UN RENOUVEAU DE LA PARTICIPATION ASSOCIATIVE ? L'engagement et le militantisme au sein du comité Attac Isère

Contents

INTRODUCTION 5

The figure of the militant 5

At the beginning, a leading article 6

Presentation of oneself 8

A comparative study 11

A new age of the associative participation ? 12

A renewal of the approaches of engagement and political participation ? 13

The investigation of ground 15

The diversity of surveyed 17

Systems of representation 18

The setting in question (S) of engagements 19

PART 1 ASSOCIATIVE MODE

1 a renewed associative form? 23

1.1 The setting in scene of the movement 23

1.1.1 The «call» of the Diplomatic World 24

1.1.1.1 An associative cultural reference 24

1.1.1.2 Construction symbolic system of the origin 29

1.1.2 Presentation of oneself 32

1.1.2.1 Fastening with popular education 32

1.1.2.2 The construction of an associative dynamics 35

1.1.2.3 Strategy of mediatization 38

1.2 Dialectical enters the room and the national ? 42

1.2.1 Statutes and the organization of Attac 42

1.2.1.1 The charter founder 42

1.2.1.2 Statutes of association 44

1.2.2 The local development of Attac 47

1.2.2.1 The constitution of the local committees 47

1.2.2.2 The committee isérois 49

1.2.3 Recognition of the local committees 52

1.2.3.1 A legitimate recognition ? 52

1.2.3.2 Modification of the statutes 55

1.3 One « internal democracy » disputed 59

1.3.1 Questioning of « national directory » 59

1.3.1.1 A collective operating mode 59

1.3.1.2 The refusal of a personalization of the capacity 61

1.3.1.3 Contradictions of the committee isérois 64

1.3.2 Relations between Grenoble and Paris 69

1.3.2.1 A relation of criticized opposition 69

1.3.2.2 Relations without ambiguities ? 70

2 the associative share of engagement ................................................................. 74

2.1 Associative virtues 75

2.1.1 An additional liberty of action 75

2.1.1.1 The refusal of a hierarchical and centralized operation 75

2.1.1.2 Association : an organization with flexible operation 77

2.1.2 The respect of pluralism 79

2.1.2.1 The refusal of conformism 79

2.1.2.2 A compartmental engagement 82

2.1.3 A disputed freedom ............................................................................................ 85

2.2 A precise but total engagement 91

2.2.1 To fight against the speculation 91

2.2.1.1 The tax formulated by James Tobin 91

2.2.1.2 The D-appropriation of the Tobin tax by Attac 93

2.2.2 The widening of the claims 96

2.2.2.1 Tobin tax with the boycott of Danone 96

2.2.2.2 logics of these widenings 99

2.2.3 Limits and unit 103

2.2.3.1 Illegitimate claims ? 103

2.2.3.2 Limits with the claims 108

2.2.3.2.1 The unit of Attac : the fight counters the financial markets 108

2.2.3.2.2 The risk of confusion 109

PART 2 TO TAKE PART DIFFERENTLY

1 new social conflicts 115

1.1 The alarm clock of the collective protest 115

1.1.1 The new dynamics of the social movements 116

1.1.1.1 Decline and revival of the social conflicts .......................................................... 116

1.1.1.2 The interpretation of the social conflicts ..................................................................... 119

1.1.2 Which revival of engagement ? 122

1.1.2.1 The participation of surveyed 122

1.1.2.2 The mythification of the social movements 126

1.2 New forms of mobilization 128

1.2.1 The internationalization of the social conflicts 129

1.2.1.1 Birth of « against-tops » 129

1.2.1.2 The constitution of an anti-mondialiste network 132

1.2.2 Forms of the associative participation 134

1.2.2.1 The integration of the individual to the vertical networks 134

1.2.2.2 A new age of the participation ? 136

1.3 The place of Attac within the anti-mondialiste network 138

1.3.1 A diversified associative network 138

1.3.1.1 Associations protesters 139

1.3.1.2 The role of the intellectuals in the social conflicts 140

1.3.2 The influence of the trade unions in Attac 142

1.3. 2.1 trade-union recombining 142

1.3.2.2 A trade-union network isérois not very dense 148

1.3.3 Adhesion like individual act 151

2. New militants ? 157

2.1 The comprehension of engagement 157

2.1.1 The figure of the militants 159

2.1.1.1 A strong socio-professional categorization 160

Document: Compared socio-professional structures 164

2.1.1.2 Prevalence of the middle class 165

2.1.2 Socio-demographic categories 167

2.1.2.1 The kind and the age of Attacants 167

2.1.2.2 A generation 68 ? 169

Document: Compared générationnelles structures 173

2.1.2 The nature of engagement 175

2.1.2.1 The reference to the citizenship 175

2.1.2.2 A moral company ? 178

2.1.2.3 Values post-materialists with the catégoriels interests 181

2.1.3 Remunerations of the militancy 185

2.1.3.1 a formation directed towards the action 186

2.1.3.2 The personal investment 187

2.1.3.3 The inscription in a network of sociability 191

2.2 A militancy « by bottom » ? 196

2.2.1 The popular work of education 196

2.2.1.1 To inform and include/understand 196

2.2.1.1.1 Economic information 196

2.2.1.1.2 A militant formation 199

2.2.1.2 Limits of popular education 200

2.2.1.2.1 The popularization of the claims 200

2.2.1.2.2 Not very gravitational modes of formation 206

2.2.1.3 A militancy « liability » 208

2.2.1.3.1 Which « reappropriation » of the ideas ? ............................................................. 208

2.2.1.3.2 The domination symbolic system ........................................................................... 211

2.2.2 Forms of the mobilizations 213

2.2.2.1 The revival of the repertory of collective actions 214

2.2.2.1.1 The preeminence of the symbolic system 214

2.2.2.1.2 A festive mode of action 215

2.2.2.1.3 Legitimacy by the number 216

2.2.2.2 The search for a legitimate mode of protest 219

2.2.2.2.1 To answer violence 219

2.2.2.2.2 Which mode of protest ? 223

To express in Genoa 225