Mis à pied…Ethnographie du rapport à l’automobile, à l’espace et au déplacement chez les jeunes habitants d’une cité périphérique déshéritée d’une petite ville du nord de la France au milieu des années 90

In the peripheral, underprivileged and deurbanized cities of Northern France, having access to a motorcar (belonging to the father or, more likely, shared by the whole family) is seen as the surest way of distancing oneself from the ghetto and to escape its inevitable and ever-present stigma. The ghetto-dweller is first and foremost someone who travels on foot and exhausts himself in wasting time that has lost all value. And he is also someone who, in the course of his pedestrian displacements, will come up against a multitude of obstacles that will unceasingly remind him of his status of urban outcast.