Politiser le quotidien par le translocal

The scalar dimension of social movements is one of the meeting points between Political Science and Social Geography. While the first has long considered the question of scale as a given, reifying them as a relatively rigid “hierarchy” between the “local”, “national”, and “international”, the second...

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Published inCarnets de géographes Vol. 12
Main Author Alex Mahoudeau
Format Journal Article
LanguageFrench
Published UMR 245 - CESSMA 01.12.2019
Subjects
Camps
Local
Palestinians
Scale
Social Movements
Translocal
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Summary:The scalar dimension of social movements is one of the meeting points between Political Science and Social Geography. While the first has long considered the question of scale as a given, reifying them as a relatively rigid “hierarchy” between the “local”, “national”, and “international”, the second has proposed alternative frameworks, describing scales as social relations between locales that can take multiple shapes. Relying on the idea of a “politics of scale”, this paper is interested in the ways in which the actions of a group of activists in the Palestinian refugee camps of Beirut have led to the construction and mobilisation of a particular and translocal relation of scale, through investment in the production and diffusion of local problems focused on the everyday and material life of the camps. By investing this space, defined as translocal, these activists managed to overcome the rejection of “politics” which constitutes one of the main impediments to the public denunciation of actors perceived as dominants in the camps as well as in national institutions.
ISSN:2107-7266
DOI:10.4000/cdg.4799