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Book Synopsis Formerly the gateway to the French empire, the city of Marseille exemplifies a postcolonial Europe reshaped by immigrants, refugees, and repatriates. The Marseille Mosaic addresses the city’s past and present, exploring the relationship between Marseille and the rest of France, Europe, and the Mediterranean. Proposing new models for the study of place by integrating approaches from the humanities and social sciences, this volume offers an idiosyncratic “mosaic,” which vividly details the challenges facing other French and European cities and the ways residents are developing alternative perspectives and charting new urban futures.
Trade Review “This volume offers an interdisciplinary range of original, complementary and innovative contributions which grasp the complexities of Marseille – in terms of urban geography, culture and politics in particular – in a very complete, efficient and accessible way.” • Etienne Achille, Villanova University
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Marseille Mosaic
Mark Ingram and Kathryn Kleppinger
Part I: The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Marseille
Chapter 1. Epidemics, Disinformation, and Financial Meltdown: Lessons from the Great Plague of Marseille of 1720
Junko Takeda.
Chapter 2. Belle Époque Marseille in the 21st Century: Jean Contrucci’s Les nouveaux mystères de Marseille series
Kathryn Kleppinger
Chapter 3. Clientelism, Discrimination, and Adaptation in Marseille’s Housing System (1960-1980)
Ed Naylor
Part II: Scenes of Marseille Myth-Making
Chapter 4. Marseille’s Algerian Side in Visual Arts: A Cultural-Historical Approach
Anissa Bouayed, translated by Annie Jamison
Chapter 5. Contentious Cosmopolitanism: Transnational Circulations in the Life Trajectories of Reggae/Ragga Artists in Marseille
Jean-Christophe Sevin, translated by Annie Jamison
Chapter 6. The Pitfalls of “Marseillology” and How to Avoid Them
Nicolas Maisetti and Cesare Mattina, translated by Willemina Don
Part III: Visibility and Invisibility in Marseille’s Social Fabric
Chapter 7. Muslims in Marseille’s Public Space: Belated Recognition, Ambivalent Visibility
Vincent Geisser, translated by Willemina Don
Chapter 8. True Grit: Representing the Quartiers Nord of Marseille in Karim Dridi’s Films
Chong J. Bretillon
Chapter 9. Political and Civic Engagements of Women from Postcolonial Immigrant Backgrounds in Marseille
Marie Berroir, translated by Annie Jamison
Part IV: Current Interventions in Urban Space
Chapter 10. Justification of Renewal as a Long and Winding Road: Discrediting the City to Better Transform It
Marie Beschon, translated by Hilary S. Handin
Chapter 11. Marseille as Privatopia: The Collapsing City, the Gated City
Élisabeth Dorier, translated by Hilary S. Handin
Chapter 12. “Publicizing” Urban Space: The Outreach Work of Marseillais Theatres Hors les Murs
Rebecca Free and Mark Ingram
Chapter 13. La Friche la Belle de Mai: Future Third-Place Arts District of Marseille?
Fabrice Lextrait, translated by Helen Fishman
Part V: Afterwords
Chapter 14. Marseille, From the Global to the Provincial
Michel Peraldi, translated by Willemina Don
Chapter 15. The Forty-Ninth Wilaya: The Marseille Mosaic and Algerian Accents
Todd Shepard
