« Faunes sauvages » en politique. Tisser et mettre en scène un territoire contestataire : de la ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes à Bure

• Main Author: Pablo Corroyer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes 2019-10-01
• Series: L'Espace Politique
• Subjects: ZAD; Bure; occupation; autonomy; protest territory; radical ecologists movements
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/6344

This paper aims to grasp the specific “territoriality regime” (Melé, 2011) of "Autonomes" inhabitants of Notre Dame des Landes' ZAD and Bure' (burrying site for nuclear waste). This regime is characterized by a “radical” criticism -made of daily gestures- of the institutional and marketable way of planning territories. This regime is based on a valuation of the domestic environment by the activists-inhabitants. These struggles are made of numerous intimate engagements and antagonistic hardships: it appears that they have to be simultaneously understood as a territorialization of politics and a politicization of the territory. We investigate the way how humans, animals, plants and more-than-objects weave and protect a territory which tends to emerge as a collective actor of the mobilization.