Download or read book Empire on the Seine written by Amit Prakash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amit Prakash draws on extensive archival materials to understand the colonial legacy of how minority populations have been policed in twentieth century Paris, showing how colonial racism was integrated into the policing of Paris, and that architecture, urbanism, and social housing contributed to this legacy.
Download or read book Les bidonvilles written by Thierry Paquot and published by La Découverte. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ensemble de constructions hâtivement bâties avec des matériaux de fortune sur un terrain squatté non viabilisé, destiné à une population pauvre exclue de tout, le bidonville est l'une des modalités de l'urbanisation planétaire, née à la fin du XIXe siècle et qui abritera près de 2 milliards d'habitants en 2030. Le phénomène s'est considérablement amplifié avec l'exode rural et l'extension des mégalopoles en ouvrant l'éventail des situations : certains bidonvilles centenaires se sont branchés sur les réseaux d'eau et d'électricité, des bicoques sont dorénavant en " dur " et disposent d'un jardinet, d'autres encore représentent le degré zéro de l'habitabilité avec quelques planches maladroitement clouées entre elles et surmontées d'un bout de tôle. Cet ouvrage retrace la géohistoire des bidonvilles, présente les principales théories socio-anthropologiques qui en expliquent la genèse et la pérennité, s'attarde sur leurs représentations tant romanesques que cinématographiques et évalue ce que ces " villes " incomplètes et inconfortables apportent à l'architecture de survie et à l'urbanisation sans urbanisme.
Download or read book Making Space written by Melissa K. Byrnes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa Byrnes explores the ways local communities in the French suburbs reacted to the growing presence of North African migrants in the decades after World War II and the decolonization of Algeria.
Download or read book The Riviera Exposed written by Stephen L. Harp and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping social and environmental history, The Riviera, Exposed illuminates the profound changes to the physical space that we know as the quintessential European tourist destination. Stephen L. Harp uncovers the behind-the-scenes impact of tourism following World War II, both on the environment and on the people living and working on the Riviera, particularly North African laborers, who not only did much of the literal rebuilding of the Riviera but also suffered in that process. Outside of Paris, the Riviera has been the most visited region in France, depending almost exclusively on tourism as its economic lifeline. Until recently, we knew a great deal about the tourists but much less about the social and environmental impacts of their activities or about the life stories of the North African workers upon whom the Riviera's prosperity rests. The technologies embedded in roads, airports, hotels, water lines, sewers, beaches, and marinas all required human intervention—and travelers were encouraged to disregard this intervention. Harp's sharp analysis explores the impacts of massive construction and public works projects, revealing the invisible infrastructure of tourism, its environmental effects, and the immigrants who built the Riviera. The Riviera, Exposed unearths a gritty history, one of human labor and ecological degradation that forms the true foundation of the glamorous Riviera of tourist mythology.
Download or read book Massive Suburbanization written by K. Murat Güney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Suburbanization investigates the building and rebuilding of urban peripheries on a global scale. Offering a universal inter-referencing point for research on the dynamics of "massive suburbia," this book builds a new discussion pertaining to the problems of the urban periphery, urbanization, and the neoliberal production of space. Conceptual and empirical chapters revisit the classic cases of large-scale suburban building in Canada, the former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and the United States and examine the new peripheral estates in China, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the Philippines, South Africa, and Turkey. The contributors examine a broad variety of cases that speak to the building or redevelopment of large-scale peripheral housing estates, tower neighbourhoods, Grands Ensembles, Gro?wohnsiedlungen, and Toplu Konut. Concerned with state and corporate policy for building suburban estates, Massive Suburbanization confronts the politics surrounding local inhabitants and their "right to the suburb."
Download or read book Disintegrating Empire written by Elise Franklin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disintegrating Empire examines the entangled histories of three threads of decolonization: the French welfare state, family migration from Algeria, and the French social workers who mediated between the state and their Algerian clients. After World War II, social work teams, midlevel bureaucrats, and government ministries stitched specialized social services for Algerians into the structure of the midcentury welfare state. Once the Algerian Revolution began in 1954, many successive administrations and eventually two independent states—France and Algeria—continuously tailored welfare to support social aid services for Algerian families migrating across the Mediterranean. Disintegrating Empire reveals the belated collapse of specialized services more than a decade after Algerian independence. The welfare state’s story, Elise Franklin argues, was not one merely of rise and fall but of winnowing services to “deserving” clients. Defunding social services—long associated with the neoliberal turn in the 1980s and beyond—has a much longer history defined by exacting controls on colonial citizens and migrants of newly independent countries. Disintegrating Empire explores the dynamic, conflicting, and often messy nature of these relationships, which show how Algerian family migration prompted by decolonization ultimately exposed the limits of the French welfare state.
Download or read book The Marseille Mosaic written by Mark Ingram and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly the gateway to the French empire, the city of Marseille exemplifies a postcolonial Europe reshaped by immigrants, refugees, and repatriates. The Marseille Mosaic addresses the city’s past and present, exploring the relationship between Marseille and the rest of France, Europe, and the Mediterranean. Proposing new models for the study of place by integrating approaches from the humanities and social sciences, this volume offers an idiosyncratic “mosaic,” which vividly details the challenges facing other French and European cities and the ways residents are developing alternative perspectives and charting new urban futures.
Download or read book L enfant des bidonvilles written by François Lefort and published by Bouquineo. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Réédition d'un livre publié en 1980, L'enfant des bidonvilles relate l'itinéraire véridique d'un jeune des bidonvilles de 1956 à 1975. J'ai recueilli ses propos en personne à l'époque, ce qui me permet de retracer ici sa vie dans le bidonville, son expérience de la Dass de Denfert-Rochereau dans les années soixante, de la maison de correction de Savigny, des cités de transit, de l'expulsion de France...
Download or read book Un monde de bidonvilles Migrations et urbanisme informel written by Julien Damon and published by Média Diffusion. This book was released on 2017-10-19T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La dynamique planétaire d'urbanisation passe par l'extension des bidonvilles dans les pays en développement. C'est un huitième de l'humanité qui vit aujourd'hui dans ces espaces. Parallèlement, le retour des bidonvilles et des campements illégaux en France suscite inquiétude, voire alarmisme, sur fond de " crise des migrants ". Pour certains, les bidonvilles doivent être éradiqués comme des foyers d'insalubrité et de criminalité. Pour d'autres, ils constituent un laboratoire de la ville durable, à la fois piétonne, écologique, participative et recyclable. Et si les bidonvilles, au lieu de renvoyer uniquement à un passé effrayant, inventaient aussi des solutions pour l'avenir ? Julien Damon est professeur associé à Sciences Po et conseiller scientifique de l'École nationale supérieure de sécurité sociale (En3s). Il a été chef du service " Questions sociales " au Centre d'analyse stratégique et directeur des études à la Caisse nationale des allocations familiales.
Download or read book Villes et bidonvilles du Tiers Monde written by Jean Van Bergenhenegouwen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arrival Neighborhoods in Europe since the mid 19th Century written by David Templin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the concept of "arrival spaces" to examine the relationship between migration processes, social infrastructures, and the transformation of urban spaces in Europe since the mid-19th century. Case studies cover cities from London to Palermo and from Antwerp to St. Petersburg, including both metropolises and small towns. The chapters examine the emergence of settlement patterns, the functioning of arrival infrastructures, and the public representations of neighborhoods which have been shaped by internal or international migrations. By understanding these neighborhoods as spaces of arrival and as infrastructural hubs, this volume offers a new perspective on the profound impact of migration on European cities in modern and contemporary history. This volume makes a valuable contribution to both migration research and urban history and will be of interest to researchers and students studying the relationship between cities and migration in Europe’s past and present.
Download or read book An Address in Paris written by Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After West African migrants arrived in France in the 1960s, the authorities opened residences for them known as “foyers.” Initially intended to contain the West African population, these hostels for single men fostered the emergence of Black communities in the heart of Paris and other cities. More recently, however, a nationwide renovation program sought to replace the collective living arrangements of foyers with more individualized spaces by constructing new buildings or drastically reshaping existing ones—and casting the West African presence as a threat to French identity. Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West African migrants, weaving together rich ethnographic description with a critical historical account. She shows how migrants settled in foyers through kinship ties, making these buildings key parts of diasporic networks. Migrants also forged a sense of place in foyers, in an intricate relationship with bureaucratic requirements such as having an address. Mbodj-Pouye scrutinizes the physical and social evolution of foyers and the administrative dynamics that governed them. She argues that even though these buildings originated in state attempts to manage migrants along racial lines, the shared way of life that they encouraged helped spark a sense of political agency and belonging whose significance extends far beyond their walls. Combining close attention to the social and cultural meanings of the foyers and keenly observed portraits of Black experiences in France across decades, An Address in Paris offers a new lens on the global African diaspora.
Download or read book Leftist Internationalisms written by Michele Di Donato and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a new perspective on the political history of the socialist, communist and alternative political Lefts, focusing on the role of networks and transnational connections. Embedding the history of left-wing internationalism into a new political history approach, it accounts for global and transnational turns in the study of left-wing politics. The essays in this collection study a range of examples of international engagement and transnational cooperation in which left-wing actors were involved, and explore how these interactions shaped the globalization of politics throughout the 20th century. In taking a multi-archival and methodological approach, this book challenges two conventional views - that the left gradually abandoned its original international to focus exclusively on the national framework, and that internationalism survived merely as a rhetorical device. Instead, this collection highlights how different currents of the Left developed their own versions of internationalism in order to adapt to the transformation of politics in the interdependent 20th-century world. Demonstrating the importance of political convergence, alliance-formation, network construction and knowledge circulation within and between the socialist and communist movements, it shows that the influence of internationalism is central to understanding the foreign policy of various left-wing parties and movements.
Download or read book Social Justice in Twentieth Century Europe written by Martin Conway and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. But what does it mean in different national histories and political regimes, and how has this changed over time? This book provides the first historical account of the evolution of notions of social justice across Europe since the late nineteenth century. Written by an international team of leading historians, the book analyses the often-divergent ways in which political movements, state institutions, intellectual groups, and social organisations have understood and sought to achieve social justice. Conceived as an emphatically European analysis covering both the eastern and western halves of the continent, Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe demonstrates that no political movement ever held exclusive ownership of the meaning of social justice. Conversely, its definition has always been strongly contested, between those who would define it in terms of equality of conditions, or of opportunity; the security provided by state authority, or the freedom of personal initiative; the individual rights of a liberal order, or the social solidarities of class, nation, confession, or Volk.
Download or read book Urban Revolutions written by Stefan Kipfer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on struggles and debates in France, Martinique and Canada, Urban Revolutions shows how research on the (neo-)colonial dimensions of capitalist urbanization deepens the relationship between Marxist and anti-colonial traditions, including those represented by Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon.
Download or read book Modernising Post war France written by Nicholas Bullock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central priority of the state, promising a way forward from the shame of defeat in 1940 to a place at the centre of the new Europe. The first part of the book examines the scale of transformation, showing how architecture and urbanism both served the cause of modernisation and shaped the identity of the new France. Mainstream modernism was co-opted to the service of the state, from major public buildings to Gaullist plans for the transformation of Paris to establish the city as the ‘capital’ of Europe. By contrast, the second part of the book explores the critique of state-sponsored modernisation by radical architects from Le Corbusier to the young Turks of the 1960s such as Georges Candilis and the students who attacked the banality of mainstream modernism and its inability to address the growing problems of France’s cities. Following May 1968, the Beaux-Arts was closed, the Grand Prix de Rome, symbol of the old order, abolished – for a while the establishment might continue as before, but progressive architecture was set on a new course. Beautifully illustrated and written to be accessible to all, the book sets the discussion of architecture and urbanism in its social, political and economic contexts. As such, it will appeal both to students and scholars of the history of architecture and urbanism and to those with a wider interest in France’s post-war history.
Download or read book Bidonvilles l enlisement written by Marie-Ange Charras and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1971-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis plus de dix ans qu’associations, groupements et commissions gouvernementales se sont donnés pour objet la lutte anti-bidonville, le nombre des familles vivant en bidonvilles dans la région parisienne a augmenté de 20 % si l’on compare les deux recensements officiels, 1966 et 1970 (ce dernier publié dans la presse en 1971). Le 23 avril 1971, une nouvelle fois, un enfant a brûlé vif dans une de ces baraques. Devant une telle situation, toutes les formes d’aides apportées aux immigrés, dans la mesure où elles ne privilégient pas la revendication du logement, concourent à masquer l’étendue de ce problème et son importance primordiale. Les travailleurs étrangers, eux, ne s’y trompent pas. Entre la période où furent réalisés les enregistrements rassemblés dans ce livre et maintenant, la prise de conscience de leur exploitation s’est encore plus nettement affirmée. La reconnaissance de leur droit au logement ne doit désormais plus relever d’« actions généreuses » mais doit s’inscrire dans le cadre d’une nouvelle politique sociale du logement en France.
