A Copernician revolution ? Impact of purges on the professional habitus of the Belgian and French 'gendarmeries' (1944-1955)
In: Dépôt Institutionnel de l'Académie Louvain, 2008
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Between 1940 and 1944, experiences of occupation appeared traumatizing for Belgian and French “gendarmeries”, confronted with difficult alternatives. They are daily obliged to make choices relating to policing, taking part in redefinition of their professional habitus : to obey, or not? To make investigations effective, or not ? To draw up a statement or not ? To arrest a required person, or not ? With Liberation, purges (legal, administrative or extra-legal) question theses choices. They classify them in national/unnational behaviours, and civic/uncivic ones. Consequently, they introduce concept of (il)legitimacy of those. In this way, it’s necessary to interrogate their impact in terms of practices and professional identities within these two institutions. Does fundamental questioning of gendarmic identity appear during these procedures? According to which chronology? Is this the same for officers and troops? Lastly, how is this influenced by national factors of occupation ? Based on purges archives, this contribution aims to cross exit of war History of two nearby institutions. Its goal is to determine if the Occupation/purges sequence represents a Copernician revolution for law-soldiers traditional values, and more largely, a “modernization” of this.
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A Copernician revolution ? Impact of purges on the professional habitus of the Belgian and French 'gendarmeries' (1944-1955)
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Campion, Jonas ; European Social Science History Conference ; UCL - FLTR/HIST - Département d'histoire |
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Zeitschrift: | Dépôt Institutionnel de l'Académie Louvain, 2008 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2008 |
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