Autumn 2005: A Review of the Most Important Riot in the History of French Contemporary Society

Mucchielli, Laurent

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“…Beginning with violent outbreaks in Les Minguettes (Lyon) in 1981, throughout the 1980s and 1990s there were relatively regular scenes of violence in the suburbs, including Vaulx-en-Velin (1990), Dammarie-les-Lys (1993, 1997, Nanterre (1995), Toulouse (1998), Vauvert dans le Gard (1999), Lille (2000), Les Yvelines (2002) and Nimes (2003). Scenes typically involved confrontations between groups of youths and the police, as well as the burning of cars and buildings, looting and fights involving large numbers of people (for additional detail, see Kokoreff and Lapeyronnie, 2013;Mucchielli, 2009). …”

Section: Contextualisation: the 2005 Riots And News Reporting On The mentioning

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Discourses of sameness: Expressions of nationalism in newspaper discourse on French urban violence in 2005

Costelloe

2014

Discourse & Society

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November 2005 saw a significant flashpoint in the long-running history of tensions between minority groups and those in power in France: two teenagers, allegedly while hiding from the police, were electrocuted in a Parisian electrical sub-station, which was the catalyst for the unprecedented spread of violent riots across banlieues, or urban districts, in French cities lasting for a number of weeks. Mindful of the printed news media as important sites of ideology production, this study contributes to a growing body of work on newspaper representation of the banlieues, with a focus on the particularly traumatic events of November 2005. This article examines French newspaper representations of urban violence in 2005 using a critical discourse analytical approach, focusing on how the scenes of violent rioting prompted media discussions pertaining to French national identity. It argues that national identity and expressions of nationalism are defined in an exclusionary way, and that a discourse of sameness constructs symbolic boundaries between 'us' and 'them'. The research suggests that in its reaction to the challenging events of November 2005, the printed news media adopts strategies which 'other' immigrant minorities and those living in the banlieues. Inhabitants of the banlieues are depicted as being outside the borders of the homogenously constructed French society in order to explain the violent scenes and ultimately uphold relations of discrimination and social dominance.

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Section: Contextualisation: the 2005 Riots And News Reporting On The mentioning

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Discourses of sameness: Expressions of nationalism in newspaper discourse on French urban violence in 2005

Costelloe

2014

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“…A temporary optimism that the initial violence may have been abating was aroused when a peaceful march by 500 people took place on the night of 29-30 October. Many of those involved wore t-shirts proclaiming 'Dead for nothing' in honour of the two boys (Mucchielli, 2009). However, such progress was then nullified on the evening of 30 October when two officers pursuing a group of youths directed a gas grenade into entrance of a mosque where worshippers were saying prayers for Ramadan.…”

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“…The employment prospects of male ethnic minority youths were further handicapped by poor school provision, correspondingly low academic attainment (including an annual drop-out rate of 31%), and patterns of employment discrimination that were inseparable from the stigmatization of the housing projects (Mucchielli, 2009).…”

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Recent Riots in the United Kingdom and France

Moran¹,

Waddington

2014

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A number of academic studies have sought to comparatively analyse the French riots of 2005 with those that occurred in England in 2011, yet these have been limited in their scope and depth. In this article, we set out a more comprehensive analysis of the causes and underlying meaning of these episodes of collective disorder through a systematic application of the Flashpoints Model of Public Disorder to each case. The argument identifies and considers points of overlap and tension between the various causal factors underpinning the respective riots, engaging with both the background causes (long-and short-term) and the 'triggering' event that prompted a latent potential for violence to become manifest as rioting. In addition to providing an analytical framework for the comparative study of these important episodes of rioting, the article constitutes a response to recent criticisms regarding the explanatory scope of the flashpoints model and demonstrates the continued relevance of the model as a robust conceptual framework within which the anatomy of collective disorder can be dissected and understood.

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“…The conflict unmasked France's much silenced ethnic separation before the global eye, a process surrounded by exclusionary discourses from official authorities (Body‐Gendrot, ; see also chapter 4). Then President Nicolas Sarkozy infamously claimed in public that the underlying cause of this social crisis was “the street scum's rule,” not social deprivation (see Mucchielli ). It does not require one being an anthropologist or a sociologist to tell that there was something profoundly wrong with his argument.…”

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Yearning to Labor. Youth, Unemployment, and Social Destiny in Urban France. John P.Murphy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Ayala

2019

Anthropology of Work Review

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Autumn 2005: A Review of the Most Important Riot in the History of French Contemporary Society

Cited by 37 publications

References 8 publications

Discourses of sameness: Expressions of nationalism in newspaper discourse on French urban violence in 2005

Discourses of sameness: Expressions of nationalism in newspaper discourse on French urban violence in 2005

Recent Riots in the United Kingdom and France

Yearning to Labor. Youth, Unemployment, and Social Destiny in Urban France. John P.Murphy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

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