| Authors |
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| Publication date |
2018
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| Host editors |
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K. Bystrom
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A. Harris
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A.J. Webber
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| Book title |
South and North
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| Book subtitle |
Contemporary Urban Orientations
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| ISBN |
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| ISBN (electronic) |
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| Series |
Literary cultures of the global south
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| Chapter |
10
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| Pages (from-to) |
181-197
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| Number of pages |
17
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| Publisher |
London: Routledge
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
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| Abstract |
In the film Intouchables (Nakache/Toledano, 2011), a stereotypical banlieue youth of African origin encounters a paralyzed white aristocrat who lives in wealthy neighbourhood in Paris. I read the comedy that ensues as a theatre of complicated comparisons between various forms of disenabling and re-enabling mapping strategies. At the intersection between social class, racialization, cultural capital and physical disability, a map of Paris emerges that rethinks and critiques the notion of access and borders between and within cities, the North and the South.
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| Document type |
Chapter
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351047043-10
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