Tackling Urban Apartheid: Report from the Social Forum of Popular Neighbourhoods in Paris

Kipfer, Stefan

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00929.x

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“…Spatially nuanced projects of "slum" rehabilitation, state-managed housing redevelopment or military urbicide in other parts of the world also show that the forcible de-segregation and dispersal of subaltern groups does not bring emancipation but new forms of political domination. (Neo-)colonialism is an important force in many of these cases, albeit in historically variegated forms and not always in the political explosive ways characteristic of Paris and France (Kipfer andGoonewardena 2007, 2014). Moreover, state spatial strategies in Paris are not mere derivatives of a French "model".…”

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“…As is evident from interviews with activists from both movements, these groups developed sharp critiques of demolition as real estate speculation and social cleansing ( épuration or nettoyage social / e ). They also analysed redevelopment as an attack on the banlieues as sources of livelihood and opposition for working class immigrants (Interviews 3, 15; see also CAQP ; FSQP 2008a, 2008b; Kipfer ). These efforts at networked resistance articulated the collective consumption concerns of tenant organizations with anti‐racist traditions of struggle embodied in autonomous movements (Boubeker and Hajjat ) and non‐profit organizations ( associations ) (Withold de Wenden and Leveau ).…”

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Neocolonial Urbanism? La Rénovation Urbaine in Paris

Kipfer

2015

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This paper analyses the programme of redeveloping housing estates in France overseen by the Agence Nationale de la Rénovation Urbaine (ANRU). Under this programme social housing reconstruction is undertaken in a nationally coordinated fashion in order to “valorize”, “secure” and socially “mix” estates. The paper highlights the political and neo‐colonial aspects of this programme and the wider state spatial strategies it is part of. Redevelopment projects not only further gentrifying land‐rent valorization, state rescaling and territorially stigmatizing symbolic violence; they also reorganize territorial relations of domination in multiple, also racialized, neo‐colonial and partly hegemonic ways. In a longer view, they respond to the “urban revolution” of 1968 (Garnier) and to the “anti‐colonial revolution” of independence and anti‐racist movements (Khiari). The paper builds on a framework that articulates marxist (Lefebvrean) and anti‐colonial (Fanonian) lineages while drawing on research on the neo‐colonial aspects of the French state.

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Neocolonial Urbanism? La Rénovation Urbaine in Paris

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2015

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“…Strategies of de‐ segregation are thus needed to create the conditions for proper decolonization. On the basis of this insight, MIR have lent their qualified support to desegregating efforts such as the Forum Social des Quartiers Populaires , which emerged in the wake of the “anticolonial” revolt of 2005 (Bouteldja 2008; Khiari 2007a; Kipfer 2009).…”

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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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Rage and Fire in the French Banlieues

Dikeç

2016

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Tackling Urban Apartheid: Report from the Social Forum of Popular Neighbourhoods in Paris

Cited by 3 publications

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Neocolonial Urbanism? La Rénovation Urbaine in Paris

Neocolonial Urbanism? La Rénovation Urbaine in Paris

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

Rage and Fire in the French Banlieues

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