Quartiers populaires : 40 ans de déni ?

“Sociologists, geographers, historians and anthropologists have been warning for nearly half a century about the way in which “”working-class neighborhoods”” are represented in the media and the imagination, their realities instrumentalized by the political world or the avenues proposed by public authorities insufficient.
For The Conversation, four of these academics look back in detail at the way French society and its political representatives have positioned themselves in relation to what have come to be known as “”banlieues””, “”cités”” or “”quartiers populaires””, terms designating the large housing estates that sprang up on the bangs of France’s post-war metropolises. Their reflections cover the media treatment of these places and their inhabitants, their politicization and the tensions that run through them.”