Thèse--Aix-Marseille. / Cover title. Without thesis statement. Bibliography: p. 9-12.

Thèse - Université de Paris. / "Sources": p. [11] 14. "Bibliographie": p. [15]-20.

Thèse - Université de Paris. / "Sources": p. [11] 14. "Bibliographie": p. [15]-20.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Paris. / Includes bibliographical references (p. v-vii).

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Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Anthropologie sociale--EHESS Marseille, 2007. / Bibliogr., 9 p. Index.

The purpose of this thesis is threefold: firstly, to serve as a contribution to the history of the Marseilles working class; secondly to illustrate the impact of the Popular Front at local level; and thirdly, to act as a case study of working-class mobilisation. In the first section of the thesis the Marseilles working class is briefly described. It was highly heterogeneous, being made up of various racially, occupationally, and spatially-defined communities. The divisions between these communities were to some extent neutralised by a strong sense of the local community of Marseilles. Marseilles' claim to special status within the nation was, however, increasingly coming under challenge. Prior to the Popular Front the most successful political organisations on the Left in Marseilles integrated themselves into the rich community life of the town by playing down ideological issues and by practising the politics of locally-based clientelism rather than those of class. The movement for the Popular Front encouraged a new mood of militancy within the Marseilles working class which both contributed to, and was itself encouraged by, the growth of Communist influence within the Popular Front alliance. At different moments the strikes of the period facilitated or prejudiced the unity of the working class and its integration into the nation. Initially (1934-1937), the strikes which were undertaken advanced the interests of workers against those of employers whilst increasing working-class unity and support for the Popular Front. At the same time the election of a Popular Front Government and its success in resolving strikes to the satisfaction of workers aided the integration of the working class into a new, enlarged, national political consensus. The fragility of this consensus was, however, later revealed (1938-1939), as the Government called for sacrifices in the workplace and the Communists called fcr the launching of an unpopular war against fascism.

The thesis concerns the linguistic landscape (LL) of two neighbourhoods, one in Pretoria, South Africa, and the other in Marseille, France. This is a longitudinal study whose data was collected over two years of site visits. LL are explored in terms of both space and place. In terms of place, they are seen to be constitutive of a sense of place, allowing insights into memory, aspiration, and familial and cultural networks. Spatially, they are seen to realise a politics where design and distribution of LL are markers of power and modality. Analysis takes its point of departure in geosemiotics. Artefacts of LL are interpreted as sites of encounter of four cycles of discourse: the interaction order, habitus, semiotics of place and visual semiotics. The focus is on understanding LL artefacts, their production and reception, as a nexus of practice. Methodologically, walking - as a creative practice, and as an actualisation of the place and space of the neighbourhood - is chosen for photographing LL, for observing interactions and for meeting participants to the research. In examining habitus, the discourses, literacy and narratives of the people who live, work and pass through the site are compared. Deep social and economic similarities are noted between the two sites. Exploration of the semiotics of place brings to light regularities in the features of formal and informal LL, the nature of participation with and subversion of these texts, but also disparities among producers and receivers in terms of literacy, access, the socio-cultural and the socio-economic. Visual semiotic analysis continues these findings and it is noted that global and local discourses of identification, aspiration and self-stylisation circulate transversally in the sites. LL are taken to realise a politics of space when multimodal analysis of composition and modality is extended to the streetscape, as LL ensemble. A key facet of the research is the interpretation of informal LL. Their inclusion challenges existing LL methodologies by flagging the necessity to ground quantitative findings ethnographically.

Dans un contexte de désindustrialisation et de mondialisation, les villes sont amenées à repenser leurs vecteurs de développement et de rayonnement. La culture et le tourisme occupent une place probante dans cette dynamique, et se trouvent au cœur de la notion de métropole culturelle. Toutefois, on constate un manque de recherches scientifiques sur cette dernière, et c'est pourquoi le présent mémoire a pour objectif de dresser le profil de la métropole culturelle. Pour ce faire, des entrevues semi-dirigées ont été effectuées auprès d'acteurs des villes de Marseille et de Montréal, afin de saisir les phases, les caractéristiques, les enjeux et les motivations intrinsèques à la naissance et à l'évolution d'une métropole culturelle. Les résultats issus de ces données qualitatives ont permis d'identifier et de classer les indicateurs pertinents ; de cerner les forces, les freins, mais aussi des propositions envisageables ; tout en mettant en exergue les motivations des leaders. Il en ressort que la métropole culturelle naît d'ambitions et d'une vision commune de la part des acteurs locaux, désireux de transformer durablement leur territoire à travers l'imbrication de projets de natures culturelle, économique, de gestion, sociale et urbaine. De cette détermination à collaborer émerge alors une plateforme incontournable d'échanges culturels, économiques et sociaux. ______________________________________________________________________________