Publication: Crisis y economía moral en Roubaix
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Colectivo Rosa Bonheur
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Murcia : Universidad de Murcia, Departamento de Sociología y Trabajo Social
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Este artículo trata de aportar alguna reflexión a la idea de “respuesta social a la
crisis”, a partir del concepto de “economía moral” desarrollado por Thompson,
Scott y algunos otros autores. Para ello nos apoyamos sobre una investigación
etnográfica en curso en Roubaix, antiguo bastión de la industria textil francesa
situado en el eje Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing. En las últimas décadas, la
desindustrialización, la privatización de las formas de gestión social del riesgo,
las lógicas securitarias… han construido una territorialidad de relegación que a
su vez viene produciendo lo popular. En estos contextos, las clases populares de
Roubaix deben construir estrategias de subsistencia, en una lucha cotidiana por
una recualificación material y simbólica. Si las economías morales se han
desgajado de la economía política neoliberal, éstas son hoy el terreno abonado
donde tienen lugar, a escala territorial, los procesos de descomposición y de
recomposición subjetiva de las clases populares de relegación
ABSTRACT The concept of « moral economy », developed by Thompson, Scott and others, appears to be very helpful when focusing on « social answers to the crisis ». Based on an ongoing collective ethnographic investigation in Roubaix, a former textile-industry city in the North of France, this article examines the articulation of this sociological concept, and the current socio-economical context in this type of de-industrialized, relegated areas. These lower class territories determine lower classes' everyday life, but lower classes reciprocally contribute in shaping these territories. Lower classes have to build strategies to survive, in a daily fight for material and symbolic re-qualification. Moral economies, built in the context of neo-liberal political economy, despite it and/or against it, have become the field of subjective composition and re-composition of lower classes.
ABSTRACT The concept of « moral economy », developed by Thompson, Scott and others, appears to be very helpful when focusing on « social answers to the crisis ». Based on an ongoing collective ethnographic investigation in Roubaix, a former textile-industry city in the North of France, this article examines the articulation of this sociological concept, and the current socio-economical context in this type of de-industrialized, relegated areas. These lower class territories determine lower classes' everyday life, but lower classes reciprocally contribute in shaping these territories. Lower classes have to build strategies to survive, in a daily fight for material and symbolic re-qualification. Moral economies, built in the context of neo-liberal political economy, despite it and/or against it, have become the field of subjective composition and re-composition of lower classes.
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