The Contemporary Conversation about the French Connection “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”: Neoliberal Equality and “Non-brothers”

Today’s uses of parity and diversity say much about the principle of equality in 21st-century French society. This article analyses the role they play in the contemporary conversation about the French republican motto ‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’. To that end, it addresses the way in which the use...

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Main Author: Réjane Sénac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2016-07-01
Series:Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/840
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The Contemporary Conversation about the French Connection “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”: Neoliberal Equality and “Non-brothers”
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title The Contemporary Conversation about the French Connection “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”: Neoliberal Equality and “Non-brothers”
title_short The Contemporary Conversation about the French Connection “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”: Neoliberal Equality and “Non-brothers”
title_full The Contemporary Conversation about the French Connection “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”: Neoliberal Equality and “Non-brothers”
title_fullStr The Contemporary Conversation about the French Connection “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”: Neoliberal Equality and “Non-brothers”
title_full_unstemmed The Contemporary Conversation about the French Connection “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”: Neoliberal Equality and “Non-brothers”
title_sort contemporary conversation about the french connection “liberté, égalité, fraternité”: neoliberal equality and “non-brothers”
publisher Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique
series Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
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publishDate 2016-07-01
description Today’s uses of parity and diversity say much about the principle of equality in 21st-century French society. This article analyses the role they play in the contemporary conversation about the French republican motto ‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’. To that end, it addresses the way in which the uses of parity and diversity question the dilemmas of “republican equality”, along with the political dimension of the advent of neoliberalism.
topic discrimination
diversity
parity
Republican values
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