Dr Graeme Hayes

Senior Lecturer and Director of French Studies

Room: MB773
Telephone: 0121 204 3805
E-mail: g.a.hayes@aston.ac.uk

Profile

I studied Modern European Studies as an undergraduate at Loughborough University, before spending a couple of years as an English language assistant (lecteur) at Nancy University in France. In 1992, I got a job lecturing in French at the University of Wolverhampton, and started a part-time Phd at the University of Manchester on French environmental protests. I was awarded my PhD in 2000, and the following year the Political Studies Association awarded it the Walter Bagehot prize for best dissertation in Government and Public Administration. In 2001 I moved from Wolverhampton to Nottingham Trent University, where I became French subject leader in 2003. After six years at Nottingham Trent, I moved here to Aston in 2007.

My research interests are in the politics of protest and of cinema in France. My work on social protest currently centres on civil disobedience campaigns in France, on which I’m now writing a book. My publications include a book, Environmental Protest and the State in France, and recent articles on Green protest in France in the journals Environmental Politics and French Politics. In 2006, I became the first recipient of the Dick Richardson prize for best Green politics papers at an ECPR Joint Sessions for my paper on protest against GMOs in France. I am joint convenor of the ECPR’s Green Politics Standing Group and co-editor of Social Movement Studies. With John Karamichas, I organised a conference on green issues, civil society and sporting ‘mega-events’ (including Olympic Games) in London in June 2008; we are now working on an edited book on these issues (see also my article in The Guardian, 2 July 2008). My work on film centres on popular cinema, film policy and economic concentration in France, particularly looking at the effects of new technologies and infrastructures (such as digital distribution and multiplexes) on pluralism and access to film. With Martin O’Shaughnessy, I have co-edited a volume on French cinema and political engagement for L’Harmattan, and a special issue of French Politics, Culture & Society on French cinema and globalisation.

Qualifications

BA in Modern European Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, 1989.

PhD, Political Opportunity Structures and Environmental Protest in the French Fifth Republic, Department of Government, University of Manchester, 2000.

Teaching

French politics, French cultural studies, French language.

Research interests

Environmental and counter-globalisation protest movements
French political culture and social protest
Political economy of French film
Globalisation and cinema

Publications

Books and special issues

Environmental Protest and the State in France. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. ISBN: 0 333 99043 9.
Graeme Hayes & Martin O’Shaughnessy (eds), Cinéma et engagement. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005. ISBN: 2 7475 7841 0.
Graeme Hayes & Martin O’Shaughnessy, Guest editors, French Politics, Culture and Society, 23/3, Winter 2005. Special issue on French Cinema and Globalization.

Journal articles

‘Collective Action and Civil Disobedience: The Anti-GMO Campaign of the Faucheurs Volontaires’, French Politics, 5/4, December 2007, pp.293-314.
‘Vulnerability and Disobedience: New Action Repertoires and Environmental Protest in France’, Environmental Politics, 15/5, November 2006, pp.821-38.
‘Regulating Multiplexes: The French State between Corporatism and Globalization’, French Politics, Culture and Society, 23/3, Winter 2005, pp.14-33.
‘French Cinema: Globalization, Resistance and Representation’, French Politics, Culture and Society, 23/3, Winter 2005, co-authored with Martin O’Shaughnessy, pp.1-13.
‘Resistancialism revisited: masculinity and national identity in Claude Berri’s Lucie Aubrac’, Studies in French Cinema, 1/2, Summer 2001, pp.108-17.
‘Exeunt chased by bear: discourse, action, and the environmental opposition to the Somport tunnel’, Environmental Politics, 9/2, Summer 2000, pp.126-48.
‘Replaying history as farce: postmodernism and the construction of Vichy in Delicatessen’, Modern & Contemporary France, 7/2, May 1999, pp.197-207.

Book chapters

‘A Tale of Two Movements. Manifestations anti-OGM en Grande-Bretagne et en France’, in David Hiez & Bruno Villalba (eds), La Désobéissance civile. Approches politiques et juridiques sur la situation française. Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2008. Co-authored with Brian Doherty.
‘Screen Grab: Popular Cinema and the Transformation of Film Exhibition in France’, in Isabelle Vanderschelden & Darren Waldron (eds), France at the Flicks: Trends in Contemporary French Popular Cinema, pp.16-35. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. ISBN 1-84718-301-8.
‘Du Rififi chez les Hommes’, in Phil Powrie (ed.), The Cinema of France, pp.70-79. London: Wallflower Press, 2006. ISBN 1-904764-46-0.
‘Multiplexes et résistance(s): la recherche d’Utopia’, in Graeme Hayes & Martin O’Shaughnessy (eds), Cinéma et engagement, pp.199-222. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005.
‘Introduction. Repenser le cinéma engagé’, co-authored with Martin O’Shaughnessy, in Graeme Hayes & Martin O’Shaughnessy (eds), Cinéma et engagement, pp.7-23. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005.
‘Framing the wolf: Alain Delon, spectacular masculinity, and the French crime film’, in Phil Powrie, Ann Davies, and Bruce Babington (eds), The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema, pp. 42-53. London: Wallflower Press, 2004. ISBN 1 904764 08 8.
‘Representation, masculinity, nation: the crises of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf’, in Phil Powrie (ed), French cinema in the 1990s: continuity and difference, pp.199-210. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0 19 815957 9.
‘Environmental politics in France: a place for single-issue groups?’, in Maggie Allison & Owen Heathcote (eds), Forty years of the Fifth French Republic: actions, dialogues and discourses, pp.55-75. Bern: Peter Lang, 1999. ISBN 3 906763 66 8.