Rage and Fire in the French Banlieues

Abstract

What has been enthusiastically heralded as the ‘urban age’ has turned out to be an era of ‘urban rage’ as well (Dikeç, forthcoming). Since at least the turn of the century, a wave of urban anger has taken a global dimension: From Cairo to Baltimore, London to Istanbul, one city after another experienced uprisings, leaving in their wake even more rage which seems unquenchable either by the extent of destruction or the severity of oppression. If this is what our urban futures hold for us, then I believe we need to take these incidents seriously, because their geographical expansion and increased intensity suggest a deepening of problems, perhaps most sharply manifest in cities where inequalities have been widening. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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