As mentioned by Rob (below), France’s recent flare-ups are not new. Being stationed, for the time being, in Lyon offers me an interesting perspective into how France works, or doesn’t. Officially, France and the French don’t see colour or race — no census data on race or religion is taken. A friend of mine who’s […]
Multiculturalism is a matter of margins in France - and thus of suburbs when it comes to Paris.
I remember postdoctoral fieldwork in ‘La Cité de Paradis’ an apartment complex in Fontenay-aux-Roses, a southern suburb of Paris. Despite considerable investment and pride in the French schooling system and a system of promotion by […]
Pruned: Cellular Infrastructure
“From one company: ‘The tremendous increase in demand for wireless towers has generated great opposition to the use of conventional, unconcealed structures. Both community and zoning requirements for high quality concealment are on the rise. Today, concealment issues may be the greatest obstacles to obtaining zoning approval. Preserved TreeScapes International’s botanically correct tree […]
A few years ago, a few people, who were at that time all at Nottingham Trent University, including myself, started ‘the virginity project’. Although the research subsequently shifted to issues around teenage sexuality, there always remained an urge to return to a more fundemental theoretical quest to get to grips with for this rather illusive […]
Walk/Shuffle by Emmet Connolly
“Walk/Shuffle investigates a method of reappropriating technology to realign the experience of the journey in an urban environment, and reinterpret the space occupied between cartesian points as a series of spatial events.
The urban traveler is too often concerned only with destination, treating the journey itself as secondary. I concentrate on the personal […]