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Silence, Rebellion, and Acting-Out of a Silenced Past: Understanding the French Riots From a Postcolonial and Transcultural Perspective

Context and Objectives: According to a sociological study, the adolescents involved in the “suburban riots” of November 2005 were French nationals with a foreign background, including 55% of North African descent. Numerous attempts to interpret the “riots” have been made, but none of them has discus...

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Autores principales: Mansouri, Malika, Feldman, Marion, Lachal, Jonathan, Dozio, Elisabetta, El Husseini, Mayssa’, Moro, Marie Rose
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6951409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31956314
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00909
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author Mansouri, Malika
Feldman, Marion
Lachal, Jonathan
Dozio, Elisabetta
El Husseini, Mayssa’
Moro, Marie Rose
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Feldman, Marion
Lachal, Jonathan
Dozio, Elisabetta
El Husseini, Mayssa’
Moro, Marie Rose
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description Context and Objectives: According to a sociological study, the adolescents involved in the “suburban riots” of November 2005 were French nationals with a foreign background, including 55% of North African descent. Numerous attempts to interpret the “riots” have been made, but none of them has discussed the impact of the “silenced” colonial history on their filiation. For this reason, the present research set out to overcome this shortfall. Methods: Using a complementarist, transcultural, qualitative research methodology, 15 interviews with French adolescents of Algerian descent were analysed. Results, Analysis and Discussion: The analysis of these interviews highlighted the impact of the past violence in France’s colonial history on family dynamics and intergenerational relationships, which seemed to play a crucial role in the unconscious component of transmission within these families. This discovery led us to a new understanding of the 2005 revolt, envisaging it as a symptom of a disorder situated on several levels: on the level of subjectivity, of trans-generational relationships, and also on the level of social cohesion within French society. The interviews showed how the young interviewees related their current anger to French colonial and post-colonial history. Conclusions: These observations led to a new understanding of the “riots” as a form of acting-out of anger linked to contemporary and past experiences of domination and exclusion.
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spelling pubmed-69514092020-01-17 Silence, Rebellion, and Acting-Out of a Silenced Past: Understanding the French Riots From a Postcolonial and Transcultural Perspective Mansouri, Malika Feldman, Marion Lachal, Jonathan Dozio, Elisabetta El Husseini, Mayssa’ Moro, Marie Rose Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Context and Objectives: According to a sociological study, the adolescents involved in the “suburban riots” of November 2005 were French nationals with a foreign background, including 55% of North African descent. Numerous attempts to interpret the “riots” have been made, but none of them has discussed the impact of the “silenced” colonial history on their filiation. For this reason, the present research set out to overcome this shortfall. Methods: Using a complementarist, transcultural, qualitative research methodology, 15 interviews with French adolescents of Algerian descent were analysed. Results, Analysis and Discussion: The analysis of these interviews highlighted the impact of the past violence in France’s colonial history on family dynamics and intergenerational relationships, which seemed to play a crucial role in the unconscious component of transmission within these families. This discovery led us to a new understanding of the 2005 revolt, envisaging it as a symptom of a disorder situated on several levels: on the level of subjectivity, of trans-generational relationships, and also on the level of social cohesion within French society. The interviews showed how the young interviewees related their current anger to French colonial and post-colonial history. Conclusions: These observations led to a new understanding of the “riots” as a form of acting-out of anger linked to contemporary and past experiences of domination and exclusion. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6951409/ /pubmed/31956314 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00909 Text en Copyright © 2019 Mansouri, Feldman, Lachal, Dozio, El Husseini and Moro http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Mansouri, Malika
Feldman, Marion
Lachal, Jonathan
Dozio, Elisabetta
El Husseini, Mayssa’
Moro, Marie Rose
Silence, Rebellion, and Acting-Out of a Silenced Past: Understanding the French Riots From a Postcolonial and Transcultural Perspective
title Silence, Rebellion, and Acting-Out of a Silenced Past: Understanding the French Riots From a Postcolonial and Transcultural Perspective
title_full Silence, Rebellion, and Acting-Out of a Silenced Past: Understanding the French Riots From a Postcolonial and Transcultural Perspective
title_fullStr Silence, Rebellion, and Acting-Out of a Silenced Past: Understanding the French Riots From a Postcolonial and Transcultural Perspective
title_full_unstemmed Silence, Rebellion, and Acting-Out of a Silenced Past: Understanding the French Riots From a Postcolonial and Transcultural Perspective
title_short Silence, Rebellion, and Acting-Out of a Silenced Past: Understanding the French Riots From a Postcolonial and Transcultural Perspective
title_sort silence, rebellion, and acting-out of a silenced past: understanding the french riots from a postcolonial and transcultural perspective
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6951409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31956314
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00909
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