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
Author(s): Mustafa Dikec
Series: RGS-IBG Book Series
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 236
Contents......Page 7
Figures and Tables......Page 9
Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 11
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Part I: Badlands......Page 17
1: Introduction: The Fear of ‘the Banlieue’......Page 19
The Colour of Fear......Page 23
Organization of the Book......Page 30
2: State’s Statements: Urban Policy as Place-Making......Page 32
Neoliberalism, Neoliberalization and the City......Page 40
The Republican State and Its Contradictions......Page 44
The Republican Penal State and Urban Policy......Page 47
Part II: The Police......Page 51
3: The Right to the City? Revolts and the Initiation of Urban Policy......Page 53
The Hot Summer of 1981: How Novel is ‘Violence’?......Page 55
Brixton in France? The Haunting of the French Republic......Page 56
The ‘Founding Texts’ of Urban Policy......Page 64
The ‘Anti-immigrant Vote’......Page 72
Consolidation of Urban Policy......Page 76
Conclusions: Consolidation of the Police......Page 80
4: Justice, Police, Statistics: Surveillance of Spaces of Intervention......Page 84
When the Margin is at the Centre......Page 87
The ‘Return of the State’......Page 91
‘I Like the State’......Page 94
Justice, Police, Statistics......Page 96
Conclusions: Looking for a ‘Better’ Police . . .......Page 103
. . . a ‘Republican’ One......Page 106
5: From ‘Neighbourhoods in Danger’ to ‘Dangerous Neighbourhoods’: The Repressive Turn in Urban Policy......Page 109
Encore! The Ghost Haunting the French Republic......Page 110
Pacte de Relance: Old Ghost, New Spaces......Page 113
‘They are Already Stigmatized’: Affirmative Action à la française......Page 115
Is ‘Positive Discrimination’ Negative?......Page 120
Insecurity Wins the Left: The Villepinte Colloquium......Page 122
Remaking Urban Policy in Republican Terms......Page 125
Whither Urban Policy?......Page 130
The Police Order and the Police State......Page 134
Back to the Statist Geography......Page 136
Conclusions: Repressive Police......Page 140
Part III: Justice in Banlieues......Page 143
Vaulx-en-Velin between Official Processions and Police Forces......Page 145
Vaulx-en-Velin after the trente glorieuses......Page 147
A ‘Thirst for Citizenship’......Page 150
A Toil of Two Cities (in One)......Page 152
Whose List is More ‘Communitarian’?......Page 158
Conclusions: Acting on the Spaces of the Police......Page 163
7: Voices into Noises: Revolts as Unarticulated Justice Movements......Page 168
Revolting Geographies......Page 169
Geographies of Repression: ‘Police Everywhere, Justice Nowhere’......Page 174
Policies of Urgency: ‘20 Years for Unemployment, 20 Minutes for Insecurity’......Page 178
Conclusions: From ‘a Just Revolt of the Youth’ to ‘Urban Violence’......Page 182
8: Conclusion: Space, Politics and Urban Policy......Page 186
Notes......Page 194
References......Page 210
Index......Page 228
