Contenu du sommaire : Devenirs Métropole

Investing the Metropols
Productive cities are essential for the globalisation because a lot of citizens cooperate inside. Now, a creative society in these cities innovate too for democratic and common.

Cities beyond old Borders and new Closures of Capital
Beyond the old state frontiers and the new closed networks of globalisation, cities must be open. Citizens and migrants have to build together in these cities the governances of sustainable and democratic development.

Becoming Cities of the Favelas
Brazilian cities are involves in new relationship between Brazil and the world, and a double crisis from the future and development. This crisis of globalization is name “Brazilianization” by Mike Davis. For us, the favelas are on the contrary the dynamic powerful of metropolitan development with the becoming-slum of the cities and the becoming-city of the slums.

Rio and the Politic of “Pontos de Cultura”The metropolis of Rio is based on two cultural and artistic practices. An urban municipality “developmentist” project for three great museums is based on the “creative industries” model. The “Pontos de Cultura”, based on the creativeness of favelas and poor neighbourhoods, seem to meet more the demands of social movements.

Metropolitan transborder Workers in the Centre of Europe: Towards a supranational public sphere?
The concept of city without borders and global city are analysed about the European region of SarreLorlux, a mix of cities from different regions and states. They are unable to construct a real metropolis because of politics and administrative divisions. The daily migrants workers are specially suffering from different social systems.

Neolibéral Urbanism or Right at the City
The urban has moved in the centre of the political discussions and conflicts. Worldwide new protest movements for housing, migration or municipal finance are rebellion. A “right to the city” is organizing an urban social movements.

Migrants in the chinese Cities, the Way of Resistance
Rural migrants, in the heart of Chinese development, begin to underpass their community structures to develop now a lot of metropolitan riots against injustice. The strategies of women in these metropolis and of the Chinese diaspora in the world are analysed.

Travelling between the Precarious of Seoul to Osaka
Notes on travel and research on the transformation of casual housing for working poors in Korea and Japan.

Waiting Areas
Becoming metropolitan, a territory is going to have areas of attraction and repulsion, production and reserves. The city is transformed into a lot of zones, and all of kinds, by the force, regulations and oversights. The disorientation that followed gave rise to an extensive sociological literature and fictions. In these urban areas are instigated crimes, riots, innovations and love stories.

Conflictual Dynamics in European Metropols
Beyond the traditional class antagonism in the enterprise, the metropolis is the new territory of the conflict relationships in the globalisation. From small interstices to main poles, the whole metropolitan territory is invested as place of life and work. Beyond a new green capitalism, real alternative proposals as a political, economical end ecological common are now open.

Metamorphoses of Disaster
Based on an anthropological fieldwork realized from 2005 to 2007 in the industrial area of Marseille, this article asks about our society disaster's function. Thus security builds a hierarchy of disasters to teach us what to fear, but also raises again that which threaten us. Would security achieve its goal by that mean? For without hierarchy, disaster appears everywhere, suspended.

The Iranian Question 2Like a movie, the author show us the contrasted and conflicted dynamic that make the History of Iran and its revolutionary social movements. So he managed to escape of the clichés through which the West understands the contemporary Iranian situation and which remains open to a possible revolution.

Who is the Subject of the Green Movement ?
This piece argues that the uprising of the Iranian people since June 2009 election, although self-organised and spontaneous, could have only been possible by the reactivation of a historical collective consciousness in dialectical relationship to the singular structure of this socio-political situation. The piece mainly focuses on the historical coming to be of such a structure from three separate, yet interlinked, horizons. Such an analysis prepares the ground for a quick recap of the process of subjectivation part of the Iranian society went through in what can be described as popular politics par excellence.

Politics of (non-)violence
The question of violence has ever preoccupied the Iranian people in the struggle against a State which use the most cruel forms of violence. Moreover, the hegemony of a discourse of non-violence and civil disobedience, speech sometimes to simplistic and careless of the political circumstances, has make the conditions of people's resistance against violence and the strategic choices of the Green Movement even more problematic. We want in this article questionned the relationship between political violence and the politics of nonviolence in the situation of the Green Movement.

This paper tries to shed light on if the Iranian working class will form a coalition with the Green Movement's pro-capital elites in struggling against the existing authoritarian establishment.

Iranian Women's Movement
In the Revolution of 1979, “Iranian women's movement” has become socially active and apparent in recent years. While some called women the “biggest losers of revolution”, the rise of Islamic government brought both opportunities and threats to different groups of women. Years later, these different groups of women came together to start a “One Million Signatures Campaign to Eliminate Discriminatory Laws in Iran”. While The Campaign has its own achievement, its future tied with future socio-political developments in Iran.