...Balazs, Jean-Pierre Figuer and Pierre Rimbert, Compétition généralisée, “déclassement” et conversions politiques:les effets differentiels de la crise dans la sidérurgie et dans les hautes technologies, Research Report, Centre d’études de...

...the so-called “territoires perdus de la République” (the Republic’s lost territories) in which republican law had to be enforced again.[4. On this discourse, see Laurent Mucchielli, Violences et insécurité. Fantasmes...

...rather confined social and cultural categories in disadvantaged areas while reinforcing the negative image of these territories of identities. Thus states hold on to national “models” based on a rational...

...routine daily average day throughout the year. These ritualized attacks on automobiles, symbols of the social mobility denied to inhabitants of the banlieues, and on police forces seen as representatives...

...by cultural inequality. This cultural inequality translates to institutionalized discrimination in areas such as housing, employment, educational opportunities, and political representation. Of course, it is difficult to establish precise figures...

...sensibles. It is true that these issues have not given rise to anything that approximates the monumental literature on minorities in the US; but a lot of data exists, and...

...ago are the same today. There is a strong social component that includes various consequences of the economic changes that happened in the seventies: the end of classical fordist industries...

...the name of the estates: “Cité des 4000” at la Courneuve; “La Madeleine” at Evreux; “Val Fourré” at Mantes la Jolie; “Les Minguettes” at Vénissieux, near Lyon. Usually groups of...

...politics may be local, but all policies are certainly made by elites. If one analyses the bases of the republican model one sees that in the name of equality much...

...However, no public reaction has been offered in response to these questions. The municipal policies launched in 1990 drew on earlier experience with social development in suburban housing projects. They...