The Making of the Banlieue An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence /

• Main Author: Slooter, Luuk (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Violence.; Crime.; Ethnography.; Ethnology.; Human geography.; Critical criminology.; Violence and Crime.; Cultural Anthropology.; Human Geography.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; Social Anthropology.

This book studies and disaggregates the "crisis of the suburbs" in Paris through the stories of inhabitants in 4000sud: a French suburban neighborhood. These stories have become pressing in the aftermath of the recent wave of terrorist attacks in France. The French banlieues are some of th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Making of the Suburban Crisis by State Actors
• 3. Ethnographic Research: Discovery of the 'Field'
• 4. The Internal Place-Making Process
• 5. Social Identification Strategies and the Dynamics of 'Us' and 'Them'
• 6. Manifestations and Interpretations of Violence
• 7. Conclusion.