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Urban Poverty, Discrimination, and Fragmented Landscapes: Recasting ‘Le Grand Paris’ Urban Renewal Proposal for Territorial Integration

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  • Edad Mercier

    (Department of World History, St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. John’s University New York, United States)

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This paper is a qualitative urban ethnographic study of Black and Arab youth, and the effects of poverty in Seine-Saint-Denis and the 18éme arrondissement. The work concerns individual and group attitudes on ‘affinity,’ ‘placemaking,’ and ‘discrimination’ vis-à -vis the 2007 ‘Le Grand Paris’ urban renewal proposal. The youth included in the study are members of two community-based organizations—Association Le Club Barbés in the 18éme, and Association Youth in Movement (Jeunesse en Mouvement-JEM) in Seine-Saint-Denis. Through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), direct participant observation, go-along, semi-structured, open-ended, and face-to-face interviews between 2013 and 2014, I collected 15 participant interviews and 7 expert interviews. I identified four identity-forming narratives from my participant interviews: (1) placemaking through affinity bonds; (2) schools as boundary making; (3) navigating violence between worlds; and (4) self-esteem through leadership. These narratives strongly suggest that youth participation in civic associations is correlated with a greater level of individual and group efficacy

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  • Edad Mercier, 2020. "Urban Poverty, Discrimination, and Fragmented Landscapes: Recasting ‘Le Grand Paris’ Urban Renewal Proposal for Territorial Integration," Annals of Social Sciences & Management studies, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 6(1), pages 17-27, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:oajasm:v:6:y:2020:i:1:p:17-27
    DOI: 10.19080/ASM.2020.06.555678
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    juniper publishers; social sciences journals; social anthropology; social policy; journal of social science; social and political science journals; journal of social science; open access; juniper publishers reivew;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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