Papers by Christine Cadot
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- Camille Mazé, La fabrique de l’identité européenne. Dans les coulisses des m... more Lecture croisée de
- Camille Mazé, La fabrique de l’identité européenne. Dans les coulisses des musées de l’Europe, Paris, Belin, 2014, 303 pages.
- Wolfram Kaiser, Stefan Krankenhagen and Kerstin Poehls, Exhibiting
Europe in Museums. Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives and
Representations, New York, Oxford, Berghahn., (2014)
in Politique européenne, n°51, 2016
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The European Union and the Obviousness of the Beginnings. The hypothesis that the supranational s... more The European Union and the Obviousness of the Beginnings. The hypothesis that the supranational sphere escaped the political use of a founding narrative has long seemed self-evident. Yet, museums, exhibitions and textbooks on the history of the European construction are not immune to this heavy trend of an official historiography of the European Union that would unfold from the unstoppable movement of history, which no one could morally oppose. Narratives of foundation and authority figures are regularly imposed as essential cogs of a European historiography, whose guiding principle is a linear, cumulative and irreversible time, that forever turns its back on the horror of the Second World War. This article reviews these assumptions, which are often converted into common sense. It invites us to conceive a new public presentation of the history of the European construction.
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The important role museums played in the construction of nation-states in the late 18th century a... more The important role museums played in the construction of nation-states in the late 18th century and in the 19th century generated an abundant literature. In today’s word, these institutions of knowledge are unanimously recognized as lieux de mémoire, capable of generating publics and, more or less successfully, self-identifying (mostly national) collectives. The present chapter intends to analyze how two history museums are projecting a questioning a sense of belonging and its problematic relation to a common present through the celebration of a common past. In particular, we are interested in how supra-national identities are negotiated through these traditionally national agencies of culture in the exhibition C’est notre histoire!, held in 2007–2008 at the Musée de l’Europe in Bruxelles and at the National Museum of Australia, opened in Canberra in 2001. The National Museum of Australia will be regarded as an example of recent negotiations and dissents on an alternate post-national identity construction. It can allow us to revisit the idea of Europe’s museums made of new uses, practices and discourses on multiple identities and groups who were traditionally forgotten in or excluded from a clear-cut national identity. It will also allow us to examine the scenographic representations of a European identity which can not be summarized as the juxtaposition of fixed national narratives and artefacts.
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The foregoing article looks at the pictorial representation of the American Empire in “The Course... more The foregoing article looks at the pictorial representation of the American Empire in “The Course of Empire” by Thomas Cole. In 19th century America, the portrayal of the landscape and its wild expanse reflected a process of pictorial rationalization which, for Cole’s contemporaries, culminated in the celebration of a victorious empire achieving its Manifest Destiny in the West. We investigate here the heroicization of the figure of the painter and the reinterpretation of the unhappy destiny of empires – a destiny which, according to Cole, the United States will not elude. Finally, we note the new, contemporary celebration of landscape painting (Hudson River School) by US neo-conservatives, enlisting Thomas Cole once again in a cause he could not possibly have espoused.
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The street reflects the abstract characteristics of the body politics : it is as such a space whe... more The street reflects the abstract characteristics of the body politics : it is as such a space where politics and morals are grounded. Comparing the curving lines of European streets, result of centuries of history, to the American gridiron, symbol of the historical consciousness of a new beginning, leads us to explore the elaboration of an ideology, relying on geometry, in order better to oppose the New World and Old Europe. After the beginning of the French and American Revolutions, the design of the streets of Paris and Washington D.C. illustrates the difficulty to conceive the urban space of the tabula rasa, and national regeneration when the latter is confronted with the assertion of the necessary split between the Old and the New World. We carry out our study within the broader framework of the ideological process of the naturalisation of politics.
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Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2019
L’Europe dite « en crise » subit des critiques marquées quant à sa représentativité et à son fonc... more L’Europe dite « en crise » subit des critiques marquées quant à sa représentativité et à son fonctionnement jugé trop technocratique. Pour tenter d'y répondre, des acteurs organisent des usages politiques du passé, suggérant qu’une mémoire collective européenne serait susceptible de renforcer l’émergence d'un « nous » européen. D’autres, au contraire, proposent de s’en éloigner par la glorification de nouveaux romans nationaux. Le présent ouvrage propose une étude critique inédite de l’usage politique des passés relatifs à la construction européenne.
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Papers by Christine Cadot
- Camille Mazé, La fabrique de l’identité européenne. Dans les coulisses des musées de l’Europe, Paris, Belin, 2014, 303 pages.
- Wolfram Kaiser, Stefan Krankenhagen and Kerstin Poehls, Exhibiting
Europe in Museums. Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives and
Representations, New York, Oxford, Berghahn., (2014)
in Politique européenne, n°51, 2016
Chapters by Christine Cadot
Books by Christine Cadot
- Camille Mazé, La fabrique de l’identité européenne. Dans les coulisses des musées de l’Europe, Paris, Belin, 2014, 303 pages.
- Wolfram Kaiser, Stefan Krankenhagen and Kerstin Poehls, Exhibiting
Europe in Museums. Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives and
Representations, New York, Oxford, Berghahn., (2014)
in Politique européenne, n°51, 2016