Un conflit d’aménagement dans les « beaux quartiers » parisiens.

Abstract

In 2016, the installation of an emergency shelter in Paris, in the 16th arrondissement, provoked a new mobilization by the local residents associations, which had been involved for about ten years in several land use conflicts. In this case, the actions of the protesters went further than before. Protests in western Paris, a bourgeois, conservative area, are typically inspired by the collective actions one might expect from affluent residents who are reluctant to challenge public authority. They tend to favor legal action and, above all, to challenge and solicit local elected officials to defend their interests at the highest level. Additionally, like all development conflicts that have been seen in Paris since the 1990s, this new mobilization has had repercussions in the political sphere: it reinforces the rivalries between all those political actors looking to gain or maintain electoral control of Paris.

Keywords

• Planning Conflicts
• Local Geopolitics
• Paris
• Repertoire of Collective Action
• Appropriation of Space