The Republic’s Inner Borders: Rethinking French Banlieues Through Critical Border Studies
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Scholarship on borders is still largely focused on the political boundaries and borderlands between sovereign states. However, reframing the issue of French disadvantaged banlieues through critical border studies suggests that the borders that separate socio-economically deprived neighborhoods from other urban areas are in many regards “harder” than those between France and its European neighbors. The article explores the multiple forms of territorial ordering involved in the production and reproduction of these inner borders. It draws on spatial and postcolonial approaches towards urban geopolitics to argue that the borders that enclose the banlieues constitute an essential stabilizing element in contemporary representations of the Republic.
Source: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Author: Dimitri Almeida
Institution: University of Göttingen
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3155059971