Badlands of the Republic

Space, Politics and Urban Policy
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5630-1
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Rancière, this book proposes a new agenda for analyses of urban policy, and provides the first comprehensive account of French urban policy in English.
- Essential resource for contextualizing and understanding the revolts occurring in the French 'badland' neighbourhoods in autumn 2005
- Challenges overarching generalizations about urban policy and contributes new research data to the wider body of urban policy literature
- Identifies a strong urban and spatial dimension within the shift towards more nationalistic and authoritarian policy governing French citizenship and immigration

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dikec, Mustafa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables.

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms.

Series Editors’ Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Badlands:.

1. Introduction: The Fear of ‘the Banlieue’.

The Colour of Fear.

Organization of the Book.

2. State’s Statements: Urban Policy as Place-Making.

Neoliberalism, Neoliberalization and the City.

The Republican State and Its Contradictions.

The Republican Penal State and Urban Policy.

Part II: The Police:.

3. The Right to the City? Revolts and the Initiation of Urban Policy.

The Hot Summer of 1981: How Novel is ‘Violence’?.

Brixton in France? The Haunting of the French Republic.

The ‘Founding Texts’ of Urban Policy.

The ‘Anti-immigrant Vote’.

Consolidation of Urban Policy.

Conclusions: Consolidation of the Police.

4. Justice, Police, Statistics: Surveillance of Spaces of Intervention.

When the Margin is at the Centre.

The ‘Return of the State’.

‘I Like the State’.

Justice, Police, Statistics.

Conclusions: Looking for a ‘Better’ Police ….

… a ‘Republican’ One.

5. From ‘Neighbourhoods in Danger’ to ‘Dangerous Neighbourhoods’: The Repressive Turn in Urban Policy.

Encore! The Ghost Haunting the French Republic.

Pacte de Relance: Old Ghosts, New Spaces.

‘They are Already Stigmatized’: Affirmative Action à la française.

Is ‘Positive Discrimination’ Negative?.

Insecurity Wins the Left: The Villepinte Colloquium.

Remaking Urban Policy in Republican Terms.

Whither Urban Policy?.

The Police Order and the Police State.

Back to the Statist Geography.

Conclusions: Repressive Police.

Part III: Justice in Banlieues:.

6. A ‘Thirst for Citizenship’: Voices from a Banlieue.

Vaulx-en-Velin between Official Processions and Police Forces.

Vaulx-en-Velin after the trentes glorieuses.

A ‘Thirst for Citizenship’.

A Toil of Two Cities (in One).

Whose List is More ‘Communitarian’?.

Conclusions: Acting on the Spaces of the Police.

7. Voices into Noises: Revolts as Unarticulated Justice Movements.

Revolting Geographies.

Geographies of Repression: ‘Police Everywhere, Justice Nowhere’.

Policies of Urgency: ’20 Years for Unemployment, 20 Years for Insecurity’.

Conclusions: Form a ‘Just Revolt of the Youth’ to ‘Urban Violence’.

8. Conclusion: Space, Politics and Urban Policy.

Notes.

References.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mustafa Dikeç is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr Dikeç was trained as an urban planner in Ankara, Turkey. He holds a master’s degree in urban design from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published articles on space, politics and justice, and on hospitality.