De l’îlot à la métropole. Relocalisation de la politique et politisation de la métropole à Lyon

Abstract

Metropolisation is today a central object of academic criticism and social movements. Associated with the evolutions of capitalism, it would tend to become a major axis in the denunciation of the neoliberalization of cities. In Lyon, and more particularly in La Guillotière, a neighborhood undergoing profound transformations, in a context of affirmation of the metropolis as an institution, several local urban struggles oppose the social, environmental and material consequences of metropolisation. These mobilizations contribute to the dynamics of the reappropriation of urban spaces, the relocalization of politics and the politicization of the metropolitan scale. They trace two paths for political transformation on a local scale: invest the metropolitan institution in order to politicize it by imposing an alternative to the neo-liberal hegemony; relocalize politics on a neighborhood scale, by reconquering the common in the metropolitan space.

Keywords

• Metropolis
• metropolisation
• urban struggle
• Lyon
• political relocalization