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

by Luuk Slooter

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030182126
• ISBN13: 9783030182120
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"