Managing (in)security in Paris in Mai ’68
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 7631
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/09639489.2018.1431212
- Title of journal
- Modern & Contemporary France
- Article number
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- First page
- 129
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0963-9489
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The submitted article appeared as part of a special issue of Modern and Contemporary France entitled ‘The Anti-Police of Mai ’68 Fifty Years On’, edited by Davis, and including an introduction by himself (open access at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09639489.2018.1440198) and five other articles. Davis’s article was conceived as part of a broader research inquiry into how protestors in Paris developed critical understandings of, and tactical responses to, police repression. The special issue as a whole brings new understanding of the policing operations conducted against protestors, as of their ‘anti-police’ thought and tactics, and also probes their contemporary significance. Davis selected and brought together for the issue a range of targetted expertise. Chris Reynolds, a specialist on ’68, has conducted empirical (survey) research on changing attitudes to the police in the years since. Perry Zurn brought expertise on the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons and other leftist responses to the après-mai clampdown. Nick Hewlett’s contribution as a respected political historian of France offers an account of Maurice Grimaud’s role that both complements and diverges from Davis’s account. The early-career researcher Alex Corcos makes connections between the policing of Mai and Nuit debout. Christina Horvath considers Mai’s anti-police in relation to later banlieue writing. The issue as a whole shows how the French approach to riot-control policing still in place today was forged during the Mai protests: it resonates with Davis’s public engagement work around police brutality in France, including an op-ed piece in The Scotsman (19 April 2018) and a series of extended television interviews (France24, China Global, CNBC Arabiya, RT) at the outbreak of the protests by les gilets jaunes.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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