The
New Urban Frontier. Gentrification and the revanchist city
Londres,
Routledge, 1996.
NEIL
SMITH (1954-2012)
La Cité Revancharde
Peu
connu du grand public français, le géographe « radical »
anglais Neil Smith, élève de David Harvey, a légué à la
postérité nombre d’ouvrages majeurs concernant la gentrification,
dont notamment The
New Urban Frontier. Gentrification and the revanchist city. Aucun n’a
été à ce jour traduit en français. Ce brillant essai est
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Extraits choisis :
Revanche
in French means revenge, and the
revanchists comprised a political movement that formed in France in
the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Angered by the
increased liberalism of the Second Republic, the ignominious defeat
to Bismarck, and the last straw—the Paris Commune (1870–1871), in
which the Paris working class vanquished the defeated government of
Napoleon III and held the city for months—the revanchists organized
a movement of revenge and reaction against both the working class and
the discredited royalty. Organized around Paul Déroulède and the
Ligue des Patriotes, this movement was as militarist as it was
nationalist, but also made a wide appeal to “traditional values.”
“The True France, for Déroulède—the France of good honest men
who believed in simple virtues of honor, family, the army, and the
[new Third] Republic …would surely win out” (Rutkoff 1981). It
was a right-wing movement built on populist nationalism and devoted
to a vengeful and reactionary retaking of the country.
