18 novembre 2023
Georges-Henry Laffont et al., « Common goods, soil care and territorial reappropriation in Chanaleilles (Haute Loire): First analyses of a relational ecology under construction », HAL-SHS : géographie, ID : 10670/1.g763ap
Mankind has upset the great terrestrial balances (Berque, 2019) and liberalism hasimposed itself through an existential narrative leading to enclosures, to the transformationof "everything" into a resource (Tsing, 2017). Reweaving links to physical, cultural andsymbolic substratum (Carabelli & Laffont, 2022); refounding new relationships betweenhuman and non-human (Hache, 2012); making milieu (Younès & Goetz, 2010), such isthe challenge! Some regions are renewing their ties with the care of the earth (Pattaroniet al., 2009), by working together through the ordinary, mobilizing technical, social andecological know-how in a dynamic relationship with places and the living (Dewey, 2003).Chanaleilles is a key focus of our attention. In this rural commune in the Haute Loireregion (France), actions are aimed at opening up the field of possibilities by: defendingan existing system based on the values of sharing, cooperation, mutual aid and support;overcoming the constraints and difficulties of the area's situation (mid-range mountains,demographic decline, restrictive laws, etc.). By questioning the relationship with the landthrough the "uses" (grazing, cutting, cultivation, etc.), "living(s)" (human, animal, plant,water), " transit " (transhumance, nomadism, migration, pilgrimage, walking, etc.) entries,this proposal, part of axis 3, has two objectives. Firstly, to understand the brakes, levers and driving forces behind the environment, using a variety of survey methods (observations, interviews, surveys, residence). Secondly, based on Chanaleilles, to explore the potential for re-enchantment of the world of the commons (sectional and communal), certainly beni communi attached to humans (Rodotà, 2016) but also "choses lieux" (Vanuxen, 2018), thought of and mobilized as co-ownership and co-activity of all living things and on the reciprocal principle of debt and gift (Faburel, 2019). It is these initial analyses and explorations that will be proposed for debate.