Identities, Migrations and Territories in Contemporary France

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Using Benedict Anderson's imagined communities concept, this class aims at questioning the new identity politics in France since the end of the "Trente Glorieuses". This class will be structured around two concepts, or "spaces of meaning", which are the Quartiers populaires (banlieues, or suburbs) and the Territoires (peri-urban areas), which embody France's new social, political, economic and cultural fault lines.