Please join us for a conversation around the publication States of emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum, published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, with the author Léopold Lambert.

States of Emergency navigates crisis across three distinct French colonial space-times: the Algerian Revolution (1954–1962), the Kanak Insurrection (1984–1988), and France’s banlieues uprisings (2005–2020). Attending to the most recent state of emergency imposed in 2015, the book traces the mechanics of this counterrevolutionary legal framework across multiple geographies in order to draw out and fortify key anticolonial solidarities across space and time.

This event is free of charge, but space is limited, so registration is recommended.

Léopold Lambert is a trained architect living in Paris. He is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist, a bilingual magazine dedicated to the politics of space and bodies and the cultivation of internationalist solidarities. He is also the author of Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012), Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Clothe, the Wall, and the Street (punctum, 2015), and La politique du bulldozer: La ruine palestinienne comme projet israélien (B2, 2016).