Voices into noises: ideological determination of unarticulated justice movements
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: This paper looks at incidents of unrest in social housing neighbourhoods in the peripheral areas (banlieues) of French cities in the 1990s. It first focuses on the responses of the French state, and demonstrates how such areas have been constituted as ‘menace’ and such incidents as ‘violence’, through the state's discursive articulations. Then, by providing an account focused on the incidents themselves, it argues that these incidents are responses to various forms of injustice, from discrimination and police brutality to constantly increasing unemployment. They are, in other words, manifestations of contention, raising claims for justice, and not merely acts of violence.
Source: Space and Polity
Author: Mustafa Dikeç
Institution: Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2048423114