'Banlieue' Network: Care for the Future of Segregated Urban Communities

Banlieue Network专注于当代法国被称为“banlieues”的贫困郊区。近年来，这个词已经成为大多数大城市边缘地区被排斥的代名词。郊区建于20世纪50年代和60年代，目的是解决住房短缺问题，但却面临着社会服务不足、失业率和犯罪率高企的问题。自20世纪80年代初以来，大巴黎地区的郊区一直是城市暴力的现场，但2005年，2007年和2010年发生的骚乱达到了前所未有的规模。在这些疫情爆发之后，媒体报道和社会评论员强调了法国隔离城市边缘居民与较富裕地区居民之间的社会鸿沟的程度。法国的案例对于探索空间、社区、身份和政治之间的复杂关系尤为重要。在英国或美国，社区一直是城市政策的主要对象，而法国的平权行动主要侧重于城市地区。自20世纪80年代初以来，国家干预自相矛盾地助长了与“郊区”相关的负面陈规陋习的巩固。当隔离社区对城市社会构成前所未有的挑战时，Banlieue Network采取了一种新颖的方法来解决这些问题。它将理论研究与实践相结合，通过面对法国“郊区”所代表的各种官方和替代话语，从以往城市政策的缺点中吸取教训，并提供对社会排斥和空间隔离机制的见解。虽然郊区网络的主要重点是法国的弱势社区，但我们希望该网络能够长期扩展，包括对其他欧洲城市隔离社区的比较研究。提出的创新方法将在未来应用于解决贫困地区在不同背景下面临的多方面挑战。Banlieue Network的主要目标是建立一个解决城市污名化问题的国际网络，利用跨学科和多用户的方法，将学者、政策制定者和用户社区聚集在一起。进一步的目标包括：1。邀请来自建筑、城市规划、社会学、城市地理学、文化研究、社会语言学、比较文学和电影研究等学科的学者参与跨学科的研究合作，解决隔离社区问题。2. 将国际学者与用户社区、利益相关者和决策者联系起来；创造辩论、知识转移和分享专业知识和最佳做法的机会；并提出一系列切实可行的解决方案，以提高未来战略规划的有效性。3. 3 .通过顾问委员会将艺术家和当地居民纳入网络及其创意活动。通过挑战与隔离社区相关的负面陈腐观念来促进社会公正。5. 通过进一步的资金申请、指导委员会的定期会议、宣传网络和招募新成员来确保可持续发展。banliue Network将通过创建活动和产出来探索这些目标，包括a.一个探索性研讨会，一个暑期学校，两次跨学科会议和指导委员会的定期会议b.在伦敦和大巴黎地区巡回展览，展示暑期学校期间产生的创造性作品的非学术出版物和同行评审的学术书籍c.一个网站，记录项目的进展。它将作为创意文本、照片、视频文件和播客的存档，供参与者和更广泛的受众之间交流。

Banlieue Network focuses on deprived suburbs in contemporary France known as 'banlieues'. In recent years, this term has become synonymous with pockets of exclusion on the peripheries of most major cities. Built in the 1950s and 1960s to address the housing shortage, banlieues suffer from insufficient social services and high unemployment and delinquency rates. Suburbs in the Greater Paris area have been the scene of urban violence since the early 1980s but the riots which occurred in 2005, 2007 and 2010, reached an unprecedented scale. In the wake of these outbreaks, media accounts and social commentators highlighted the extent of the social divide in France between residents of segregated urban peripheries and those of more affluent areas. The French case is particularly important for an exploration of the complex relationship between space, community, identity and politics. Unlike in Britain or the United States where communities have been the main objects of urban policies, affirmative action in France focuses mainly on urban areas. Since the early 1980s, state interventions have paradoxically contributed to the consolidation of negative clichés associated with 'banlieues'. At a time when segregated communities constitute an unprecedented challenge for urban societies, Banlieue Network takes a novel approach to these issues. It aligns theoretical research with practical, hands-on approaches in order to learn from the shortcomings of previous urban policies and provide insights into the mechanisms of social exclusion and spatial segregation, by confronting various types of official and alternative discourses in which French 'banlieues' are represented. Although the primary focus of Banlieue Network is on disadvantaged neighbourhoods in France, we expect the network to extend in the long term to include comparative studies of segregated communities in other European cities. The proposed innovative methods will be applied in future to address the multifaceted challenges faced by deprived areas in different contexts. Banlieue Network's key objective is to build towards an international network addressing urban stigmatisation that will bring together academics, policy makers and user communities, using cross-disciplinary and multi-user approach. Further objectives include: 1. Engage scholars drawn from disciplines including architecture, urban planning, sociology, urban geography, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, comparative literature, and film studies in a cross-disciplinary research collaboration addressing segregated communities. 2. Connect international scholars with user communities, stakeholders and policy makers; create opportunities for debate, knowledge transfer and sharing expertise and best practice; and produce a range of practical solutions to improve the effectiveness of strategic planning for the future. 3. Integrate artists and local residents into the network and its creative activities through an Advisory Board. 4. Promote social justice by challenging the negative clichés attached to segregated communities. 5. Ensure sustainability through further funding applications, regular meetings of the steering committee, publicising the network and recruiting new members. Banlieue Network will explore these objectives through the creation of events and outputs including a. an exploratory workshop, a summer school, two interdisciplinary conferences and regular meetings of the steering committee b. a touring exhibition displayed in London and the Greater Paris area, a non-academic publication showcasing creative work produced during the summer school and a peer-reviewed scholarly book c. A website charting the progress of the project, which will serve as an archive for the creative texts, photographs, video documents and podcasts which will endure communication between participants and wider audiences.