Discrimination and Everyday Politicization in Working-Class Neighborhoods in France

Marion Carrel & translated by Oliver Waine — 2024-10-08T05:00:00Z

Drawing on a collective study, Marion Carrel highlights how experiences of discrimination structure people's relationship with politics in working-class neighborhoods. The everyday politicization resulting from these experiences, stifled by institutions, is key to explaining the unrest that followed the death of Nahel Merzouk in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre on June 27, 2023.
On June 27, 2023, in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris, a youngster aged 17, Nahel Merzouk, was killed at

- Debates / discrimination, émeutes, politisation, police, quartiers populaires

In the Name of Metropolitan Attractiveness

Clément Barbier & translated by Oliver Waine — 2023-12-08T06:00:00Z

By comparing two urban renewal projects in Lille and Hamburg, Clément Barbier shows that the staging of attractiveness by local authorities contrasts with their powerlessness to attract businesses and new residents, and that this policy is not without effects on the working-class areas concerned.
Since the early 1990s in Europe, the injunction to promote “territorial attractiveness” seems to have become widespread at all levels of government. In several conurbations, including Lille (in

- From the Field / attractivité, politiques territoriales, renouvellement urbain, métropole, projet urbain, quartiers populaires, Hambourg, Roubaix, Lille, Tourcoing

Metropolitics

Discrimination and Everyday Politicization in Working-Class Neighborhoods in France

In the Name of Metropolitan Attractiveness