The banlieue and the postcolonial displacement of the European project. The peripheries as vector for analyzing the biopower of the EU project and as matrix of figures for post-national citizenship
Introduction: Francesco Salvini
The Europe of peripheries constitutes an authentic optic chiasm in contemporary political discourse, when not a black hole into which whole emancipatory traditions have fallen. The very fact of the colonial dimension in the segmentation of the European metropoli, more than half a century after the processes of decolonization, constitutes an aporia for “national” politics, both left and right.