Issue |
Nat. Sci. Soc.
Volume 29, Number 3, Juillet/Septembre 2021
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Page(s) | 288 - 298 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/nss/2021058 | |
Published online | 25 November 2021 |
L’engagement militant dans la recherche en agriculture urbaine. Réflexions sur le contexte français au miroir du scholar activism nord-américain
Activist engagement in urban agriculture research. Reflections on the French context in the mirror of North American scholar activism
1
Géographie, Université de Lausanne, Institut de géographie et durabilité,
Lausanne, Suisse
2
Économie, Université de Lausanne, Institut de géographie et durabilité,
Lausanne, Suisse
3
Géographie, Université Paris Nanterre, UMR LAVUE,
Paris, France
* Auteur correspondant : joelle.salomoncavin@unil.ch
Reçu :
22
Juillet
2019
Accepté :
5
Novembre
2020
Cet article propose une réflexion collective sur l’engagement militant à partir de la recherche en agriculture urbaine en France et aux États-Unis. Il s’appuie sur une revue qualitative de la littérature, complétée par une série de séminaires. Ancrée dans la géographie critique et militante, la recherche sur l’agriculture urbaine aux États-Unis se concentre sur le jardinage communautaire et promeut la justice alimentaire. Dans le contexte français, les registres espaces et acteurs considérés sont beaucoup plus diversifiés et la réflexivité critique et politique comparativement moins développée. L’article se conclut par un appel à plus de réflexivité critique en ce domaine.
Abstract
This article is a collective reflection on how militant commitment shapes urban agriculture research in France and in the United States. It is based on a qualitative literature review complemented by a series of seminars and interviews devoted to researchers’ experiences of engagement. In the United States, researchers who define themselves as activists clearly refer to critical and radical traditions of geography. Scholar activism is associated with identified epistemic communities and designates relatively codified ways of conceiving research to serve community struggles and projects. In France, the political commitment of intellectuals is above all an individual affair. Research on urban agriculture exemplifies these differences. In the United States it is largely conducted by scholar-activists and focuses on community gardening, and promotes the overall goal of food justice. In France, it borrows from various registers and focuses on much more diversified spaces and actors, and is globally marked by a lack of critical and political reflexivity. The article concludes with a call for more reflexivity in clarifying the ontological and epistemological assumptions of this field of research.
Mots clés : recherche / ville / agriculture urbaine / cultures épistémiques / engagement
Key words: research / city / urban agriculture / epistemic cultures / activism
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