An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence
Buch, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
ISBN: 978-3-030-18212-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
The book takes the reader on a journey from the city center of Paris to the heart of neighborhood 4000sud. It unveils how young suburban residents try to cope simultaneously with the negative images imposed on them from the outside, and the disciplinary expectations of their peers on the street. In search for identity and dignity they navigate life through diverging strategies: they escape the neighborhood, contest stereotypical images through (violent) protest, or confirm and act out the image of "gangster from the ghetto". Drawing on Urban Sociology, Human Geography, and Cultural Anthropology, this book offers new analytical vocabularies to understand the connections between place-making processes, social identity dynamics and violent performances. The book is written for a broad audience of students, scholars and policy makers interested in contemporary (sub)urban violence in Europe.
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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
The French case: a European exception?
Reified images of the banlieue and its young inhabitants
Beyond the dichotomy of ‘outside clichés versus inside reality’
A journey from Paris to the cité, a dialogue between theory and empirical data
Chapter 2 The Making of the Suburban Crisis by State Actors:
A Journey through the Decades Seen from Paris City Centre
Preparing the analysis: frames, practices and violence
Governmentality: frames and practices of governance
Violent events as turning points of founding phases
The changing governing frames and practices in four phases
Phase 1: 1950-70s from newly constructed sunny apartments to segregated stressed inhabitants
Phase 2: 1981 rodéos in Les Minguettes
Phase 3: 1990 Vaulx-en-Velin/Mas du Taureau
Phase 4: 2005 Clichy-sous-Bois and beyond
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Ethnographic Research: Discovery of the ‘Field’:
Walking from the RER Station into the Heart of Cité 4000sud
Exploring ethnography
Discovery of the ‘field’
Doing ethnography
Data collection: participant observation, interviews, neighbourhood mapping
Trust and tensions
The ‘zoo’: observing and the observee
Obstacles and golden rules?
A fly on the wall?
Conclusion
Chapter 4 The Internal Place-Making Process:
Claiming Space at the Bottom of the Balzac Building
French ghettos?
“A sociological absurdity”
“A sociological reality”
From a fixed definition of the ghetto to a liquid process of place-making
The Balzac drama: a multi-actor struggle about space
The internal place-making process: routines in everyday life
Routines of naming and narratives
Routines of ‘trainer’
Routines of surveillance
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Social Identification Strategies and the Dynamics of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’:
Navigating Life in Front of the Budget DIA-supermarket
Identities: definitions and tools
Studying ‘jeunes des banlieues/cités’
Three sets of social identification strategies
Dissociating strategies – Positional moves
Transforming strategies – Blurring, adding and transvaluing
Associating strategies – Inscribing victimhood and street life
Navigating strategies
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Manifestations and Interpretations of Violence:
Burning Cars and Dealing Drugs behind Le Mail
Violence: towards a better grip on a slippery concept
The manifestation and interpretation of violence
The manifestation of violence
Repertoire 1: Audience-oriented violence
Repertoire 2: Backstage–oriented violence
The interpretation of violence
The effectiveness of violence: the presence of absence
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Conclusion
