1. Actualité et faits de société Licence 1 – Semestre 1
Introduction à la civilisation britannique

2. Lecture’s teacher: Maud Michaud@:

3. What are we going to try and explain this semester?
So much happened this summer across the Channel…

4. Aftershock of the Brexit Referendum…

5. Semester Calendar 12 weeks – 1 hour/week
Identity: who are the British?
Geography and demographics: how do British people organize spatially and socially?
Politics and institutions: how are British people represented and ruled over?
The UK and the World: British people and the EU, British people and the US

6. What do I do if I miss a lecture?
The powerpoint slides will be available on the ENT: Find a class: ACTUALITES ET FAITS DE SOCIETE CODE: NEWS

7. READ THE PRESS every week!

8. READ Contemporary Novels as often as you can!

9. GO TO THE CINEMA and watch films in their original language!

10. WATCH TV SERIES about Britain

11. LISTEN TO BRITISH MUSIC

12. BE CURIOUS about BRITAIN
Go to UMTICE regularly
read the press every week
read contemporary novels as often as you can
go to the cinema and watch films in English
watch British TV shows
listen to British artists

13. IDENTITY
Who are British people?

14. IDENTITY
Week 1: (today) A ‘United Kingdom’? Four nations in one country
Week 2: (Sept, 19th) Scotland and Wales: the process of devolution
Week 3: (Sept, 26th) Multiculturalism and immigration in the UK

15. A ‘United Kingdom’? Four Nations in One Country

16. What’s in a flag?

17. The flag reflects the historical construction of the UK
1536  England + Wales
1603  Union of the Crowns
1707  Act of Union with Scotland
1801  Act of Union with Ireland
1922  UK of GB and NI

18. Four Nations in One Country:

19. ‘Team GB’ in the 2016 Rio Olympics

20. Euro, 2016

21. RUGBY SIX NATIONS Tournament
The English Rose
The Scottish Thistle
The Irish Shamrock
Prince of Wales’ feathers

22. BRITISH Murray or SCOTTISH Murray?

23. STATE vs. NATION
STATE: an organised political community under one government
A State is a strictly POLITICAL entity
NATION: a human construct
To belong to a nation means to have some feeling of common destiny with one’s compatriots, to feel a common bond with the anonymous individuals in towns and cities that they have never visited
a nation: ‘an imagined community’ (Benedict Anderson)
UK model vs. France/USA

24. BRITISHNESS SCOTTISHNESS WELSHNESS IRISHNESS ENGLISHNESS

25. ENGLAND: 53 mill

26. England’s 9 regions

27. SCOTLAND: 5.3 mill 3 large sub-divisions Highlands and the islands
Central Lowlands (Edinburgh and Glasgow
Borders

28. Regional languages: Scots
Around 1.5 million Scottish people can speak Scots
- which doesn’t mean they speak this regional language only!

29. Regional languages: Scottish Gaelic
Around 60,000 Scottish people (1.2% of the Scottish population) can speak Scottish Gaelic, especially in the Outer Hebrides
- which doesn’t mean they speak this regional language only!

30. Loch Coriusk on the Isle of Skye

31. WALES: 3 mill

32. The Welsh Language (20%) Map of Welsh-speaking people, 2011
Road signs in English and Welsh

33. NORTHERN IRELAND/ULSTER: 1.8 mill

34. EIRE vs. ULSTER IRELAND: mainly Catholic
ULSTER/NORTHERN IRELAND: mainly Protestant
Unionists, loyalists, royalists ( = pro UK)
Republicans ( = pro Ireland)

35. Catholic and Protestant Belfast

36. How do you define your nationality?
Identity
2011 (%)
2012 (%)
Scottish and not British 29 23
More Scottish than British 33 30
Equally Scottish and British
More British than Scottish 5
British and not Scottish 6