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Is Paris Burning?: Diary in the Time of Crisis

Is Paris Burning?: Diary in the Time of Crisis

James Laxer
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In this digital publication, James Laxer writes a daily diary of his stay in a working class quartier of Paris during the winter of 2013. In his encounters with people in many parts of the city, he creates a portrait of Parisians in a time of socio-economic crisis that has afflicted the whole of the European Union. Plagued by unemployment, especially high youth unemployment, the French have engaged in searing debates about whether the Euro will survive and whether the government of French Socialist President Francois Hollande is even remotely up to the job of steering the French state in such a a time.

Along with economic anxiety, French society was roiled by a divisive debate about gay marriage. Laxer follows the discourse on this issue and the mobilization of the French right to combat gay marriage, and thereby to further undermine Francois Hollande.

Laxer has lived in France at various times for a total of four years. In 1989-90, he lived in France and traveled through Europe during that year of revolutions in Eastern Europe and transformation in the European Community. His travels are recorded in his book: Inventing Europe: The Rise of a New World Power, published by Lester Books, in Toronto in 1991. Since then, he has spent a couple of years in France, where he has written about the politics of the country and the European Union.
Language
English
Pages
117
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
February 15, 2014

Is Paris Burning?: Diary in the Time of Crisis

James Laxer
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In this digital publication, James Laxer writes a daily diary of his stay in a working class quartier of Paris during the winter of 2013. In his encounters with people in many parts of the city, he creates a portrait of Parisians in a time of socio-economic crisis that has afflicted the whole of the European Union. Plagued by unemployment, especially high youth unemployment, the French have engaged in searing debates about whether the Euro will survive and whether the government of French Socialist President Francois Hollande is even remotely up to the job of steering the French state in such a a time.

Along with economic anxiety, French society was roiled by a divisive debate about gay marriage. Laxer follows the discourse on this issue and the mobilization of the French right to combat gay marriage, and thereby to further undermine Francois Hollande.

Laxer has lived in France at various times for a total of four years. In 1989-90, he lived in France and traveled through Europe during that year of revolutions in Eastern Europe and transformation in the European Community. His travels are recorded in his book: Inventing Europe: The Rise of a New World Power, published by Lester Books, in Toronto in 1991. Since then, he has spent a couple of years in France, where he has written about the politics of the country and the European Union.
Language
English
Pages
117
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
February 15, 2014

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