From “Black City” to “Slum City”: The Importance of Image in Saint-Étienne

2017-09-20T05:00:00Z

In December 2014, an article in the French daily newspaper Le Monde painted a highly negative portrait of the city of Saint-Étienne, in south-eastern France, generating considerable controversy and intense mobilization. Vincent Béal, Christelle Morel Journel and Valérie Sala Pala place these reactions within the context of a long history of image-related stakes in local society and politics, and highlight the contrasting approaches adopted by inhabitants and local elites in response to the

- From the Field / France, media, image, Saint-Étienne, mobilization, shrinking cities, post-fordisme, urban decline, urban shrinkage, degrowth, shrinkage, stigma, stigmatization, post-Fordism

Shrinking Cities

2017-03-27T05:05:00Z

Brexit in the United Kingdom, the election of Donald Trump in the United States, the rise of extreme-right populist parties in France or more recently in Germany: these recent events have the common feature of being widely portrayed as the political consequences of the decline of old industrialized regions in Western countries. The question of the emergence of a “two-tier society”—characterized on the one hand by a tendency to concentrate the hopes of national economic prosperity in large

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From “Black City” to “Slum City”: The Importance of Image in Saint-Étienne

Shrinking Cities