Waters, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-0949-126X (2011) French Intellectuals and Globalisation: A War of Worlds. French Cultural Studies, 22 (4). pp. 303-320. ISSN: 0957-1558
Abstract
French intellectuals have been at the forefront of a national and international movement of opposition to neo-liberal globalisation. Drawing on Samuel Huntington’s controversial work, The Clash of Civilisations, I will argue that French intellectuals shared a civilisational perspective of globalisation, seeing it not as a piecemeal market process or economic reform, but as an all-encompassing external threat. This civilisational perspective had contradictory effects on the nature of their opposition. On the one hand, intellectuals were able to produce a radical critique that challenged neo-liberalism and reinscribed the market within a specific political and ideological context. On the other hand, they tended to perpetuate an essentialist view of globalisation that saw this not as an economic process but as an expression of a pre-determined Anglo-Saxon type.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2025 08:04 |
Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2025 08:04 |
Published Version: | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/095715581... |
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Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0957155811419562 |
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