Badlands of the republic : space, politics and urban policy
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Badlands of the republic : space, politics and urban policy
(RGS-IBG book series)
Blackwell, 2007
- : hardcover
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-211) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Ranciere, 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
Table of Contents
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 a la francaise.
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
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