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Exclusionary secularism: the Front national and the reinvention of laicite

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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FRANCE
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 249-263

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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2016.1272561

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After two decades of privileged relations with Catholic traditionalism, the Front national (FN) now presents itself as the staunchest defender of laicite. This article aims to examine this alleged secular turn by analysing its relation with Marine Le Pen's strategy of normalisation. It argues that laicite in today's bleu marine FN must be understood both as a new frame to legitimise old preferences and as a strategy to reach heterogeneous constituencies. Furthermore, the article places the FN's understanding of laicite into the larger context of the diffusion of exclusionary readings of French secularism since 1989. RESUMEApres deux decennies de relations privilegiees avec le catholicisme traditionnaliste, le Front national (FN) se presente aujourd'hui comme le plus fervent defenseur de la laicite. L'article examine ce pretendu tournant laique en analysant ses liens avec la strategie de dediabolisation associee a Marine Le Pen. Il argumente que le FN sous banniere bleu marine utilise la laicite comme un cadre discursif nouveau servant a legitimer des positions anciennes ainsi que comme une strategie visant a s'adresser a des electorats distincts. En outre, l'article place la lecture frontiste du principe de laicite dans le contexte plus vaste de la diffusion de conceptions exclusives du modele laique depuis 1989.

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