The Making of the Banlieue (eBook)

This book studies and disaggregates the 'crisis of the suburbs' in Paris through the stories of inhabitants in 4000sud: a French suburban neighborhood. These stories have become pressing in the aftermath of the recent wave of terrorist attacks in France. The French banlieues are some of the most prominent and infamous examples of urban neighborhoods affected by vandalism, rioting, criminality and chronic poverty. Based on extensive ethnographic research, the book explores the making of the French suburban crisis as constituted both externally (by state actors) and internally, by young people at the street corner. It reveals how the French state's understanding of banlieue violence, and subsequent policy measures, contribute to the creation and hardening of boundaries between 'us' and 'them'. 

Luuk Slooter is a postdoctoral Assistant Professor at the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenge at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. In December 2015 he completed his PhD at Utrecht University and l'?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Until 2017, he was Assistant Professor at the Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (Radboud University, Nijmegen), where he taught courses on terrorism, urban violence, and security policies.