Joel White

Joel White is a freelance writer and student at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy and Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

Monuments to resistance

With the rise and repression of popular political protest on the streets of southern Europe, new monuments to resistance are emerging, memorialising novel moments of potential revolutionary history.

By Joel White

/ 16 Oct 2013

The return of the state to the Parisian banlieue

Eight years since the 2005 Parisian riots and French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announces a ‘return of the state’ to the banlieues. The recent resistance to this ‘return’ has marked an end to its short-lived political consensus and has forced a revaluation of what it truly means to be a citi

By Joel White

/ 19 Mar 2013