Community development, empowerment and youth participation in social-housing neighbourhoods in France
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2022
- handle: 10670/1.q8uq72
- isbn: 978-1447362760
- halshs: halshs-03891571
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empowerment France Governance radical democracy Social housing urban renewal youth collective mobilisationSujets proches
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Gülçin Erdi, « Community development, empowerment and youth participation in social-housing neighbourhoods in France », HAL-SHS : sciences politiques, ID : 10670/1.q8uq72
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This chapter is based on empirical research conducted during 2017–2019 in a social housing and multiethnic neighbourhood, Sanitas, located in Tours, France. It focuses on a mobilisation against a renewal project in the neighbourhood and the relationships between different local structures including the Social Centre, Citizen Council and Sanitas Collective. The chapter argues that the top-down creation of participatory tools does not enable real empowerment of inhabitants leading to a local radical democracy but rather reflects the nature of neoliberal urban governance based on the efficiency of urban policies and the deconflictualisation of urban projects. It also discusses the tensions between different groups like young and ‘racialised’ people and activists in associations and the role the Social Centre plays in managing these tensions. Finally, the author highlights the importance of involving youth in the everyday life of the neighbourhood within the context of urban renewal.