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The article discusses the novel has first published in English and Spanish translations in 1944, subsequently appearing in the original German in 1948. Topics include the ship on escaped, as various accounts of the time are fond of highlighting, included among passengers Victor Serge; and characters desperately wait in and for foreign consulates to obtain the myriad visas.

This article traces the history of cosmopolitanism in Marseille as well some of the major aesthetic developments in its Vieux Port over the last century. I consider a series of moments from the Vichy government's destruction of the Vieux Port in an effort to stamp out resistance during WWII, to the transformation of La Criée aux Poissons from a fish market to a theater in the 1970s, to the recent pedestrianization of the shoreline and the construction of the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations. The Vieux Port's aesthetic transformations have reflected prevailing sentiments about the meaning of Marseille's past and its hope for the future. While the recent prevalence of cosmopolitanism in Marseille's year as European Capital of Culture and its urban revitalization efforts is striking, the concept has been used as a narrative for the city's revitalization since at least the 1970s. Whereas some have argued that the spaces of cosmopolitanism are hyper‐mobile, abstract non‐spaces, I argue that Marseille's cosmopolitanism is historical and linked as much to spaces of immobility as spaces of mobility. Far from distancing itself from history and tradition, Marseille has incorporated its ancient past into a cosmopolitan culture‐led urban renewal project. Ethnographically examining pedestrian traffic around the port reveals that the spaces where people come to rest are as essential as the spaces of constant movement and flow in charting cosmopolitanism in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We are currently experiencing one of the most disruptive pandemics in modern history. The outbreak of COVID‐19 that was first recorded in Wuhan, China and quickly spread across the globe has resulted in nearly 5 million confirmed cases to date and more than 300,000 deaths. Where we stand now, it is still uncertain how many it will infect or kill worldwide, how long it will continue, and when—if ever—life will return to normal. What we know for sure is that this is a pivotal moment and that we are experiencing a historic event that will transform our societies both profoundly and irreversibly. As we wade into this new age of pandemics, it is critical to rethink how we write the history of pandemics. With a conviction that the past helps us to understand the present and that the present should help us to rethink the past, I turn to the legacy of past plagues. In this essay, I take stock of the lasting legacies of past plagues because they continue to shape the way we think about new pandemics. In particular, I address persistent problems, such as European exceptionalism, triumphalism, and epidemiological Orientalism, that are not only ubiquitous in plague studies, but also staples of public opinion about pandemics, past and present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the issue of decolonizing heritage has emerged particularly strongly in cities that were historically at the heart of colonial entanglements. In Europe, sites associated with colonialism and slavery have become points of protest for a range of actors, including artists and the descendants of enslaved persons, and stemmed from British and French colonial histories. This article focuses on two cities, Bristol and Marseille, whose landscapes are imbued with residual traumatic memory, exploring how colonial/slave histories are rewritten in contemporary art practices as decolonial practices manifesting more inclusive commemorations of the past. The article analyzes how dynamic memorial activities in these cities entangle heritage and aesthetics with protest and draw attention to the capacity of artists to challenge existing civic narratives. It goes on to explore the methods used by artists – such as walking in the city, performance, and installation – to engage citizens located at the periphery in conversation and elicit their participation in the rewriting of civic histories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Not infrequently, art has accounted for natural disasters and human misfortunes. Plague is one of the most painful realities that men have always faced and is therefore one of the obligated themes of literature since ancient times. Among the French authors of the twentieth century is Marcel Pagnol's original chronicle on the bubonic plague of Marseille of 1720, presented with characteristics of legend, heroic deeds and humour: "Les pestiférés" (1977). It surprises by the wit that the story colours horror and disguises misfortune by making calamity an adventure full of acumen and fun. The intention of this article is to disseminate a little-known text of the French academic and highlight the peculiar approach with which he deals with adversity, recalling that through humour literature is able to mitigate the most heinous circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Novels by Maylis de Kerangal tend to depict specific microcosms. Two novels will retain our attention here: Corniche Kennedy and Birth of a Bridge. Corniche Kennedy immediately introduces the concepts of surveillance, cosmic speed, and planetary rotation before focusing more specifically on a group of teenagers who all converge, by various means of transport, toward Corniche Kennedy in Marseille. In Birth of a Bridge, Diderot's character sums up these same notions of cosmic speed and effervescence. Then the story turns to workers of various skills who also converge to the same place: here, that of a promising job site. Each of these two novels begins with a cosmic vision and then focuses on a specific environment capable of representing on a small scale the diversity and complexity of an entire society. More specifically, Corniche Kennedy denounces the political instrumentalization of antagonism toward Marseille's youth as well as the outdated traditional panopticon surveillance system. As for Birth of a Bridge, the story seems to celebrate, in a Bakhtinian fashion, the workers' high level of technicality while mocking the futility of the globalizing ambition that underlies the project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the Yugoslav consulate in Marseilles, the Serbian intelligence service informed King Aleksandar about the intentions of Croatian terrorists. When it was suggested to discontinue his visit to France, the King's only comment was: 'It is too late now, we have to follow the schedule.' It was exactly four o'clock in the afternoon of October 9, 1934, when King Aleksandar left the deck of the Yugoslav destroyer and continued his way by a motor boat to the Belgian quay. Then he went on by car along the main street of Marseille where a large number of citizens gathered to greet him. As soon as the car entered the Stock Exchange Square, the assassin Veličko Kerin, alias Peter Kelemen, as was written in his fake passport, ran out in front of the Stock Exchange building with a flower bouquet in which an automatic pistol was hidden. Crying 'Long Live the King!', he approached the car, shot and killed King Aleksandar, seriously wounded General Joseph Georges, one of the most capable French soldiers, and lightly wounded Minister Barthou, in his arm, who soon died of blood loss.

Privileged interface between empire and metropolis, from 1945 to 1954, the city of Marseille represents a remarkable observatory of analysis in the role played by the Algerians in the social struggles. Taking advantage of the Phocaean city political ecosystem, in theory propitious to the collective action, to what extent the Algerians manage to invest and appropriate the public space in order to use it at the service of their political, economic and social demands? Besides the resources traditionally used by the historian, the tools of geography are essential to analyse the forms and the explanations of fluctuating sociopolitical mobilizations across the territory of Marseille.

The Wicked City (director Peter Mak, 1992), House on the Waterfront (director Edmond T. Gréville, 1955), The French Connection (director William Friedkin, 1971), the obvious Borsalino (director Jacques Deray, 1970)… up to the recent Netflix series Marseille (creator Dan Franck, 2016–2018): when browsing the titles of the most important audiovisual representations of Marseille, one immediately notices how this city seems to (be made to) communicate a few recurrent topoi: the frontier city, site of mostly illegal activities and inhabited by a multi-ethnic (or rather stateless) community of gangsters, sailors, adventurers and prostitutes – ingredients often mixed with an abundant amount of charm and nostalgic fascination. Mostly informed by the theories and methodologies of film studies, musicology, creativity studies and communication studies, the present article aims to emphasize the consistence of significations conveyed by both visual and musical sources. As a case-study, the article shall focus on Borsalino, possibly – at the same time – the most famous film placed in Marseille and the most famous soundtrack (by jazz composer Claude Bolling) – both, it is argued, perfect syntheses of the above-mentioned topoi. Santrauka Marselis minimas filmuose Pavojingas miestas (režisierius Peteris Makas, 1992), Namas ant jūros kranto (režisierius Edmond’as T. Gréville’s, 1955), Prancūziškas ryšys (režisierius Williamas Friedkinas, 1971) ir, žinoma, Borsalino (režisierius Jacques’as Deray, 1970). Iki šiol rodomas Netflixo serialas (kūrėjas Danas Franckas, 2016–2018). Naršant internete ir ieškant pačių svarbiausių Marselio audiovizualinių reprezentacijų pavadinimų, krinta į akis tai, kad šis miestas komunikuoja kai kuriuos pasikartojančius topoi: pasienio miestas, pačios nelegaliausios veiklos, banditų, jūreivių, nuotykių ieškotojų ir prostitučių daugiaetnės bendruomenės apgyventa vieta. Jos gyventojams dažnai būdingas didelis žavesys ir patrauklumas. Šiame straipsnyje, remiantis kino studijų, muzikologijos, kūrybiškumo studijų ir komunikacijos studijų teorijomis bei metodologijomis, siekiama pabrėžti reikšmių įvairovę, kurią perteikia tiek vizualiniai, tiek muzikiniai šaltiniai. Kaip atvejo tyrime, straipsnyje susitelkiama į Borsalino, kuris yra bene pats garsiausias filmas, nufilmuotas Marselyje. Tai filmas su žymiu garso takeliu (kurį sukūrė džiazo kompozitorius Claude’as Bollingas). Abiem atvejais tobulai, kaip teigiama, sujungiami pirmiau minėti topoi. Reikšminiai žodžiai: audiovizualinė komunikacija, Borsalino, Marselis, muzikologija, filmo muzika, kino studijos, semiotika.

With this essay on decolonizing ways of knowing, I seek to understand the phantom histories of my father’s French family. Filling in silences in written family accounts with scholarship on Marseille’s maritime commerce, African history, African Diaspora studies, and my own archival research, I seek to reconnect European, African, and Caribbean threads of my family story. Travelling from New Orleans to Marseille, Zanzibar, Ouidah, Porto-Novo, Martinique and Guadeloupe, this research at the intersections of personal and collective heritage links critical genealogies to colonial processes that structured the Atlantic world. Through an exploration of family documents, literature, and art, I travel the trade routes of la Maison Régis.

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Afin d'illustrer les obstacles qui jalonnent les parcours de soins et la scolarité des enfants qui ont reçu un diagnostic d'autisme, nous avons choisi de nous intéresser au vécu des familles et aux dispositifs mis en œuvre pour accompagner les enfants et leurs parents à Marseille Nord, où l'indice de désavantage social est très élevé et où la pénurie de places et de moyens concerne aussi bien le secteur public que le secteur privé. Les entretiens réalisés avec 26 familles et 18 professionnels ont permis de montrer que les parents sont majoritairement satisfaits des structures sanitaires et médico-sociales quand ils y ont accès. Tous font part des difficultés rencontrées pour l'inclusion scolaire et insistent sur la fatigue, l'épuisement et la dégradation de la qualité de vie pour l'ensemble de la famille. L'impératif moral de mettre en œuvre le plus tôt possible des programmes éducatifs intensifs engendre souvent un sentiment de culpabilité chez les parents qui n'en ont pas les moyens. La politique actuelle qui consiste à favoriser les services plutôt que les établissements spécialisés et à promouvoir l'implication toujours plus importante des parents, se traduit par une surcharge de travail pour les familles avec des conséquences professionnelles et financières particulièrement importantes pour les mères, surtout pour celles qui se trouvent en situation de précarité. In order to illustrate the obstacles to healthcare and schooling for children with autism, we chose to explore the experiences of families and the systems implemented to accompany children and their parents in the northern districts of Marseille, where precarious situations are numerous and the shortage of places and means affects both the public and the private sectors. Interviews conducted with 26 families and 18 professionals showed that the parents were overall satisfied with health, medical and social services when they had access to them. All of them noted the difficulties encountered for school inclusion, and they all stressed the weariness, the stress and the deterioration in quality of life for the family as a whole. The moral obligation to use intensive educational programmes as early as possible, often generates feelings of guilt among parents who cannot afford this type of service. The present policy, consisting in favouring services rather than specialised establishments and in promoting ever-greater implication on the part of parents leads to a work overload for families, with professional and financial consequences that are particularly great for the mothers, in particular, those in precarious situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Roma people living in makeshift settlements in Western European cities are frequently represented as the ultimate example of socio-spatial marginalisation and vulnerability. In Italy and France, it is common practice for police forces to evict inhabitants from these places, often legitimized by discourses of security and hygiene that highlight the Roma's unhealthy and unsafe living conditions. At the same time, local authorities sometimes provide makeshift settlements with chemical toilets and on-site health care services. In both cases, Roma people are seen and treated as passive objects of public action and power. By focusing on self-care practices and the way Roma people deal with the lack of water and sanitation infrastructures, and drawing on a piece of ethnographic research I conducted in Turin and Marseille, in this paper I show how they take care of themselves and challenge marginalisation and vulnerability. Based on Butlerian arguments, the analysis focuses on how spaces of self-care are constantly re-created and transformed and how the differential allocation of vulnerability is faced accordingly, allowing the Roma people to make their lives liveable. Based on this analysis, the paper concludes with reconsidering the relationship between self-care and vulnerability from a perspective that takes into account both the biological and the biographical dimensions of life. Rethinking self-care and showing how it matters in making life liveable under both these dimensions can open up new possibilities against differential vulnerability and the de-humanisation of the Roma people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Marseille is presented here as an unsuccessful case study of remunicipalisation. While there have been a number of cases in France where water and sanitation services have been successfully returned to public control, remunicipalisation remains the exception rather than the rule. In 2013, a small group of local activists in Marseille attempted without success to cancel a concession contract with Société des Eaux de Marseille (SEM), a subsidiary of Veolia and one of the largest and most powerful water companies in the world. We argue that the contract in Marseille may be one of the hardest to break in France since water and sanitation have been delivered by Veolia since the late 19th century. Given the legal barriers and the deep influence of Veolia over Marseille's political economy, remunicipalisation is unlikely in the absence of a major scandal related to corruption or the quality and pricing of water and sanitation services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural quarters are defined as districts which agglomerate a lot of cultural activities (artists, theaters, etc.). They have been the subject of numerous studies focus on their economic and urban impacts. The purpose of this article is to question the social dimension of these cultural quarters by analyzing the positioning of the cultural players regarding the inhabitants. Does the spatial agglomeration of cultural activities allow the creation of meeting places open to the inhabitants within the cultural districts? The analysis is based on the study of two cultural districts: the Olivettes in Nantes and the Panier in Marseille. The methodology used combines semi-structured interviews and observation to question the cultural players but also the inhabitants and the local elected politicians. The investigations carried out reveal that the majority of the cultural players of the two districts contributes to the opening of the culture to the inhabitants. Some are involved in actions aimed explicitly at creating social links with the inhabitants. Others build informal relationships with the inhabitants. These informal relationships help to demystify artists and artistic places. The clusters of cultural activities rooted in the districts of Olivettes and Le Panier increase the magnitude of the links between the cultural players and the inhabitants by multiplying the meeting opportunities. The positioning, the actions and the local networks of cultural players of these two districts foster the development of social links with the inhabitants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since effective empirical antibiotic therapy is a key factor for survival, local antibiotic resistance epidemiology is critical. We aimed to identify current trends in antibiotic resistance for key antibiotics obtained over 16 years (2001-2016) for invasive infections corresponding to empirical treatment in a large hospital centre in Marseille, France.From January 2014 to December 2016, we have collected all data on antibiotic susceptibility from public laboratory hospitals, and a retrospective analysis was performed on key antibiotics in blood cultures since 2001. A total of 99,932 antibiotic susceptibility testings (ASTs) were analysed, and proportion of pan-drug resistant (PDR = resistant to all antibiotics tested) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR = resistant to all except for two classes) strains were < 0.03 and 0.5%, respectively. Between 2001 and 2016, we found an increase of resistance to third-generation cephalosporins for E. coli invasive strains (0% vs 17.8%; p < 10−5) and K. pneumoniae (8% vs 35.4%; p = 0.001) along with a decrease of methicillin-resistant S. aureus strains (31% vs 19.8%; p = 0.006). Moreover, during the 3-year period, a significant increase of wild-type strains, susceptible to all antibiotics tested, was observed in invasive infections. Regarding bacteraemia involving Enterobacteriaceae and S. aureus, empirical therapy is effective in > 99% cases. Active epidemiological surveillance is necessary because antibiotic resistance remains unpredictable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Wicked City (director Peter Mak, 1992), House on the Waterfront (director Edmond T. Gréville, 1955), The French Connection (director William Friedkin, 1971), the obvious Borsalino (director Jacques Deray, 1970)… up to the recent Netflix series Marseille (creator Dan Franck, 2016–2018): when browsing the titles of the most important audiovisual representations of Marseille, one immediately notices how this city seems to (be made to) communicate a few recurrent topoi: the frontier city, site of mostly illegal activities and inhabited by a multi-ethnic (or rather stateless) community of gangsters, sailors, adventurers and prostitutes – ingredients often mixed with an abundant amount of charm and nostalgic fascination. Mostly informed by the theories and methodologies of film studies, musicology, creativity studies and communication studies, the present article aims to emphasize the consistence of significations conveyed by both visual and musical sources. As a case-study, the article shall focus on Borsalino, possibly – at the same time – the most famous film placed in Marseille and the most famous soundtrack (by jazz composer Claude Bolling) – both, it is argued, perfect syntheses of the above-mentioned topoi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The understanding of ecosystem services is essential to support sustainable use and preservation of ecosystems. Coralligenous habitats, main contributors of the Mediterranean marine biodiversity, are yet understudied in term of services provided. This study presents an original small-scale approach to investigate the services provided by coralligenous habitats of a French study area consisting of two marine sites (Marseille and Port-Cros sites) in order to cover two contrasted anthropogenic pressure despite the small-scale. Our results are based on the opinions of 43 experts who ranked 15 services in terms of existence and level of importance for human well-being: supporting ecological functions were considered the most important, then provisioning and cultural services. Regulating services were considered uncertain due to a lack of knowledge. The small-scale approach highlighted a need for a referential frame to determine the existence of services (e.g. geographical and temporal scales, benefits and beneficiaries levels). Highlights • Coralligenous habitats provide at least 10 ecosystem services according to experts. • The main services are: food provisioning, diving sites, potential of discovery. • Scientific knowledge is missing to identify regulation services. • The number of beneficiaries is the criterion most used to rank services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract Marseille has been exposed to epidemics for two millennia, including plague, cholera and yellow fever. This long-standing exposure to epidemics has given the people of Marseilles a particular expertise in fighting epidemics. Lazarets and other quarantine measures were implemented as a response to preventing the further spread of the disease in the community. The Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection is paving the way today, with its responses built on the region's long history and knowledge of epidemics, infectious diseases and medical microbiology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Marseille is slowly transforming into an important international tourist destination following sustained efforts by city authorities. The influx of international tourists has led to an intensification and diversification of language contact situations in the already highly multilingual city. This chapter aims to provide an analysis of in situ language practices in one of Marseille's key tourist contexts in order to explore the sociolinguistic changes taking place. Using interactional data taken from a long-term fieldwork project undertaken in Marseille's Tourist Office, this chapter focuses on the negotiation and selection of the principal language of interaction in exchanges between international tourists and tourist advisers. These moments are shown to be crucial to the facilitation of communication and the co-construction of meaning and it is shown how speakers mobilise two strategies - explicit requests and tacit negotiations - in these sequences. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the wider sociolinguistic dynamics underpinning these practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]