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The old age policy is the result of narrow interactions between the local level and the national level. Paradoxically, the decentralization did not give more weight to the local actors. On the contrary, the State always exercises a strong supervision on the medical and social sector to the detriment of communities and local actors. Nevertheless, our researches led on the evolution of the old age policy, just like our local monographs, show that, these last years, numerous initiatives emerge locally. They are characterized by a great diversity of shares which borrow logic escaping widely the control of the State. The old age policy so seems to lose coherence. Then it is possible that throughout the action carried out of the coordinated way on the local territories takes shape a redefining of the bases of the old age politics. As a matter of fact many local initiatives are born intended to better take into account the aspiration of the ageing people and to invent more transversal answers. But they would involve dissociating more strongly the “young old” of the “old-old.”
Keywords: territoires, vieillissement, décentralisation, politique de la vieillesse, habitat, territories, ageing, decentralization, old age policy, habitat
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This paper analyses the sociopolitical development of an Algerian immigrant in France based on an ethnographic survey conducted in a onetime housing project in Paris's “red suburbs,” a former epicentre of worker-Communist identity. Through community involvement on top of local political activity, the actions of this young man throughout the first decade of the 2000s shed light on the eminently social foundations of his political legitimization. It was through close contact with cross-generational sociability networks that he was able to politicize a wide swath of the new working class areas alienated from the traditional social and political order.
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AbstractIn this contribution to the debate launched by the editors of this special issue, we wish to clarify the limits to the political process approach and discuss inherent consequences. As an adherent to this approach I frequently see its limits exaggerated while the question of systematic change is neglected. In representing the political process approach, I propose certain changes to the concepts justly queried by the editors to better align them with the basic trends affecting political protest in contemporary society. In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that this approach does not only have limits, but also serves to open doors, build bridges and create synergies.
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The notion of "family" is a global concept used to designate and justify certain views of the social order. In the measure where they will eradicate the real divisions between the groups and favour groupings as large as possible, will they be efficient. What do we mean when publicly speaking of the "family"? We evidently mean the social order, its hierarchical organization and reproduction mode, which, at times, can be forgotten by family policy specialists discussing "priorities" to be given to such and such a type of family, always defined in biological or social terms.
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Seizing the opportunity of recent mobilizations in Québec around abortion, this article wonders whether there is still a symbolic component around maternity in a context that sees the intervention of both the feminist movement and the Welfare State. It traces a progression that leads to a diappearance of the mother in order to allow the emergence of the woman. It also suggests that we must turn back to a reevaluation of the slogan « the children we want, when we want them ».