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2018
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Hostilities Conflict, Armed (War) Wars Armed conflict (War) Fighting Police forces Policemen Gendarmes Cops Law enforcement officers Officers, Law enforcement Officers, Police Police officers Policing Police--Legal status, laws, etc Police service Religious persecution Christians--Persecutions Jewish people Judaists Judaic people Jewry Israelites Hebrews Case Article Frenchmen (French people)Citer ce document
Ivan Ermakoff, « High stakes – Micro-history seen through the lens of exceptional cases », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire, ID : 10670/1.2cd936...
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Under what conditions can micro-history emancipate itself from the singularity of its subjects? This article looks at this question by examining the “exceptional” case – in the sense that it was a singular and unique occurrence – of French police officers sabotaging the collective arrests of foreign Jews during the Second World War. Micro-history establishes the exception as a “total empirical fact” by describing the systems of action within which individuals are embedded and by analysing how these systems interact depending on the context. From this point of view, exceptional cases allow us to challenge the accuracy of standard descriptive and explanatory categories (a critical contribution), to identify the distinctive features of a class of processes or phenomena (a paradigmatic contribution), and to highlight the conditions for their emergence (a heuristic contribution).
