Stop killing us! Representation of police violence in French suburban narratives

  • Horvath, C. (Speaker)
  • Paulo Tonani do Patrocinio (Organiser)

Activity: Public, Community and School Engagement › Public talk, lecture, debate, seminar, workshop

Description

This talk discusses a major cause of uprisings in French suburb, the “bavure policière”. This euphemistic term refers to the accidental death of young people of colour at the hands of the police, which happen on a regular basis since the 1970s and sparked three weeks of unrests in November 2005. The talk focuses on works by artists who have been at the forefront of denouncing this form of abuse of power in films and literature: Mathieu Kassowitz’s La Haine (1995), Ladj Ly’s Oscar nominated Les Misérables (2018), and novels by Rachid Santaki (Flic ou caillera, 2014), Insa Sané (daddy est mort, 2017), Kaoutar Harchi (Comme nous existons, 2021) and Diaty Diallo (Deux secondes d'air qui brûle, 2022).
Period1 Nov 2023
Held atFederal University of Rio de Janeiro-UFRJ, Brazil
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • police violence
  • banlieues
  • film
  • novels
  • riots
  • killing
  • racialised youths

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