Dépossessions spatiales et négociations des mères au sein d’une cité marseillaise : pour une approche spatiale des rapports intersectionnels de pouvoir
This article analyses how mothers in a cité of Marseilles negotiate the daily conflict between the police and the drug trade that penetrates their living spaces. Based on ethnographic work combining interviews, observations, focus groups, and a reflexive and analytical use of drawings, I show that t...
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Genre, Sexualité et Société
2024-11-01
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| Series: | Genre, Sexualité et Société |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/gss/8970 |
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| Summary: | This article analyses how mothers in a cité of Marseilles negotiate the daily conflict between the police and the drug trade that penetrates their living spaces. Based on ethnographic work combining interviews, observations, focus groups, and a reflexive and analytical use of drawings, I show that these mothers suffer a spatial dispossession that manifests itself in tense atmospheres, physical repressions and instrumentalizations. These mothers rely on local respectability, which is both a resource and a norm, to deploy spatial tactics of distancing, surveillance, and intervention. Through three figures – the veiled woman, the good mother and the Marseilles loudmouth – I illustrate the interweaving of ways of negotiating space and defining oneself morally in relation to a plurality of gazes. The article thus demonstrates the value of an intersectional approach to space, in order to grasp the simultaneous privileges and vulnerabilities that play out in different situations. |
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| ISSN: | 2104-3736 |