EAN: 9783030182090

THE MAKING OF THE BANLIEUE - LUUK SLOOTER GEBUNDEN

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 the most prominent and infamous examples of urban neighborhoods affected by vandalism 
rioting  criminality and chronic poverty. Based on extensive ethnographic research  the book
explores the making of the French suburban crisis as constituted both externally (by state
actors) and internally  by young people at the street corner. It reveals how the French state's
understanding of banlieue violence  and subsequent policy measures  contribute to the creation
and hardening of boundaries between us and them. 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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