In February 2021 I attended a conversation between Felwine Sarr, a musician, economist and scholar, and Thierry Grillet. The talk was hosted by Columbia Global Centers Paris. Some of Grillet’s questions included: “Where are the places of healing? Where do we digest colonial histories?” These questions, in some sense rhetorical, ask us where—they ask us… Continue reading The Space Between
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Points of Entry, Points of Exit
In the summer of 2020, The Funambulist Podcast recorded a series on France’s “quartiers populaires.” These episodes were often recorded in the neighborhoods being discussed, where the host, Léopold Lambert, interviewed current and former residents. Les Potagers, a housing project in Nanterre, is the subject of two such episodes. Built in the early 60’s, Les… Continue reading Points of Entry, Points of Exit
