...population—institutional mediations that easily accommodate a global discourse on “general social causes.” We would have to do a more systematic analysis of the political use of the events-that-express-a-crisis terminology in...

...law and order policy, anti-Muslim feelings (a tear-gas grenade from the police was thrown by accident into the mosque of Clichy-sous-Bois), two-speed discourse from the Minister of Interior Nicolas Sarkozy...

...into the lower-middle and middle class. What, then, are they for the immigrant populations of sub-Saharan and North Africa? Even setting aside the obstacle of latent racism, the chances for...

...the West. They listen to hip-hop and rap, eat fast-food, hallal or not. They want to be part of the consumer society, even as predators. All that might sound familiar...

...intentioned, the measures taken by Social Affairs Minister Martine Aubry and Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement were half-hearted (Alec G. Hargreaves, “Half-Measures: Anti-Discrimination Policy in France”, in French Politics, Culture and...

...in France are public transportation). Every night, hundreds of cars have burned and serious face-to-face conflict has occurred between young people and the police, but also firemen. The situation became...

...working-class inhabitants are more and more the exception, is striking given that Notre-Dame is only about ten miles from the Clichy-sous-Bois ZUS. In the 19th century, the bourgeois used to...