The association between rioting, civil dissent and protest on the one hand, and intersectional and gender politics on the other, is something which has been noted in the literature (White, 2007). ... Likewise in Ferguson, the fatal shooting of African American Michael Brown by a white police officer on the 9th of August last year was seen as a catalyst for the events which followed. ... The geography of intersectional politics is something which has been foregrounded in the literature (White, 2007), and it has been evidenced in both these cases, as well as in the problem of the 'banlieu...

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