Native to the Republic : : Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille since 1945 / / Minayo Nasiali.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Nasiali, Minayo,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Miller Center of Public Affairs Books
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 10 halftones

In Native to the Republic, Minayo Nasiali traces the process through which expectations about living standards and decent housing came to be understood as social rights in late twentieth-century France. These ideas evolved through everyday negotiations between ordinary people, municipal authorities, central state bureaucrats, elected officials, and social scientists in postwar Marseille. Nasiali shows how these local-level interactions fundamentally informed evolving ideas about French citizenship and the built environment, namely that the institutionalization of social citizenship also created new spaces for exclusion. Although everyone deserved social rights, some were supposedly more deserving than others.From the 1940s through the early 1990s, metropolitan discussions about the potential for town planning to transform everyday life were shaped by colonial and, later, postcolonial migration within the changing empire. As a port and the historical gateway to and from the colonies, Marseille’s interrelated projects to develop welfare institutions and manage urban space make it a particularly significant site for exploring this uneven process. Neighborhood debates about the meaning and goals of modernization contributed to normative understandings about which residents deserved access to expanding social rights. Nasiali argues that assumptions about racial, social, and spatial differences profoundly structured a differential system of housing in postwar France. Native to the Republic highlights the value of new approaches to studying empire, membership in the nation, and the welfare state by showing how social citizenship was not simply constituted within "imagined communities" but also through practices involving the contestation of spaces and the enjoyment of rights.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Note on Terms -- Introduction -- Part I. Modernizing The Imperial City -- 1. “We Have the Right to a Home!” -- 2. “We Have the Right to Comfort!” -- 3. Ordering the Disorderly Slum -- Part II. The Welfare City in Decline ? -- 4. Managing the Quality and Quantity of the Population -- 5. Neighborhoods in Crisis -- 6. Banlieue Youth and the Body Politic -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index