EU Views: Emile Chabal
Name: Emile Chabal
Nationality: France, UK
Occupation(s): Chancellor’s Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh
Connection to Europe: Emile Chabal’s research has focused on postwar French political culture and he has published extensively on topics such as citizenship and nationhood, the legacy of imperialism in France and Franco-British relations. His first book, A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France (Cambridge University Press, 2015), is an in-depth analysis of the languages and preoccupations of French civil society and political culture from the 1970s to the present. His new project is a study of the life and work of the famous Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, to be published by Harvard University Press.
Date of interview: February 23, 2017
In this episode Olya Yordanyan talks to Emile Chabal about the uncertainty in Europe and about how to redefine the European project in a way that addresses people’s disillusion and dissatisfaction with current political arrangements. Chabal contrasts the highly individualized conception of “choice” that emerged under neoliberalism with the collective choice on which Europe’s future depends.