Mustafa Dikec

Broschiertes Buch

Badlands of the Republic

Space, Politics and Urban Policy

Beschreibung

The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Rancière, this book proposes a new agenda for analyses of urban policy, and provides the first comprehensive account of French urban policy in English. * Essential resource for contextualizing and understanding the revolts occurring in the French 'badland' neighbourhoods in autumn 2005 * Challenges overarching generalizations about urban policy and contributes new research data to the wider body of urban policy literature * Identifies a strong urban and spatial dimension within the shift towards more nationalistic and authoritarian policy governing French citizenship and immigration

Autor

Mustafa Dikeç is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr Dikeç was trained as an urban planner in Ankara, Turkey. He holds a master's degree in urban design from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published articles on space, politics and justice, and on hospitality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781405156301
• ISBN-10: 1405156309
• Artikelnr.: 22718242

Rezensionen

"This is a knowledgeable, intelligent, and highly readableaccount of an issue that has featured prominently in Frenchpolitics and public policy during the last quarter of acentury." (Journal of Planning Education and Research,8 September 2008)

"It's a fine book. Doubly so, for not only does it meld theoreticaldeftness with convincing empirical information, it also has thevirtue of taking us out of our English speaking milieu...Are you aninquisitive urban geographer? If so, having read Dikeç as yourindispensable primer, next time you're in Paris leave the EiffelTower behind and go out to La Courneuve. Or in Strasbourg, view thecathedral but then board the Line C tram right next to it whichtakes you out to Le Neuhof, like La

Courneuve one of the originalsixteen social development urban neighborhoods. Get a taste ofanother, and real, urban France. Dikeç has." (GeographicalReview, December 2010)

"This brilliant empirical riff by Mustafa Dikeç onRanciere's idea of the 'given' of governmental intervention asapplied to the 'banlieue' of French cities shows how attempts torealize the ideal of 'the one and indivisible republic' throughplanning founder because French urban policy is also profoundlyinvolved with making places that violate that very ideal."
John Agnew, UCLA

"This book is an extraordinary achievement. Hardly a year afterthe momentous revolts in the banlieues of France's big cities,Mustafa Dikeç offers not only a razor-sharp dissection ofurban struggles, but, more importantly, demonstrates how thepolitics of space work in today's France and how a progressiveurban politics can be reclaimed. A must read for all thoseinterested in urban social movements and have not given up on thepossibilities for a genuinely humanising urban politics."
Erik Swyngedouw, Manchester University