Places Where One Sleeps, Places of Dreams
The nocturnal dreams and sleep of the inhabitants of the Kallisté and Plan d’Aou housing estates, in the “northern districts” of Marseille, are understood in this article not only as the expression of subjectivities, but also as the mirror of a collective experience, a social experience and the characteristics of a territory. The aim is to explore the relationship that is woven between dreams and places, the latter being conceived as the context of the sleep experience, actors participating in the fabrication of dreams and protagonists of night-time experiences. This cross reflection between the places of life and the places of dreams takes shape through an urban ethnography carried out in a neighbourhood where migratory currents are, historically, on a large scale, and which shows how dreams participate in the re-elaboration of the migratory experience by allowing the return “to the country,” communication and crossbreeding between the different places that mark the life courses of the inhabitants.