French Banlieues and Urban Guerrillas. By Yves Coleman
Mute recently published Italian sociologist Emilio Quadrelli’s long text on the 2005 riots in the French banlieues, ‘Grassroots Political Militants: Banlieusards and Politics’. Here, Parisian activist Yves Coleman responds to the claims and arguments made by Quadrelli and the militants whose testimonies appear in his text. Coleman argues that their vision of endo-colonial guerrilla warfare in the peripheries of French society is a dangerous piece of political myth making: while the left is indeed disengaged from the reality of life in the banlieues, so too, he argues, is Quadrelli. more... http://www.metamute.org/en/French-Banlieues-and-Urban-Guerrillas _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
