The Marseille Mosaic: A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures

Contents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgments\nNotes on Texts and Translations\nIntroduction. The Marseille Mosaic\nPart I. The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Marseille\nChapter 1. Epidemics, Disinformation, and Financial Meltdown: Lessons from the Great Plague of Marseille of 1720\nChapter 2. Belle Époque Marseille in the Twenty-First Century: Jean Contrucci’s Les nouveaux mystères de Marseille Series\nChapter 3. Clientelism, Discrimination, and Adaptation in Marseille’s Housing System (1960–80)\nPart II. Scenes of Marseille Myth-Making\nChapter 4. Marseille’s Algerian Side in Visual Arts: A Cultural–Historical Approach\nChapter 5. Contentious Cosmopolitanism: Transnational Circulations in the Life Trajectories of Reggae/Ragga Artists in Marseille\nChapter 6. The Pitfalls of “Marseillology” and How to Avoid Them\nPart III. Visibility and Invisibility in Marseille’s Social Fabric\nChapter 7. Muslims in Marseille’s Public Space: Belated Recognition, Ambivalent Visibility\nChapter 8. True Grit: Representing the Quartiers Nord of Marseille in Karim Dridi’s Films\nChapter 9. Political and Civic Engagements of Women from Postcolonial Immigrant Backgrounds in Marseille\nPart IV. Current Interventions in Urban Space\nChapter 10. Justification of Renewal as a Long and Winding Road: Discrediting the City to Better Transform It\nChapter 11. Marseille as Privatopia: The Collapsing City, the Gated City\nChapter 12. “Publicizing” Urban Space: The Outreach Work of Marseillais Theatres Horsles Murs\nChapter 13. La Friche la Belle de Mai: Future Third-Place Arts District of Marseille?\nPart V. Afterwords\nChapter 14. Marseille, from the Global to the Provincial\nChapter 15. The Forty-Ninth Wilaya: The Marseille Mosaic and Algerian Accents\nIndex