Precarious Tactics of Habitability in the French Banlieue
Isabelle McNeill
Drawing on the ideas of Michel De Certeau, Isabelle McNeill discusses filmmaking practices in the banlieue as part of a wider struggle for habitability.
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Home: An Impossible Pursuit?
Anna Viola Sborgi
Anna Viola Sborgi's introduction to the second round explores intersectionality and social mobility as it relates to home.
Constructing Precarity: Media and Social Housing in the French Banlieue
Isabelle McNeill
Can cinema generate alternative visions of precarious life in the banlieue? Isabelle McNeill investigates scenes of domestic interiors that challenge the dominant media imagery of French social housing and its high rise architecture.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Mara Ferreri’s The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism and Ella Harris’s Rebranding Precarity
Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris
Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris discuss their books The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London and Rebranding Precarity: Pop-Up Culture as the Seductive New Normal.
The Origins of Slums, Capitalism and the Shortcomings of Cinema
Igor Krstić
How have slums been represented onscreen? In the first installment of a three-part series, Igor Krstić considers the history of the cinematic representation of slums and examines the capacity of visual media to portray the complex relationships between capitalism and urban development.