AS a team

 

WE EXAMINE three territories

EU as a supra-national site and actor, which also enables the connection between different EU cities through its supra-national governmental bodies,

BRUSSELS where the Plan Canal was implemented in specific neighborhoods,

MARSEILLE where policies on urban renovation and securitisation intersect.

WE USE

qualitative and interdisciplinary methods involving archiving, mapping, and artistic creation. We aim at engaging with various actors such as policymakers, practitioners, civil society, and residents.

This research project seeks to examine how the current ‘war on terror’ and the policies of deradicalization impact and actively reconfigure institutional discourses and practices on urban insecurity, and whether and how they fundamentally reshape notions of belonging and the experience of in/security among the residents of these neighborhoods.

Deradicalizing the City is financed by KU Leuven and the FWO.

  • EU

    EU as a supra-national site and actor, which also enables the connection between different EU cities through its supra-national governmental bodies.

  • Brussels

    Brussels capital, a region, and 19 communes. Focus on the relationship to the EU as well as the implementation of the policies regionally and locally in the Canal zone.

  • Marseille

    Second largest municipality of France, but also an ‘outsider’ to France. Strong social discourse on gentrification, large multicultural composition.