Politics of laïcité in France : The republican project under pressure (2004-2015)-Dr Stephanie Hennette Vauchez (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)

by | Dec 12, 2015

Over the past decade, the legal principle of laïcité [secularism] has undergone radical changes. Initially a principle that guaranteed individual religious freedom and generated obligations of neutrality for public authorities only, it has evolved into a legal ground for curtailing the former and generating the latter for private individuals as well. Hence the multiplication of situations in which individuals are legally compelled to renounce the expression of religious beliefs (at school, at work, in the public space). Thus redefined, laïcité disproportionately is opposed to Muslim women. The talk will seek to explain the ways in which such a subversion of the republican ideal of laïcité has occurred, and question the compatibility of the current state of affairs with constitutional and European law. Finally, it will also offer some theoretical insights as to the stakes associated with the articulation of the French contemporary regime of laïcitéwith notions of liberalism and equality.

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