@article{ref1,
title="Silence, rebellion, and acting-out of a silenced past: understanding the French riots from a postcolonial and transcultural perspective",
journal="Frontiers in psychiatry",
year="2019",
author="Mansouri, Malika and Feldman, Marion and Lachal, Jonathan and Dozio, Elisabetta and El Husseini, Mayssa' and Moro, Marie Rose",
volume="10",
number="",
pages="e909-e909",
abstract="<b>Context and Objectives:</b> According to a sociological study, the adolescents involved in the &quot;suburban riots&quot; of November 2005 were French nationals with a foreign background, including 55% of North African descent. Numerous attempts to interpret the &quot;riots&quot; have been made, but none of them has discussed the impact of the &quot;silenced&quot; colonial history on their filiation. For this reason, the present research set out to overcome this shortfall. <b>Methods:</b> Using a complementarist, transcultural, qualitative research methodology, 15 interviews with French adolescents of Algerian descent were analysed. <b>Results, Analysis and Discussion:</b> The analysis of these interviews highlighted the impact of the past violence in France's colonial history on family dynamics and intergenerational relationships, which seemed to play a crucial role in the unconscious component of transmission within these families. This discovery led us to a new understanding of the 2005 revolt, envisaging it as a symptom of a disorder situated on several levels: on the level of subjectivity, of trans-generational relationships, and also on the level of social cohesion within French society. The interviews showed how the young interviewees related their current anger to French colonial and post-colonial history. <b>Conclusions:</b> These observations led to a new understanding of the &quot;riots&quot; as a form of acting-out of anger linked to contemporary and past experiences of domination and exclusion.<br><br>Copyright © 2019 Mansouri, Feldman, Lachal, Dozio, El Husseini and Moro.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-0640",
doi="10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00909",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00909"
}