2015/06/25 by Andrew W.M. Smith, James Hawkey · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Anthropology #Art #Cultural Identity and Heritage #Ethnology #History #Identity (music) #Law #Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies #Medieval European Literature and History #National identity #Political science #Politics #Regionalism (politics) #Sociology #State (computer science)
paper · doi:10.1080/09639489.2015.1043983
openalex publication_date 2015/06/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
During the summer of 1907, France experienced one of its largest social disturbances since the Revolution, as the winegrowers of the Languedoc-Roussillon led a mass protest movement that paralysed the region and challenged the state. Although the Grande Révolte evoked references to the Albigensian Crusade, and juxtaposed North and South, it never fully represented a moment of Occitan regionalist rising. The failure of the cultural organisation the Félibrige to fully engage with protesters led to a fissure between political and cultural expressions of Occitan identity that marked the movement thereafter. By combining linguistic anthropology and historical analysis, the authors are able to foreground a key aspect of national identity formation as it occurred in 1907. Considering the impact of the Grande Révolte on the identity and language of the Midi offers us an insight into the development of regionalism both within and beyond the borders of the French nation.