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Critical analysis of existing urban policy programmes and discourses in Paris, France. Includes overview of political systems and governance structures, key shifts in national discourses, and approaches to policy over migration, citizenship, and diversity.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Note on transcription of Arabic terms -- Avant-propos: A guide to reading Traces of Violence -- Preface: Blue flight terminal -- Counter-preface: Blues, flights, beginnings . . . -- 1 • Névralgique -- 2 • Graffs -- 3 • Operation vigilance -- 4 • Learning with the body -- 5 • Archive sorrow -- 6 • A trace is the mark of something not there -- 7 • "Where wounds are barely scarred over one is cut anew" -- 8 • The histories of these wounds -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index

Abstract
In this article I ask, at what level does the egalitarian life of the French Republic manifest itself? In what social spaces do people get to enjoy its slogan, Liberté, égalité, fraternité? I take these questions to be closely entangled with the concepts of public space and civil society, as well as that of the commons. How do Parisians use their urban commons? What kinds of restrictions and barriers exist to exclude people from this space? I describe the Bois de Boulogne public park in Paris and explore why this vast space of common enjoyment is subdivided to such a degree into zones of privilege and membership. I propose that the park exists as a miniature version, a heterotopia, of larger French society.

The Clinton administration's foreign policy toward Africa arouses strong reactions in France, most notably within the French policymaking establishment. This sentiment is directly linked to the end of the Cold War and the redistribution of power on the African continent. French policymakers commonly believe that the United States seeks to dominate the African continent. Such a representation could be seen as laughable through its excessive character. It is nonetheless maintained by a disparate group of facts and events that, when combined, lead French policymakers to overestimate U.S. impulses. In fact, U.S. African policies are not immune to the uncertainties and contradictions that pervade overall U.S. foreign policy. As insightfully noted by French Minister of Foreign Affairs Hubert Védrine, U.S. foreign policy toward Africa conveys the aspirations of a "hyper-power" that, although lacking a worthy international opponent truly capable of challenging its power, remains incapable of implementing a viable African strategy—in essence conjuring up the much-acclaimed image in Gulliver's Travels of the giant Gulliver finding himself hamstrung by hundreds of ropes tied by six-inch Lilliputians. An analysis of this policy also indirectly reveals the doubts inherent in France's own African policy due to the inability of its leaders to accept the constraints of a transformed international system.

Collection of personal narratives of women and men of the Francophone Caribbean diaspora living in Paris, to gain insight into the ways in which they understand and explain their experiences as new members of this global city. Their stories will shed light on how the postcolonial metropolis is increasingly becoming a gendered space of hybrid identity formation through the politics of inclusion and exclusion.1 The project foregrounds the intersection of gender ideologies 2 and practices – an all-too often overlooked terrain in work on postcolonial urban spaces – with other features of identity, including race and ethnicity. In so doing, the research seeks to document and explain everyday gendered immigrant realities and experiences, situating them within wider process of mass migration, thereby underscoring the applicability of narrative tools to social problems. 1 See "Disengaged Immigrant: Mapping the Francophone Caribbean Metropolis: By Dawn Fulton, In French Forum, Winter/Spring 2007, Vol. 32, Nos. 1-2, pp.245-262. 2 Gender ideologies refer to "patterns of ideas shaping beliefs, attitudes and values about appropriate identities and behaviors of men and women." Christine Barrow 1998. "Introduction." In Caribbean Portraits: Essays on Gender Ideology and Identity, ed. C. Barrow. Ian Randle Publishers and the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI Mona 1998.