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Revolting Geographies: Urban Unrest in France
Author(s) -
Dikeç Mustafa
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
geography compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.587
H-Index - 65
ISSN - 1749-8198
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00057.x
Subject(s) - unrest , inequality , universalism , context (archaeology) , colonialism , disadvantage , social unrest , geography , dimension (graph theory) , sociology , economic geography , history , political science , law , politics , archaeology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , pure mathematics
This article provides an account of urban unrest in France, with particular emphasis on the revolts of 2005 in the banlieues . It looks at some of the reasons behind the revolts, including social disadvantage, discrimination, repression, and the tensions arising from France's alleged universalism, colonial history and post‐colonial present. Then, by putting the 2005 revolts in context and comparing them to previous incidents, it points to their distinctive geographical dimension. This geographical focus shows that there is a constantly expanding geography of revolts, that this geography overlaps with geographies of inequalities, discrimination and repression, and suggests that there is a logic of resistance behind the revolts.