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Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Marseille Mosaic
Mark Ingram and Kathryn Kleppinger

Part I: The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Marseille

Chapter 1. Epidemics, Disinformation, and Financial Meltdown: Lessons from the Great Plague of Marseille of 1720
Junko Takeda.

Chapter 2. Belle Époque Marseille in the 21st Century: Jean Contrucci’s Les nouveaux mystères de Marseille series
Kathryn Kleppinger

Chapter 3. Clientelism, Discrimination, and Adaptation in Marseille’s Housing System (1960-1980)
Ed Naylor

Part II: Scenes of Marseille Myth-Making 

Chapter 4. Marseille’s Algerian Side in Visual Arts: A Cultural-Historical Approach
Anissa Bouayed, translated by Annie Jamison

Chapter 5. Contentious Cosmopolitanism: Transnational Circulations in the Life Trajectories of Reggae/Ragga Artists in Marseille
Jean-Christophe Sevin, translated by Annie Jamison

Chapter 6. The Pitfalls of “Marseillology” and How to Avoid Them
Nicolas Maisetti and Cesare Mattina, translated by Willemina Don

Part III: Visibility and Invisibility in Marseille’s Social Fabric

Chapter 7. Muslims in Marseille’s Public Space: Belated Recognition, Ambivalent Visibility
Vincent Geisser, translated by Willemina Don

Chapter 8. True Grit: Representing the Quartiers Nord of Marseille in Karim Dridi’s Films
Chong J. Bretillon

Chapter 9. Political and Civic Engagements of Women from Postcolonial Immigrant Backgrounds in Marseille
Marie Berroir, translated by Annie Jamison

Part IV: Current Interventions in Urban Space

Chapter 10. Justification of Renewal as a Long and Winding Road: Discrediting the City to Better Transform It
Marie Beschon, translated by Hilary S. Handin

Chapter 11. Marseille as Privatopia: The Collapsing City, the Gated City
Élisabeth Dorier, translated by Hilary S. Handin

Chapter 12. “Publicizing” Urban Space: The Outreach Work of Marseillais Theatres Hors les Murs
Rebecca Free and Mark Ingram

Chapter 13. La Friche la Belle de Mai: Future Third-Place Arts District of Marseille?
Fabrice Lextrait, translated by Helen Fishman

Part V: Afterwords

Chapter 14. Marseille, From the Global to the Provincial
Michel Peraldi, translated by Willemina Don

Chapter 15. The Forty-Ninth Wilaya: The Marseille Mosaic and Algerian Accents
Todd Shepard

The Marseille Mosaic

A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures

Edited by Mark Ingram and Kathryn Kleppinger

351 pages, 58 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-820-1 Hb Published (January 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80073-821-8 eBook