Author Biography

Mark Ingram is Professor of French Transnational Studies at Goucher College. His publications include Rites of the Republic: Citizens' Theatre and the Politics of Culture in Southern France (University of Toronto Press, 2011), and other works that have appeared in edited volumes, such as Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s): Trans-Mediterranean Francosphères (Liverpool University Press, 2021), and in journals such as City and Society and French Politics, Culture, & Society.

Table of Contents

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Marseille Mosaic
Mark Ingram and Kathryn KleppingerPart I: The Presence of the Past in Contemporary MarseilleChapter 1. Epidemics, Disinformation, and Financial Meltdown: Lessons from the Great Plague of Marseille of 1720
Junko Takeda.Chapter 2. Belle Époque Marseille in the 21st Century: Jean Contrucci's Les nouveaux mystères de Marseille series
Kathryn KleppingerChapter 3. Clientelism, Discrimination, and Adaptation in Marseille's Housing System (1960-1980)
Ed NaylorPart II: Scenes of Marseille Myth-Making Chapter 4. Marseille's Algerian Side in Visual Arts: A Cultural-Historical Approach
Anissa Bouayed, translated by Annie Jamison Chapter 5. Contentious Cosmopolitanism: Transnational Circulations in the Life Trajectories of Reggae/Ragga Artists in Marseille
Jean-Christophe Sevin, translated by Annie JamisonChapter 6. The Pitfalls of "Marseillology" and How to Avoid Them
Nicolas Maisetti and Cesare Mattina, translated by Willemina Don Part III: Visibility and Invisibility in Marseille's Social FabricChapter 7. Muslims in Marseille's Public Space: Belated Recognition, Ambivalent Visibility
Vincent Geisser, translated by Willemina DonChapter 8. True Grit: Representing the Quartiers Nord of Marseille in Karim Dridi's Films
Chong J. BretillonChapter 9. Political and Civic Engagements of Women from Postcolonial Immigrant Backgrounds in Marseille
Marie Berroir, translated by Annie JamisonPart IV: Current Interventions in Urban Space Chapter 10. Justification of Renewal as a Long and Winding Road: Discrediting the City to Better Transform It
Marie Beschon, translated by Hilary S. HandinChapter 11. Marseille as Privatopia: The Collapsing City, the Gated City
Élisabeth Dorier, translated by Hilary S. HandinChapter 12. "Publicizing" Urban Space: The Outreach Work of Marseillais Theatres Hors les Murs
Rebecca Free and Mark IngramChapter 13. La Friche la Belle de Mai: Future Third-Place Arts District of Marseille?
Fabrice Lextrait, translated by Helen FishmanPart V: AfterwordsChapter 14. Marseille, From the Global to the Provincial
Michel Peraldi, translated by Willemina DonChapter 15. The Forty-Ninth Wilaya: The Marseille Mosaic and Algerian Accents
Todd Shepard

Review

"This volume offers an interdisciplinary range of original, complementary and innovative contributions which grasp the complexities of Marseille – in terms of urban geography, culture and politics in particular – in a very complete, efficient and accessible way." • Etienne Achille, Villanova University

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"This volume offers an interdisciplinary range of original, complementary and innovative contributions which grasp the complexities of Marseille - in terms of urban geography, culture and politics in particular - in a very complete, efficient and accessible way." * Etienne Achille, Villanova University

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