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Language death = identity death?: The role of Provençal in speaker identities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This thesis explores the role the Provençal language plays in the identities of those who speak, or are learning to speak the language. Twelve individuals, who were either teaching, learning or had been involved with Provençal, were interviewed in semi ...
Pickett, Jessica Valerie
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European Regions and Boundaries [PDF]

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It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions—supra-national geographical designations such as “Scandinavia,” “Eastern Europe,” and “the Balkans.” Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently ...

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Political occitanism 1974 - 2000 : exploring the marginalisation of an ethnoregionalist movement [PDF]

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The thesis investigates the political wing of the Occitan ethnoregionalist movement in the south of France from 1974, a point when it had a comparatively high profile, to 2000, and analyses the reasons for its marginalisation over time.
Ritson, Sandra Elizabeth
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The Occitan Latin Idea Between Tradition and Modernity, 1870s-1880s [PDF]

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This article discusses the dual facets of Latinity—traditionalism and modernity—within the Occitan context in the late nineteenth century. It investigates how cultural Occitanism, a movement dedicated to the promotion of the Occitan language and ...
Zantedeschi, F.
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The Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV): Regional identity, violence and the challenges of modernisation in the Languedoc (1944-1992). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
PhDThis thesis analyses the Comité Régional d’Action Viticole (CRAV), an active force in the French wine industry since the mid-1960s that has consistently mobilised militant winegrowers in response to economic crisis.
Smith, Andrew William Macrae
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Musical culture and urban change in contemporary Marseille [PDF]

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This thesis considers how musical culture shapes, and is shaped by, the contested redevelopment of contemporary Marseille. Drawing on ethnographic research and documentary analysis, it investigates debates about cultural representation, struggles over ...
Mackay, S.
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Occitan Musicians, Immigration, and Postcolonial Regionalism in Southern France

open access: yes, 2020
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in southern France, this dissertation analyzes contemporary Occitan musical expression in relation to postcolonial immigration.
Trouslard, Sarah E
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Identité partisane et revendication occitane : pour en finir avec une absence en Midi Rouge : le partit occitan

open access: yes, 2004
The Partit occitan is a recent political group (1987) expressing an old demand especially on the cultural field. How to study this political group considering the typologies placed at the political observers disposal ?
Nicolas, Fabien
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Hélène Cabanes Gracia (1919-2010) : pioneer of an Occitan pedagogy

open access: yes, 2021
Hélène Cabanes (06/07/1919-19/11/2010) occupe une place de première importance dans les débuts de l'enseignement de l'occitan dans l'école publique d'après-guerre.C'est aussi une personnalité marquante à la croisée des chemins qu'elle découvre avant la ...
Canales, Philippe
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Hélène Cabanes Gracia (1919-2010) : pionnière d'une pédagogie occitaniste

open access: yes, 2021
Helen Cabanes occupies a special and important place in the debut of the occitan education in public schools after the Word War II.She’s also an important character who goes crossroads with a lot of problematics after the Liberation in France : she ...
Canales, Philippe
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