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 …

Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects
of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the …

This book confronts the challenge of difference for rethinking everyday multiculture. It
proposes both a theory and practice of a critical pedagogy of popular culture through an …

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle
without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self …

The Parisian banlieues, long absent from the dominant French imaginary, have materialized
as spatialized, racialized markers of political-economic crisis, social fragmentation, crime …

A turn to 'cultural diversity'in the curriculum offers a multitude of opportunities for educational
practitioners: questioning Eurocentric knowledge; deconstructing 'marginality'; recognising …

In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the banlieues, minority communities
are turning to American culture, history, and theory to make their own voices, cultures, and …

This article expands on previous discussions of La Haine by concentrating specifically on
the construction of the image of the Jew within the film's representation of a multi-ethnic …

From the 1995 release of La Haine, critics have questioned whether Jewish-French film
director Mathieu Kassovitz is 'authentic enough'to speak for the ethnic banlieue. Yet La …

Die vorliegende Arbeit fasst zeitgenössische europäische Filme aus Deutschland,
Großbritannien und Frankreich unter dem Begriff der Entgrenzungsfilme zusammen. Die …