The Marseille Mosaic

Mark Ingram is Professor of French Transnational Studies at Goucher College. His publications include Rites of the Republic: Citizens' Theatre and the Politics of Culture in Southern France (University of Toronto Press, 2011), and other works that have appeared in edited volumes, such as Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s): Trans-Mediterranean Francosphères (Liverpool University Press, 2021), and in journals such as City and Society and French Politics, Culture, & Society.

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Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Marseille Mosaic

Mark Ingram and Kathryn Kleppinger



Part I: The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Marseille



Chapter 1. Epidemics, Disinformation, and Financial Meltdown: Lessons from the Great Plague of Marseille of 1720

Junko Takeda.



Chapter 2. Belle Époque Marseille in the 21st Century: Jean Contrucci’s Les nouveaux mystères de Marseille series

Kathryn Kleppinger



Chapter 3. Clientelism, Discrimination, and Adaptation in Marseille’s Housing System (1960-1980)

Ed Naylor



Part II: Scenes of Marseille Myth-Making 



Chapter 4. Marseille’s Algerian Side in Visual Arts: A Cultural-Historical Approach

Anissa Bouayed, translated by Annie Jamison



Chapter 5. Contentious Cosmopolitanism: Transnational Circulations in the Life Trajectories of Reggae/Ragga Artists in Marseille

Jean-Christophe Sevin, translated by Annie Jamison



Chapter 6. The Pitfalls of “Marseillology” and How to Avoid Them

Nicolas Maisetti and Cesare Mattina, translated by Willemina Don



Part III: Visibility and Invisibility in Marseille’s Social Fabric



Chapter 7. Muslims in Marseille’s Public Space: Belated Recognition, Ambivalent Visibility

Vincent Geisser, translated by Willemina Don



Chapter 8. True Grit: Representing the Quartiers Nord of Marseille in Karim Dridi’s Films

Chong J. Bretillon



Chapter 9. Political and Civic Engagements of Women from Postcolonial Immigrant Backgrounds in Marseille

Marie Berroir, translated by Annie Jamison



Part IV: Current Interventions in Urban Space



Chapter 10. Justification of Renewal as a Long and Winding Road: Discrediting the City to Better Transform It

Marie Beschon, translated by Hilary S. Handin



Chapter 11. Marseille as Privatopia: The Collapsing City, the Gated City

Élisabeth Dorier, translated by Hilary S. Handin



Chapter 12. “Publicizing” Urban Space: The Outreach Work of Marseillais Theatres Hors les Murs

Rebecca Free and Mark Ingram



Chapter 13. La Friche la Belle de Mai: Future Third-Place Arts District of Marseille?

Fabrice Lextrait, translated by Helen Fishman



Part V: Afterwords



Chapter 14. Marseille, From the Global to the Provincial

Michel Peraldi, translated by Willemina Don



Chapter 15. The Forty-Ninth Wilaya: The Marseille Mosaic and Algerian Accents

Todd Shepard