...du ‘problème des quartiers sensibles,’” online at http://www.lmsi.org. of the riots died. In discussions with my students, they said they were frustrated by the so-called “sociological” explanations they heard in...

...collected in our book, Institutions et emploi (Economica, 1999), where the empirical illustrations concern the female labor market., have shown that the labor demand problem is much more severe than...

...“street culture”). In fact all the movements pushing for islamization present Islam as an alternative to the failure of the second generation Muslims; they differ in either promoting a model...

...not thinking of a growing economy but rather of how best to divide the labor market that would remain stagnant. Since new jobs would not be created, the challenge became...

...in 1984. One could argue that what we nowadays, rather euphemistically, call “sensitive neighborhoods” are actual heterotopias. Originally designed as quite autonomous neighborhoods, with shops, schools and other services, so...

...Hurricane Katrina in September 2005). The violence resulted in burnt cars, vandalized police stations, shopping malls, daycare centers, schools, and public sports facilities in the northern suburbs of Paris (district...

...windows of a shop and then rob it. There were also rising feelings of hatred among youth, as demonstrated by a movie from Kassowitz, “La haîne,” and a decline in...

...assimilation of Islam. Obviously institutional representation does not prevent social and cultural exclusion. It rather seems the opposite when state officials, in order to calm the local fever, call for...

...the space of a few decades the city has instead become the paradigmatic site of decline and crisis? In France throughout the 20th century, the concepts of city and modernity...