To browse Academia. These groups espouse both feminis Indeed, in both policy domains of gender and multiculturalism, the crisis of the French republican model has been increasingly obvious. As early as the mids, the parity movement asking for gender balance in political representation, called into question the doctrine of abstract universalism enshrined in the Constitution. Simultaneously, the failures of the integration model that used to define public policies towards migrants and visible minorities have become more and more patent.
Although affirmative action measures still trigger heated public controversies, and although public institutions still use territory as a proxy for ethnicity in order to avoid collecting ethnic statistics, the dominant terms of the debate have shifted. The uprisings in the banlieues have certainly contributed to that shift. The outburst of violence at the outskirts of Paris reminded the rest of French society that the integration model favored by the elites and state institutions did not meet its goals.
Many observers linked the. International Journal of Societies, Politics and Cultures, Finally, this article endeavors to analyze the geographic relationship between political activity and cultural practices in urban landscapes. This article invites a dialogue between decolonial perspectives on diasporas and feminist standpoint theories by exploring processes of standpoint formation by women of Moroccan descent who grew up in postcolonial France.
While emphasising that these women were neither exposed to identical experiences nor have the same worldviews, the article shows that they have navigated a set of shared experiences that pertain to their social position and that they are thus aware of the manifestations in their everyday lives and of the workings of gendered and racialised social hierarchies that affect them.
The article seeks to contribute to thinking through empirically the formation of an epistemological standpoint at the crossroads of feminist and decolonial approaches.
