Contr’actions

Abstract

This research involved a step-by-step exploration of the political significance of disruptive interventions instigated by urban youth of migrant descent in two major Western European cities. In the previous chapter I focused on a possibly shared unruly politics in which young urban troublemakers are recognized as political agents by representatives of accepted, civil participation. If the counternarratives of urban youth about injustices are taken serious for their own truth value, various actors could join forces to change existing political structures that uphold mechanisms of exclusion. In these final reflections I will return to the relation between politics and the political, which I introduced in Chapter 1, and which structured the theoretical argumentation of this book.