Governing the Northern Territories. Capitalism, race and poverty

How can we think about the transformations of (post-)industrial territories? Based on a cross-section of social science research carried out in Northern France, this book proposes a localized approach to social change. It sheds light on economic reconversions - industrial, real estate and environmental - the (re)production of racial boundaries - in labor management, access to housing and cross-border mobility - and the government of poverty - from the (de)cohabitation trajectories of working-class youth, to the supervision of drug use and the experimentation of a minimum income on a communal scale. Here we meet the elected representatives, technicians, bosses, activists and residents who support, undergo or oppose the restructuring of capitalist and post-colonial societies, very often driven in the name of an endless transition, whether "tertiary", "social" or "environmental".