributed by Kingdon to the “primeval soup” of ideas constituted by the policy stream (as distinct from the “problems” and “politics” streams posited by his model) provides the basis for this exploration. However, Kingdon's model is not …
Cultural insecurity and its discursive crystallisation in contemporary France
This article analyses the emergence in French public discourse since 2010 of the term ‘insécurité culturelle’ (‘cultural insecurity’). It traces firstly the take-up of the term outside France since the 1980s in anglophone written news media. It establishes four received meanings for the term: a ‘pure’ cultural insecurity expressing simply a relation to the arts world; a nationally refracted cultural insecurity that expresses that relation through…
Cultural policy in the old europe
(2003). Cultural policy in the old europe: France and Germany. International Journal of Cultural Policy: Vol. 9, French and German Cultural Policies, pp. 127-131
Laïcité
The recasting of laïcité in France between 2002 and 2012 constituted a channel through which succeeding right-wing governments endeavoured to secure a form of cultural hegemony. This article focuses on the period 2002–7. The process leading to the anti-veil legislation of 2004 under President Chirac revealed how this symbolically charged motif once associated with the left had been displaced and integrated into a traditional and restrictive right…
Questions of religion and cultural policy in France
This article explores how questions of religion have impinged on or informed various dimensions of culture‐shaping policy in France. Firstly, it considers not only how religious references have been orchestrated in high‐level attempts to frame secular national identities, but also how such processes have assumed quasi‐religious forms and functions. Secondly, it analyses the changing place of religion in French educational curricula and recent con…
Public Intellectuals and Cultural Policy in France
The notion of the public intellectual in France represents a form of extra‐governmental cultural politics in its own right. This article begins, however, by exploring three sets of reasons that can account for the aversion of French intellectuals under the Fifth Republic to involvement in State cultural policy processes. These are: the historical counter‐examples represented by intellectuals’ involvement in the policy apparatuses of the Vichy reg…
Cultural policies and religion
The relations between cultural policies and religions have to date received relatively little attention on the part of researchers in cultural policy studies. They warrant such attention, however
Emmanuel Macron and the reprojection of the French language
Although preceding presidents of the Fifth Republic have shown commitment in varying degrees to the projection of the French language, none has done so in as focused and symbolically charged a manner as Emmanuel Macron. This can be explained through the combination of his individual biographical trajectory, the opportunity offered to carve out a presidential profile in relation to his predecessors and his rivals, and through the contemporary posi…
International recognition regimes and the projection of France
The recent turn to substantial theories of ‘recognition’ in international relations is of considerable interest for the study of international cultural relations. France provides a revealing case study due to the historical importance of culture as such in its foreign policies. Its ‘diplomacies of influence’ can be understood as forms of recognition-seeking across shifting international ‘regimes of recognition’ (Ringmar). France once played a lea…
Designs on the popular
This article examines the culture‐shaping strategies pursued through French educational policies. It traces the process through which the republican education system claimed legitimacy to bring all citizens into its universalising embrace and to institute a form of national popular culture. At the same time, the article shows how specifications of esoterically ‘universal’ and ‘general’ curricular content were used to maintain barriers between eli…
Michel de Certeau, The practice of everyday life
Michel de Certeau, The practice of everyday life ." International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(1), pp. 2–3
Michel de Certeau
Vers un agir complexe
Essay Review
France. Oxford and Washington, DC: Berg, 1995. Pbk, 1997. Philippe Urfalino. L'Invention de la politique culturelle. Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 1996. Philippe Poirrier (ed.). La Naissance des politiques culturelles et les rencontres d'Avignon sous la presidence de Jean Vilar (1964-1970). Paris: Ministere de la culture et de la communication, Comite d'histoire, 1997. Olivier Donnat. Les Pratiques culturelles des Francais. Enquete 1997. Par…
Questions of Cultural Policy in the Thought of Michel de Certeau(1968-1972)
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 2, Spring 2001
Cultural policy in the old europe
(2003). Cultural policy in the old europe: France and Germany. International Journal of Cultural Policy: Vol. 9, French and German Cultural Policies, pp. 127-131
Public Intellectuals and Cultural Policy in France
The notion of the public intellectual in France represents a form of extra‐governmental cultural politics in its own right. This article begins, however, by exploring three sets of reasons that can account for the aversion of French intellectuals under the Fifth Republic to involvement in State cultural policy processes. These are: the historical counter‐examples represented by intellectuals’ involvement in the policy apparatuses of the Vichy reg…
Notes from a French perspective
This article uses John Kingdon's “multiple streams” model of the policy process to explore the role of French public intellectuals in processes of cultural and educational policy formation. The relative autonomy attributed by Kingdon to the “primeval soup” of ideas constituted by the policy stream (as distinct from the “problems” and “politics” streams posited by his model) provides the basis for this exploration. However, Kingdon's model is not …
Cultural policy explicit and implicit
This paper develops a distinction between 'explicit' or 'nominal' cultural policies (policies that are explicitly labelled as 'cultural') and 'implicit' or 'effective' cultural policies (policies that are not labelled manifestly as 'cultural', but that work to prescribe or shape cultural attitudes and habits over given territories). It begins by defining the distinction through reference to a suggestive inconsistency located within the work of th…
Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France
Michel de Certeau, The practice of everyday life
Michel de Certeau, The practice of everyday life ." International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(1), pp. 2–3
Designs on the popular
This article examines the culture‐shaping strategies pursued through French educational policies. It traces the process through which the republican education system claimed legitimacy to bring all citizens into its universalising embrace and to institute a form of national popular culture. At the same time, the article shows how specifications of esoterically ‘universal’ and ‘general’ curricular content were used to maintain barriers between eli…
Cultural policies and religion
The relations between cultural policies and religions have to date received relatively little attention on the part of researchers in cultural policy studies. They warrant such attention, however
Questions of religion and cultural policy in France
This article explores how questions of religion have impinged on or informed various dimensions of culture‐shaping policy in France. Firstly, it considers not only how religious references have been orchestrated in high‐level attempts to frame secular national identities, but also how such processes have assumed quasi‐religious forms and functions. Secondly, it analyses the changing place of religion in French educational curricula and recent con…
Questions of religion and cultural policy in France
Pour une histoire des politiques culturelles dans le monde, 1945–2011 [For a history of cultural policies in the world, 1945–2011]
Introduction
Pierre Bourdieu's range as a thinker was extremely wide, and it would be misleading to present him primarily as a literary theorist. Trained as a philosopher, he became the leading French sociologist of his generation, and brought under the spotlight of his 'critical sociology' a whole series of institutional and discursive universes (education, art, linguistics, public administration, politics, philosophy, journalism, economics and others). Far …
Fields and Fragments
Literary pedagogy occupied a privileged place in Bourdieu's early work on education insofar as he saw it as exemplifying in unconscious mode socially segregational dynamics. Bourdieu's expressly 'reductionist' critique was uncannily mirrored, however, by the spread of more economically instrumental approaches to education. Bourdieu's engagement with these led him to develop a fuller apprehension of literature. Yet while the conceptual apparatus h…
Laïcité
The recasting of laïcité in France between 2002 and 2012 constituted a channel through which succeeding right-wing governments endeavoured to secure a form of cultural hegemony. This article focuses on the period 2002–7. The process leading to the anti-veil legislation of 2004 under President Chirac revealed how this symbolically charged motif once associated with the left had been displaced and integrated into a traditional and restrictive right…
Cultural policy through the prism of fiction (Michel Houellebecq)
Cultural policy studies tends to talk about fiction without actually using it. A typical move is to place it in an aesthetic realm to be protected, situated and/or critiqued. This is an eminently worthwhile activity. However, this paper explores some ways in which works of fiction may, following their own dynamic, yield significant perspectives upon the world of cultural policy itself. In what ways do fictional works offer us prisms through which…
La guerre des civilisations n’aura pas lieu
La guerre des civilisations n’aura pas lieu: coexistence et violence au XXIe siècle." Modern & Contemporary France, 24(4), pp. 448–449
Cultural insecurity and its discursive crystallisation in contemporary France
This article analyses the emergence in French public discourse since 2010 of the term ‘insécurité culturelle’ (‘cultural insecurity’). It traces firstly the take-up of the term outside France since the 1980s in anglophone written news media. It establishes four received meanings for the term: a ‘pure’ cultural insecurity expressing simply a relation to the arts world; a nationally refracted cultural insecurity that expresses that relation through…
French Cultural Policy Debates
International recognition regimes and the projection of France
The recent turn to substantial theories of ‘recognition’ in international relations is of considerable interest for the study of international cultural relations. France provides a revealing case study due to the historical importance of culture as such in its foreign policies. Its ‘diplomacies of influence’ can be understood as forms of recognition-seeking across shifting international ‘regimes of recognition’ (Ringmar). France once played a lea…
Bourdieu and the Literary Field
Emmanuel Macron and the reprojection of the French language
Although preceding presidents of the Fifth Republic have shown commitment in varying degrees to the projection of the French language, none has done so in as focused and symbolically charged a manner as Emmanuel Macron. This can be explained through the combination of his individual biographical trajectory, the opportunity offered to carve out a presidential profile in relation to his predecessors and his rivals, and through the contemporary posi…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Cultural policy (9 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (8 works) · Cultural Identity and Heritage (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works)