Le balcon fleuri des banlieues embrasées

Guénif‐Souilamas, Nacira

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“…Indeed the role of women in the riots, whether symbolic or physical, is a subject which has been neglected in the literature relating to the riots of 2005 and 2007. For one of the few articles to broach this question see Guénif-Souilamas (2006). Also, while the age range chosen for the sample of young people reflected, to a large extent, the demographic of the peer groups to which the researcher had access, it should be noted that a number of interviewees (young people and social workers) made reference to the wide age range of those involved in the riots-from early teens to late thirties.…”

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Opposing Exclusion: The Political Significance of the Riots in French Suburbs (2005–2007)

Moran¹

2011

Modern & Contemporary France

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In 2005, following the deaths of two teenagers in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, France witnessed three weeks of widespread rioting. These events were mirrored, albeit on a smaller scale, in the nearby suburb of Villiers-le-Bel in 2007 when two local youths died in a collision involving police officers. Both during and after these respective events, many social and political commentators denounced the riots as a purely nihilistic expression of violence, a rejection of the Republic and of French society at large. However, this interpretation fails to fully consider the complexity of the situation. This essay will attempt to deconstruct the security-oriented interpretation of the violence and instead offer an analysis that views the riots of both 2005 and 2007 as a plea for access to French society on the part of those involved. Drawing on empirical fieldwork carried out in Villiers-le-Bel, the article will examine the case of Villiers-le-Bel in relation to the arguments put forward by a number of French sociologists, most notably Lapeyronnie and Kokoreff, which attributed political significance to the riots. The argument will explore the idea of the riots as a protopolitical event, that is, a primitive attempt by a socially excluded population to gain visibility in the public and political spheres.En 2005, suite à la mort de deux adolescents dans la banlieue parisienne de Clichy-sousBois, la France a vécu trois semaines d'émeutes d'une ampleur sans précédant. Ces événements se sont reproduits dans une certaine mesure en 2007 dans la banlieue voisine de Villiers-le-Bel quand deux jeunes ont trouvé la mort en percutant un véhicule de police. Pendant et après ces événements respectifs plusieurs commentateurs sociaux et politiques ont dénoncé les émeutes comme l'expression d'une violence nihiliste, un rejet de la République et de la société française. Cependant, cette interprétation ne prend pas en compte la complexité de la situation. Cet article cherche à dénouer l'interprétation sécuritaire et proposera une analyse qui considère les émeutes de 2005 et 2007 comme une demande d'accès à la société française de la part de ceux qui ont pris parti. En exploitant

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Opposing Exclusion: The Political Significance of the Riots in French Suburbs (2005–2007)

Moran¹

2011

Modern & Contemporary France

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“…Building on the legacy of ‘beur’ women’s theatre groups in the 1980s, Madani presents an all-female cast in F(l)ammes ‘parce qu’elles sont quand même expertes de leur jeunesse, des relations qu’elles ont avec les gens très proches d’eux dans le quartier mais aussi avec les gens hors du quartiers’ (Levasseur 2017). In the immediate aftermath of the 2005 riots, Guénif-Souilamas (2006) raised the question of the role of women during the violence, and challenged the notion that women were automatically passive and self-effacing in such times. She asked tellingly: Où sont les filles, où sont les sœurs, où sont les femmes, où sont les mères ?…”

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“…… Dès les premiers jours … [i]l paraît qu’il suffisait de lever les yeux pour le découvrir … Les garçons dans la fosse et les filles au balcon en train de compter les points et/ou les exhorter à rentrer chez eux, voilà qui reste indécidable. (2006: 31)…”

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In the limelight: French women from the banlieues on stage in Ahmed Madani’s F(l)ammes (2017)

Levasseur

2018

French Cultural Studies

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This article considers how French theatre has contributed to debates on the condition of women living in the banlieues in a post-2015 context of terrorist attacks and a nationwide state of emergency. Focussing on the play F(l)ammes (2017) by Ahmed Madani, which interrogates women's lived experiences, this article examines how theatre, drawing upon psychotherapeutic practices, engages with the complex interweaving of race, class and gender in marginalized French urban spaces. Using Nacira Guénif-Souilamas's analysis of women from the banlieues and Stuart Hall's work on the negotiation of multiple identities, this article suggests that F(l)ammes and the acting workshops from which it emerged eschew mass media representations of the French banlieues as violent, dangerous territories and offer an unusual, women-centred counter-discourse on the French nation.

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Decolonization in the Heart of Empire: Some Fanonian Echoes in France Today

Kipfer¹

2011

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This paper offers a translation of key texts by the contemporary Mouvement des Indigènes de la République (MIR) and its key intellectuals: Sadri Khiari and Houria Bouteldja. Following Khiari, post-colonial situations are best understood as recompositions: territorially mediated re-articulations of colonial pasts with other social relations. To respond to the complexities of this post-colonial recomposition, MIR propose an ambitious politics of "autonomy" and "mixity". "Autonomy" (externally in relationship to the state and organized politics and internally for feminist groups) is seen as an indispensable precondition for a sociopolitically mixed, and potentially universalizing, political formation politics. More countercolonial than post-colonial in orientation (Hallward), MIR attempt to give direction to three decades of revolt emanating from France's racialized popular neighbourhoods, including the uprising of 2005. I argue that MIR's interventions take up themes from the analyses by Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi and Suzanne and Aimé Césaire to make countercolonial critique "live" in France today.

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Le balcon fleuri des banlieues embrasées

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Opposing Exclusion: The Political Significance of the Riots in French Suburbs (2005–2007)

Opposing Exclusion: The Political Significance of the Riots in French Suburbs (2005–2007)

In the limelight: French women from the banlieues on stage in Ahmed Madani’s F(l)ammes (2017)

Decolonization in the Heart of Empire: Some Fanonian Echoes in France Today

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