From: Paul Zarembka (zarembka@BUFFALO.EDU)
Date: Sun Nov 06 2005 - 10:53:02 EST
> Here's a short article on the riots in France: > <http://www.countdownnet.info/articoli/analisi/Europa/356.pdf> Antoine > Lerougetel, France: widening anti-police riots provoke government > crisis There are lot of news articles on France burning. > I think there are connections to be made: clearly the rioting can not > be understood simply as a reaction to the economic situation, including > the extraordinarily high rates of unemployment and poverty in North > African exile communities in France. Other issues also shape these > events, including racial discrimination in France, prejudice against > Moslems, police brutality, and the complicity of all of the major > political parties in allowing the above. > > What do you have to add? What's your specific connections to Derrida's theory? We all know about the situational issues you mention. Paul
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