L’usage du quartier dans les politiques de « participation citoyenne ». Vers un « ancrage mobile » aux marges de Rosario et de Montevideo ?

Abstract

This article focuses on the role and importance of the neighborhood in public policies implemented in the margins of Rosario (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay). It wishes to study how both cities take a firm grip on the neighborhood, and how their "citizen participation" policies create forms of rooting open to the outside. Through the close link between rooting and mobility, public policies in Montevideo engender a mobile rooting phenomenon – in Rosario, the rooting is circulatory, only existing in and through movement. The associations of unemployed people continually have to commute between their borough and the outside. In both Rosario and Montevideo, local organizations partly respect such established relations between mobility and rooting, though trying to redefine, escape or oppose them.

Keywords

• mobility
• collective action
• neighborhood
• rooting
• participation