Nathalie Blanc, Senior researcher in geog­ra­phy, Uni­ver­sité de Paris and CNRS, Cen­tre des poli­tiques de la terre, Lab­o­ra­toire Dynamiques sociales et recom­po­si­tion des espaces (LADYSS, CNRS, UMR 7533).

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We will qual­i­fy ordi­nary envi­ron­men­tal­ism, the role of civ­il soci­ety and indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive mobi­liza­tions, more or less infor­mal, said to be envi­ron­men­tal in var­i­ous local polit­i­cal con­fig­u­ra­tions. A first objec­tive is to broad­en the under­stand­ing of the forms and prac­tices of envi­ron­men­tal­ism, by shift­ing the gaze towards mobi­liza­tions that are often invis­i­ble or invis­i­ble, although they have a sub­stan­tial impact on the urban envi­ron­ment. A sec­ond objec­tive is to ana­lyze the role of this envi­ron­men­tal­ism in a renew­al of the ter­ri­to­ries, as in the trans­for­ma­tion of polit­i­cal behav­ior in these ter­ri­to­ries. We will exam­ine the way in which these mobi­liza­tions con­tribute to renew­ing the imple­men­ta­tion of local poli­cies, and more broad­ly, through the swarm­ing of con­crete exper­i­ments, the under­stand­ing of what pol­i­tics and poli­cies mean.

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