Abstract

NEVEU, Catherine. To politicize in “not very politicized” contexts: paradoxes and tension regarding the development of the power to act in French social centers. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2019, n.50, pp.7-19.  Epub Dec 19, 2019. ISSN 1850-275X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/cas.i50.7028.

Through an analysis of training practices, this article explores the circulation and appropriation of the notion of “empowerment” as a potential opportunity to politicize discourses, actors and practices in French social centers. The diffusion of this category actualizes a series of structural tensions in the social centers network between on the one hand, an aim of emancipation and social transformation, and on the other hand a set of representations about the political role of social centers. Through and beyond these tensions, the article questions contemporary modes of “political training” of actors when democracy is more thought of as acting than as an issue of abstract training.

Keywords : Empowerment; Politicization; Social centers; Training; Civic competences.

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