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[Education & Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling]
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This book analyzes the interaction between France's highly centralized school system and the local identity of the people of a commune in the Auvergne. Unlike other parts of France, there is no large-scale Auvergnat nationalist movement that prescribes a normative regional identity. Thus the study deals with a locally created identity uncomplicated by political forces telling people how to be "proper" peasants. Interestingly, this work focusses on the most visible aspect of the central government in the local community, its elementary school.
The author's informants use the concept debrouiller to describe their situation and their way of manipulating it to their advantage. "In …
