Residential insecurity as an obstacle to collective action
Lion, Gaspard
Residential insecurity as an obstacle to collective action - 2021.
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Drawing on an ethnographic study of the eviction of inhabitants of a municipal campsite in the Paris region, this article underlines the central role of residential and status insecurity – and more broadly of sociospatial determinants – in hidering successful collective action by vulnerable people. First, it shows how the unpredictability associated with the legal status of this accommodation becomes a political weapon for the mayor, who manages to divide nascent opposition to rumours of the closure of the campsite; second, it reveals the instruments of symbolic violence that ultimately undermine attempts at resistance, thus ensuring the success of the plan to evict the campsite.
Residential insecurity as an obstacle to collective action - 2021.
1
Drawing on an ethnographic study of the eviction of inhabitants of a municipal campsite in the Paris region, this article underlines the central role of residential and status insecurity – and more broadly of sociospatial determinants – in hidering successful collective action by vulnerable people. First, it shows how the unpredictability associated with the legal status of this accommodation becomes a political weapon for the mayor, who manages to divide nascent opposition to rumours of the closure of the campsite; second, it reveals the instruments of symbolic violence that ultimately undermine attempts at resistance, thus ensuring the success of the plan to evict the campsite.
Réseaux sociaux