Titre :

Governing through bonds and culture? The intermediation work in partnership arrangements targeting poor neighborhoods in France and Germany

Auteur(s) :

Chevallier, Thomas [Auteur]

Date de publication :

2023-06

Mot(s)-clé(s) :

Poor urban neighborhood policies -western Europe -nonprofit organization-neoliberal poverty governance -social work

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Since the 1970s, policies targeting poor urban neighborhoods have been developed in several western european countries as part of the neoliberal reframing of the poverty treatment paradigm. Besides urban renewal programs, ...
Lire la suite >Since the 1970s, policies targeting poor urban neighborhoods have been developed in several western european countries as part of the neoliberal reframing of the poverty treatment paradigm. Besides urban renewal programs, these policies deploy governance, partnership and participation arrangements with the aim of penetrating the social world of certain local residents targeted as problematic, building links with them in order to change their behaviors. This work of social and cultural intermediation is carried out by various private actors, notably nonprofits, through a proper division of partnership labor. Based on a comparative field study within two partnership arrangements organized as part of French and German neighborhood development policies, it shows that these strategies are quiet ineffective. Looking more specifically at the interactions between social workers and local residents, the investigation reveals partnership arrangements to be places of negotiation, if not resistance vis-à-vis the cultural prescriptions coming from institutions and relayed by certain associative professionals. Confronted with what I propose to describe as cultural condescension, local residents resist by generally remaining aloof from the prescriptions aimed at them. Social workers play a pivotal role in this resistance. In the division of partnership labor, they are in charge of mobilizing the relationships built up with targeted residents to get them to participate in actions. However, in the spaces and lasting relationships they build with residents, they tend, by taking the latter seriously, to enable them to resist institutional prescriptions by asserting their own aspirations and concerns.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Collections :

• Centre d'Études et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales (CERAPS) - UMR 8026

Date de dépôt :

2024-09-17T10:44:47Z