A brief history ofLe Système D
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2920696 |
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| Authors | Libby Murphy (Oberlin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 351-371 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary French Civilization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-9156 • E-ISSN: 2044-396X |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/cfc.2015.20 |
| OpenAlex | W2226966372 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This article traces the development of the French and Francophone concept of Le Système D from its origins in the colonial army in North Africa in the mid-nineteenth century, to its uses and abuses during the two world wars, to its contemporary use in the context of informal economies worldwide. La débrouillardise and its many derivatives (se débrouiller, débrouillard, and Le Système D) are central to the French and Francophone cultural imagination. The terms have migrated with peoples and ideas across the French-speaking world to describe a broad range of arts and practices of ingenuity and improvisation. Le Système D is invoked by individuals who are confronted with systems – bureaucratic, economic, or military – over which they have little control and within which they have few choices and limited resources. Le Système D is a powerful interdisciplinary concept that can help us better understand an outlook and approach to life that is fast becoming the dominant “habitus” of our age
Archaeology · Art · Bureaucracy · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · French · Humanities · Ingenuity · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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