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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 1d

Vous voulez comprendre les racines profondes de la crise politique actuelle en France? Quoi de mieux que mon petit livre qui va paraître le 23 octobre et qui traite notamment de la désintégration du paysage politique français!

A commander en librairie ou sur Amazon: www.amazon.fr/paradoxe-fra...

Le paradoxe français: Une nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine

Le paradoxe français: Une nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine : Chabal, Emile: Amazon.fr: Books

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure what to say about French politics anymore. First as tragedy, then as farce, then as some Czech surrealist movie, then as Sébastien Lecornu..?

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 6d

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 10d

Dear Immigrant. When you’ve finished your night shift at A&E, please spend a couple of hours picking litter in the park or we’ll kick you out. Yours, the Labour Party

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 9d

I really did love this article I edited! (To see more editorial recommendations, check out the Contemporary European History editorial digest here: tinyurl.com/38p3yxky)

Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 9d

@emile-chabal.bsky.social selected Keely Stauter-Halsted's 'Negotiated Filtration', describing it as a "beautifully written examination of civil servants" in postimperial Poland, "this terrific article tells us an awful lot about how states change (and how they don’t).” [2/7]

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Negotiated Filtration: The Surprising Fate of Poland's Postimperial Civil Servants | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

Negotiated Filtration: The Surprising Fate of Poland's Postimperial Civil Servants

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 9d

Honestly, there has been enough of UK governments playing political games with immigrants' status. That's what paved the way to the Windrush Scandal. For a Labour government, having pledged to learn the lessons of Windrush, to be doing the same is really bad www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

Excerpt from an article: "According to insiders, No. 10’s decision to make digital ID mandatory and to tie it to the migration issue came at the last minute, as part of a scrabble for pre-conference announcements. The launch fell apart almost immediately on contact with reality – employers already have a legal duty to make sure their staff have a right to work, which is already enforced by them asking for ID. "

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 11d

Our collaborative book couldn't be more topical in the light of the recent announcement about digital ID cards. Mike's work on the UK is particularly relevant in thinking about why the UK doesn't have ID cards and what could happen if it tries to implement them.

Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 12d

If you want to know what a new UK digital ID for immigration would mean, read "States of Ignorance" a book that came out of an ESRC project comparing the development of UK control with two countries with ID. From this research, I think it's a dangerous idea 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

States of Ignorance

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century European History - States of Ignorance

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 13d

Sarkozy will actually go to jail? Bloody hell, things are *happening* in French politics. Never a dull moment!

PS. It's OK, I can't follow Sarko's dozens of corruption scandals either.

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 29d

Sébastien Lecornu? What a yawnfest. Somehow this end-of-reign Macron regime is managing to be totally unexpected and totally boring all at once.

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you want to reduce small boat crossings, find ways to support the arrival of family members of refugees in the UK so they won't cross irregularly (like existed for family already in the EU pre-Brexit, via the Dublin system). Instead the government is doing something that will worsen the problem

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Sep 1

BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Aug 30

There's no other way to say it: Macron boxed himself entirely into a corner by calling snap elections in 2024. Sure, there are structural conditions at work, but the responsibility here to a remarkable degree lies with him alone.

www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Avec la chute annoncée de François Bayrou, Emmanuel Macron face au risque d’un mandat déstabilisé

Bien qu’il ait repoussé le scénario d’une dissolution – qu’une partie de son camp juge inéluctable – et celui de sa démission, la pression des oppositions, le spectre d’un mouvement social d’ampleur e...

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Aug 26

Merci, Charles!

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Aug 26

Even after all these years, holding a real book you've written never, ever gets old. Especially if it's your first book in French. Feeling très emu...

PS. The book is coming out in a few weeks - order from Amazon or anywhere else you get your Francophone books! www.amazon.fr/paradoxe-fra...

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you can't get beyond the paywall, link also here: emilechabal.com/files/mistra...

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Aug 5

I wrote something for the @thetls.bsky.social about the most famous wind in France - the mistral - and an excellent little book that tries to tell a "windswept" history of modern France. www.the-tls.com/world/travel...

Icy blasts from the north have inspired French artists, writers and scientists

For holidaymakers, the Mediterranean evokes sun, sea and sand. But, for those who live there, these clichés are tempered by a climatic phenomenon rarely

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Jul 31

We're very proud of this - and we hope it'll help people find out more about the really cool things we publish!

Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · Jul 31

You can now keep up with the latest CEH news through our new series of digest blogs! The first edition includes:

🥇 CEH's move to Gold #OpenAccess
📖 Highlighted articles from each of our editors
💻 News about our move to digital-only publication

And more! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Contemporary European History digest, no. 1, January to July 2025 « News# « Cambridge Core Blog

As we - like many other journals - transition towards digital-only publication, we have become acutely aware of how difficult it can be to find out what is happening with Contemporary European History...

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just in time for the new paperback edition of the book!

Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks to @nandosigona.bsky.social for a very thoughtful review in @migrationjrnl.bsky.social of "States of Ignorance", the book of the "Seeing 'Illegal' Immigrants" project I was proud to work on with @emile-chabal.bsky.social, @christinaboswell.bsky.social & others academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

From ignorance to irregularization: notes on States of Ignorance: Governing Irregular Migrants in Western Europe edited by Christina Boswell and Emile Chabal, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20...

States of Ignorance, edited by Christina Boswell and Emil Chabal (Cambridge University Press), offers a compelling theory of “state ignorance” that sheds n

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Jun 13

I had the privilege of leaning heavily on Dónal to produce this piece - it's brilliant, go read it!

Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Jun 13

My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Jun 13

Daytime running lights have been mandatory in Europe since mid-2010s. I can't understand why they're not mandatory everywhere.

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Jun 3

Excerpt from an article Eric Hobsbawm wrote in 'New Society' upon his return from a stint as visiting professor at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 1983. Some of the anecdotes he recounted in the piece came directly from his rough field notes.

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · Jun 2

Nora was one of the great French intellectual impresarios of the postwar period and truly representative of his generation - in all its imagination and dogmatism. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

L’historien Pierre Nora est mort

Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.

www.lemonde.fr

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · May 30

This passage - from an anonymous academic - just sitting there in the middle of the article. Where do we go from here? What does one do with this statement, these thoughts?

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · May 30

Breathtaking: "I always asked myself why people stayed silent during the Second World War as the Jews were being exterminated. I know the answer now looking at Israel, looking at us: because we want to continue living our lives as before and it's too hard to look and speak".

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · May 30

Excellent, chilling reporting @lemonde.fr on neutralisation of criticism in Israel, focusing on universities. So much to unpack about complicity, power, silence. Struck also by comparisons with eg. Algerian War, Vietnam War, where campuses became hubs of resistance. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

En Israël, des universitaires tétanisés face à la guerre et à l’extrême droite : « Nous, libéraux, sommes dans une impasse »

Si la voix de quelques figures du système académique a commencé à s’élever contre le nettoyage ethnique en cours dans la bande de Gaza, la grande majorité du corps administratif et enseignant répugne ...

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · May 27

The longevity of France's nuclear testing in the South Pacific remains one of the Fifth Republic's great scandals. I'm glad the research is showing what we all knew about the cover-ups and the misinformation. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests

Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledged

www.theguardian.com

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