Tag: France

Sitting on a balcony in Marseille

7 Jul 2023

The police shooting has reminded the French of the basic racist nature of their society that is so entrenched and pervasive it seems reductive to blame the problem on racist police - it isn’t racist police, it is a society that is divided in every way by race.

Pacific Moves: France and Australia in the Age of AUKUS

Arena Quarterly no.12

Dec 2022

The notion of France as a Pacific country surprises our closest island neighbours. Members of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, for example, see it as a European country and a colonial power.

France’s 2022 Burkini Ban: Ongoing State Policing of Muslim Women’s Bodies

28 Jul 2022

The evidence presented so far points up the hypocrisy of the French attitude towards veiled Muslim women.

Big Brother is watching French academia

18 Jun 2021

Anyone teaching or researching racism, colonialism or Islamophobia will be accused of ‘Islamo-leftism’

French Crack Down on Protestors: Solidarity and Violence

20 May 2021

…many people have been asking: ‘Would the protest have been banned if it had been pro-Israel?’

"Nature, beauty, politics By Matthew Sharpe

Bringing Them the Plague: Camus at 100

7 Jan 2014

Nature, beauty, politics By Matthew Sharpe