Demichel-Basnier, Sarah

Conviviality: a tool to live well together in the poor neighbourhoods? - 2021.


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Moments of conviviality in working-class neighborhoods can be considered under the seal of celebration and human “communion”, but they are often invested with a normative aspect - living well together - by public authorities, via the Neighbors’ Day in particular, which weakens the convivial and common scope of these initiatives. It is then a question of acting on the inhabitants and not with them in order to normalize human relations to the detriment of social transformation.