Space as a mode of political thinking

International audienceThis article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with colleagues. Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party websites are prohibited. In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: http://www.elsevier.com/copyright a b s t r a c t This article examines the relationship between space and politics though an exploration of the political theories of Arendt, Laclau, Mouffe and Rancière. It starts with an engagement with ideas about spatial metaphors and space, and argues that space may be considered as a mode of political thinking. It then provides an examination of the theories of these thinkers, paying close attention to the role space and spatiality plays in their conceptualisations of politics and the political. The article concludes with some observations on the relationship between space and politics

Beginners and equals: political subjectivity in Arendt and Rancière

International audienceThis article explores the idea of political subjectivity in Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière, both of whom I see as thinkers of ruptural and inaugurative politics with a particularly spatial conceptualisation of politics. I start by distinguishing between three strands of thinking about the nature of political subjectification, and I situate Arendt and Rancière's conceptualisations in relation to these. After an examination of their idea of political subjectivity, I offer an interpretation of the movement of sans papiers as it relates to political subjectification. This interpretation also brings out the similarities and differences between Arendt's and Rancière's understanding of politics

Bayram Aydındoğan'la meyhane sofralarında:Öyle tepe tepe servis yapılmazdı

Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 118-Çiçek Pasajıİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033

European Urban and Regional Studies Space, Governmentality, and the Geographies of French Urban Policy

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Voices into Noises: Ideological Determination of Unarticulated Justice Movements

International audienceThis paper looks at incidents of unrest in social housing neighbourhoods in the peripheral areas (banlieues) of French cities in the 1990s. It first focuses on the responses of the French state, and demonstrates how such areas have been constituted as 'menace' and such incidents as 'violence', through the state's discursive articulations. Then, by providing an account focused on the incidents themselves, it argues that these incidents are responses to various forms of injustice, from discrimination and police brutality to constantly increasing unemployment. They are, in other words, manifestations of contention, raising claims for justice, and not merely acts of violence. 'Justice Movements'? This paper is not about 'justice movements'—organised or in the making—as such. It is about the responses of the French state to incidents of social unrest in the banlieues (literally, suburbs) of large cities in France in the early 1990s. Such incidents are not covered in the literature on new social movements in France (see, for example, Waters, 1998; Appleton, 1999). They are not social movements in the more conventional sense either, if one follows Buechler's definition of social movements as " intentional, collective efforts to transform social order " (Buechler, 2000, p. 213). They are neither preconceived nor organised, and they are not articulated as collective efforts aimed at transforming the established order. However, they are not intrinsic acts of violence either. They all mobilise with a demand for justice and/or as reactions against perceived injustices. 'Let justice be done' or 'J'ai la haine', 1 as was heard—again—during the recent incidents in one of the banlieues of Strasbourg, following the 'accidental' killing of a person of immigrant origin by the police with a bullet in the head during a routine police road check (Libération, 22 March 2004)—a form of casualty not uncommon as the triggering incident of unrest in the banlieues (Rajsfus, 2002)

Pera Peras Poros Longings for Spaces of Hospitality

International audienceWelcoming the Stranger Though you have shelters and institutions, Precarious lodgings while the rent is paid, Subsiding basements where the rat breeds Or sanitary dwellings with numbered doors Or a house a little better than your neighbour's; When the Stranger says: 'What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?' What will you answer? 'We all dwell together To make money from each other?' Or 'This is a community'? And the Stranger will depart and return to the desert. O my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger, Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. (from T.S. Eliot's Choruses From 'The Rock') W ELL, PREPARING for the coming of the stranger should not be such a big hassle in the contemporary American city. With movement-sensitive lighting at the doorway and the 'armed response' sign in the garden, most families would feel themselves quite 'prepared' for the coming of the stranger. But is this a welcoming preparation? The 'stranger' has made it again – be it Plato's xenos, the daring Ruth, or Eliot's Stranger – the stranger, the concept of the stranger has always been the one arriving with questions, posing questions, making one pose questions and thus challenging the order. This time, however, it is not the stranger but strangers, without a single figure, who ask questions and cause us to question ourselves: the displaced people, refugees without citizenship, 'the most symptomatic group in contemporary politics', as Hannah Arendt

Police, politics, and the right to the city

International audienceSpace and spatiality have recently been at the core of debates concerning the political possibilities of the city. The arguments advanced in this paper might be seen as an attempt to contribute to these debates through a reflection on the spatiality of (in) justice, politics, and the right to the city. The case of French urban policy, with its focus on distressed urban areas, and the 'suburban problem' in France are used as examples to make arguments more concrete

Colonial Minds, Postcolonial Places

International audienceI have felt moved to write this piece for two reasons. First, the episode I will recount below resonates strongly with my experience and that of other non-European colleagues (those I have been discussing with, at least) regarding the politics of academic knowledge production in Western academic contexts. Second, it exemplifies what in my view is a rather problematic understanding of " Eurocentrism " and " theory " , reducing the former to an unproductive polemical register, and confusing the latter with a user's manual. The episode consists of me being called " Eurocentric " in an academic workshop, although this piece is in no way intended as a response to my accusers. Rather, it is written in the spirit of addressing the issues identified above, which I take to be of political, theoretical and pedagogic significance. What, then, was my sin to deserve this academic and political kiss of death? I was surprised—stunned even—especially because I had taken good care to start with a disclaimer that my paper was informed by the French context and inspired by a particular French thinker. Since the previous day of the workshop had seen numerous remarks of the type " Yes, but this doesn't work in Sri Lanka! " (there was a contingent of anthropologists and development geographers with ongoing research projects there), I was careful, running the risk of sounding defensive, to also emphasize that my paper offered one among many possible ways of thinking about the relationship between space and politics, one of the workshop themes. Alas, it didn't work in Sri Lanka! Although I tried to explain that my paper was neither inspired by nor responding to the situation in Sri Lanka, I, the only non-European present, ended up being the only Eurocentric of the whole workshop. The problem, according to my interlocutors, was that my alleged " model " (a term I had deliberately avoided) either " did not work in " or " did not apply to " Sri Lanka (Pakistan, if I remember correctly, was also mentioned). It is this kind of use of the term that I find unproductive and problematic. Based on a strictly geographical or even cartographica

Kırk yıldır baterisinin başından ayrılmayan Erol Pekcan:caz 60'lı yıllarda katledildi

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CD-ROM Nedir? Kütüphanecilik ve Bilgibilim Alanında Kullanımı

CD-ROMs (Compact Disk - Read Only Memory), vvhich have been fre* quently discussed in the literatüre, are introduced in this paper. Some articles and the demonstratlon diskette of the Library Coorporation that was sent to the Library of Bilkent University have been made use of. The advantages (the high storage capacity of CD-ROMs, the elimination expenses durüıg online searching sessions) and disadvantages (the lack of standardize* tion, the lack of the facility of vvritinğ on CD-ROMs) of CD-ROMs are discussed. Several examples of databases vvhich vvere produced on CD-ROM have been given.Bu yazıda son zamanlarda literatürde sıkça sözü edilen CD-ROMlar (Compact Disk - Read Only Memory), yani «Salt Okunur Bellekli Kompakt Disk» tanıtılmaktadır. Çalışma sırasında Library Coorporation tarafından Bilkent Üniversitesi Kütüphanesine gönderilen gösteri disketinden ve çeşitli makalelerden yararlanılmıştır. Kütüphane ve bilgibilim alanındaki uygulamaları giderek artan CD-ROM’lann avantaj (yüksek depolama kapasitesi, çevrimiçi taramalardaki iletişim giderlerini ortadan kaldırması) ve dezavantajlanna (standartlaşmanın tam gerçekleşmemiş olması, üzerine kayıt yapılamaması) değinilnüştir. Yazıda CD-ROM olarak üretilen çeşitli veri tabanlarına örnekler verilmektedir