Historique
Article de Périodique
Gangs, drug dealing, and criminal governance in Marseille, France (2025)
Auteur(s) :
JENSEN, S. ;
RODGERS, D.
Année
2025
Page(s) :
139-168
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites
Discipline :
MAR (Marchés / Markets)
Thésaurus géographique
FRANCE
Thésaurus mots-clés
ORGANISATION CRIMINELLE
;
MARCHE DE LA DROGUE
;
HISTOIRE
;
TRAFIC INTERNATIONAL
;
CRIMINALITE
;
VIOLENCE
;
HOMICIDE
;
QUARTIER
;
REVENDEUR
Autres mots-clés
Résumé :
Marseille is a city that has long been sensationalistically associated in the public imagination with crime and drug dealing. This article begins by tracing the history of drug dealing and gang violence in the city, from its 19th century origins to the rise of what has been called the "French Connection" in the 1960s and 1970s, when Marseille played a central role in the global heroin trade. The city's criminality subsequently became more local in scope in the 1980s and 1990s, and the second part of the article draws on recent research carried out in the Marseille cité of Félix-Pyat, a poor neighbourhood widely associated with gang violence and drug dealing, to explore the consequences of the changing nature of crime in the city for process of "criminal governance". When considered historically and in relation to our previous research on gangs in Nicaragua and South Africa, we suggest that it might be appropriate to talk about there being "varieties" of criminal governance that come together as "assemblages" than can be constituted in fundamentally different ways. [Author's abstract]
Affiliation :
Professor of Global Cultural Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark and Senior researcher, DIGNITY: Danish Institute against Torture, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Research Professor, Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Research Professor, Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland