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Neocolonial Urbanism? La Rénovation Urbaine in Paris

This paper analyses the programme of redeveloping housing estates in France overseen by the Agence Nationale de la Rénovation Urbaine (ANRU). Under this programme social housing reconstruction is undertaken in a nationally coordinated fashion in order to "valorize", "secure" and socially "mix" estates. The paper highlights the political and neo"colonial aspects of this programme and the wider state spatial strategies it is part of. Redevelopment projects not only further gentrifying land"rent valorization, state rescaling and territorially stigmatizing symbolic violence; they also reorganize territorial relations of domination in multiple, also racialized, neo"colonial and partly hegemonic ways. In a longer view, they respond to the "urban revolution" of 1968 (Garnier) and to the "anti"colonial revolution" of independence and anti"racist movements (Khiari). The paper builds on a framework that articulates marxist (Lefebvrean) and anti"colonial (Fanonian) lineages while drawing on research on the neo"colonial aspects of the French state.

» Author: Stefan Kipfer

» Source: Wiley

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