Book chapter: "La peine d'en être? Sociologie politique du malheur militant dans les conflits de proximité" by Stéphanie DECHEZELLES in "Le malheur militant" Ed. De Boeck Superieur edited by Olivier FILLIEULE, Catherine LECLERCQ and Rémi LEFEBVRE.
Presentation
While the rewards of activism have been extensively studied, we know less about the suffering it can generate: disillusionment, devaluation, doubts, tensions, wear and tear, repression, exile... This book explores them in a new way, offering a sociological analysis where psychological approaches are often favoured. Far from discouraging collective action, it aims to objectify mechanisms that are all the more painful because they remain unspoken: closing off possibilities, changing power relations, strategies and repertoires of action, drying up of rewards, morphological transformations of the groups mobilised, misalignments between institutional and individual trajectories.
The authors set out to understand as well as explain these logics, using a variety of methods and objects (partisan, associative, trade union and religious commitments at local, national and international levels), making this volume a reference on the workings of commitment and an original contribution to the sociology of affects.
Contents
INTRODUCTION. The tribulations of commitment. Contribution to a sociology of affects, by Olivier FILLIEULE, Catherine LECLERCQ and Rémi LEFEBVRE
PART ONE. The costs of commitment: tensions and dilemmas
1. Clémentine COMER, Bleuwenn LECHAUX, Un malheur de femmes? The misfortunes of women activists on the radical left in the 1970s
2. Stéphanie DECHEZELLES, La peine d'en être? The political sociology of militant unhappiness in local conflicts
3. Luc SEMAL, L'adieu aux deux degrés. Activism in a time of ecological and climatic irreversibility
4. Karine LAMARCHE, "Qui suis-je si je ne milite plus? The Berlin refuge for Israelis (dis)committed to the occupation
5. Joseph HIVERT, L'enfance du désordre. A sociological approach to the suffering of the children of political prisoners in Morocco.
PART TWO. At odds with the institution: adaptations and renunciations
6. Philippe GOTTRAUX, Cécile PÉCHU and Nuno PEREIRA, La variation des émotions négatives lors de scissions. Le cas d'une organisation marxiste-léniniste dans les années 1970 (The case of a Marxist-Leninist organisation in the 1970s).
7. Manuel CERVERA-MARZAL, Le tiraillement organisationnel au sein de Podemos. Resources and ways of adapting to militant malaise
8. Rémi LEFEBVRE, Souffrir mais tenir. The plight of activists on the left of the Socialist Party
9. Catherine LECLERCQ, La relégation. A communist worker "left by the party".
10. Nicolas SIMONPOLI, Condamné à rester? The disarray of a permanent member of the trade union movement undergoing retraining
11. Yann RAISON DU CLEUZIOU, Mystique et sollicitude : les répertoires de gouvernement des religieux éprouvés par la " tentation " amoureuse (années 1940 - années 1970) (Mysticism and solicitude: the repertoires of government of religious tried by the "temptation" of love (1940s - 1970s)).
POSTFACE by Bernard PUDAL
