Badlands of the republic : space, politics and urban policy /
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. Essent...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2007.
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| Series: | RGS-IBG book series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Badlands
- Introduction : the fear of 'the banlieue'
- State's statements : urban policy as place-making
- The police
- The right to the city? : revolts and the initiation of urban policy
- Justice, police, statistics : surveillance of spaces of intervention
- From 'neighbourhoods in danger' to 'dangerous neighbourhoods' : the repressive turn in urban policy
- Justice in banlieues
- A 'thirst for citizenship' : voices from a banlieue
- Voices into noises : revolts as unarticulated justice movements
- Conclusion : space, politics and urban policy.
