Cet article replace les attaques contre le wokisme dans la longue durée des guerres culturelles ( culture wars) aux États-Unis. Il cherche également à cerner spatialement et socialement les conséquences de cette remise en cause des théories du genre et de la race dans l’enseignement supérieur.
Early in the 21st century, the term woke became ubiquitous within the context of the culture wars. However, the meaning of the term has been notoriously difficult to pin down, and its use as a descriptor of the most bewildering range of phenomena has led many commentators to declare the word meaningless. My claim is that instead of focusing on what...
Published in Environmental Research: Climate
This paper analyzes the social processes that have led to the consolidation of a technocratic secular order and the type of cultural struggle that has made this possible. To this end, it first proposes a reconstruction of the technocratic consciousness in the course of the secularization process that culminates in the technological determinism or t...
Culture war, as an analytical category, is a modern means of cultural struggle between antagonistic positions that seeks monopoly over the legitimate representation of one’s own identity. It constructs culturally contestable relations between substantive elements such as life, religion, nation, status or race, which are heavily invested with sacred...
This article examines how the country music styles of Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash serve as a form of redistributive politics in which ideological struggles are engaged in ways that dissolve low/high culture distinctions and instead offer a mass-accessible avenue through which cultural recognition is conferred to marginalized identities. This range...
The aim of this book is to present the American political system it all its complexity so that it can be understood by everyone. The book aims to present the American political institutions, the relationships that govern them, the values that structure them as well as those that animate the citizens and the American community. The aim is also to pr...
This article explores the growing affinity for the post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church by far-right Orthodox converts in the United States, highlighting how the spiritual draw to the faith is caught up in the globalizing politics of traditionalism and a transnational, ideological reimaging of the American culture wars. Employing ethnographic fieldw...
This essay explores how conservative evangelical Protestants have been represented by both sociologists and journalists of American religion through the narrative of the “rise of the Christian Right” beginning in the late 1970s. By exploring both popular and academic analyses of conservative Protestantism as understood through terms such as “the Ch...
Extending a reading by the Nigerian activism Sokari Ekine, regarding the conflict between two opposite narratives of Queer Africa, this paper shows that both these narratives correspond to the two opposite poles of what that we can call “American culture wars” (Kaoma, 2009). Despite being mobilized by rival political groups – African leaders who pr...
