Essays

• Participatory democracy in France: subsumed by local politics

  
  9 January 2013, by Rémi Lefebvre & translated by Oliver Waine
  In spite of the development of new forms of participatory democracy, turnout at local elections in France has never been lower. Far from rejuvenating “local democracy”, the experiences of 

• Settlement policy in Israel. Transforming Jerusalem’s contested metropolitan landscape

  
  12 September 2012, by Marco Allegra
  In Jerusalem, competition for land is central to the ongoing conflict. Marco Allegra shows how ideology can be less effective than planning policy in transforming a contested territory. Israel’s 

• Mapping votes and social inequalities: the case of Paris and its inner suburbs

  
  27 June 2012, by Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine
  Analysing local contexts can prove particularly enlightening when it comes to understanding electoral processes, whether in terms of party-political mobilisation or in terms of the choices voters 

• Explaining the periurban right-wing vote: “social frustrations” of low-income households or the reshaping of the working classes?

  
  13 June 2012, by Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine
  There is a growing interest in voting patterns in periurban areas, which tend to lean to the right or even far right. However, the interpretation of these patterns is often unsatisfactory: 

• Maps and opinion polls

  
  6 June 2012, by Joël Gombin & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine
  Presidential elections – a crucial moment in the democratic life of France – generate all sorts of analyses that seek to interpret and decipher voting behaviour. Joël Gombin and Rivière highlight 

• The media construction of the suburbs in France: looking back on the 2007 presidential campaign

  
  23 May 2012, by Jean Rivière & Sylvie Tissot & translated by Oliver Waine
  In the run-up to the recent French presidential elections, the question of la banlieue – the (generally poor) suburbs that ring every major city in France – barely warranted a mention. In 2007, 

• Quotas of foreigners in social housing: a legacy of the Algerian War? Les Canibouts, Nanterre (1959–1968)

  
  11 April 2012, by Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard & translated by Oliver Waine
  Was it better to concentrate or disperse Algerians during the Algerian War? In the course of the conflict, both strategies were defended in terms of police action and integration. For Algerians 

• “Cités de transit”: the urban treatment of poverty during decolonisation

  
  28 March 2012, by Muriel Cohen & Cédric David & translated by Oliver Waine
  At a time of profound housing crisis in the 1950s, cités de transit were adopted as a means of rehousing Algerian families from cleared bidonvilles. The background of this measure – at the 

• “Bidonvilles”: from colonial policy to the Algerian War

  
  21 March 2012, by Françoise de Barros & translated by Oliver Waine
  The term bidonville (literally a town built of oil drums) originated in North Africa in the 1930s and came into use in mainland France in the 1950s to designate neighbourhoods composed of 

• The police and the “Algerian medinas” in France. Argenteuil, 1957–1962

  
  7 March 2012, by Emmanuel Blanchard & translated by Oliver Waine
  Fifty years after the end of the Algerian War of Independence, it should not be forgotten that this conflict was also played out in mainland France. Here, Emmanuel Blanchard shows the extent to 

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