In 1937, Justin Godart was despatched by the Popular Front government to undertake a mission of inquiry in French India and Indochina. This article examines the objectives and repercussions of the Godart mission at a time of burgeoning Vietnamese nationalism and its repression by colonial authorities. It highlights the tensions between the Popular Front’s ‘democratic colonialism’—and the French left’s commitment to democratization more generally —and the demands of colonized subjects who were making claims to civil, social and political rights.

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“民主殖民主义”、公民身份和 1937 年戈达特前往印度支那的任务

1937 年，贾斯汀·戈达特 (Justin Godart) 受人民阵线政府派遣前往法属印度和印度支那执行调查任务。本文审视了在越南民族主义兴起并受到殖民当局镇压之际，戈达特任务的目标和影响。它突出了人民阵线的“民主殖​​民主义”——以及法国左翼对更广泛的民主化的承诺——与要求公民、社会和政治权利的殖民地主体的要求之间的紧张关系。