Les "printemps arabe" serait prétendument le résultat de la dégradation des conditions de vie et, en particulier, de la crise économique de 2008. Or, pour comprendre les soulèvements de 2011, il faut se départir d'une approche économiciste et souligner au contraire les interactions entre économie et politique. De fait, ces mouvements relèvent d'une double crise : celle de l'État social autoritaire, d'une part, celle des régimes, d'autre part. Alors que les griefs socioéconomiques ont été au coeur de la contestation, la convergence des choix de politique économique et sociale entre les anciens et les nouveaux dirigeants témoigne de la relativement faible dynamique transformatrice de ces mobilisations.
PREFACE
An Alternative Model of Enterprise, Charity and Society
INTRODUCTION
Beyond the Founder, the Emmaus Movement
At the Centre of the History of Poverty and Humanitarian Aid
From Charity to Solidarity
From the Rag-and-Bone Trade to a Social Economy. Where Solidarity is Key
I – THE 1950s: FROM THE CATACOMBS TO COLLAPSE
Chapter 1 / A UTOPIAN COMMUNITY (1949–1954)
Abbé Pierre Before Emmaus
The "Catacombs Period"
No Ordinary Association
Winter 1954: "The Uprising of Kindness"
Chapter 2 / THE BLOSSOMING OF NEW ACTIVITIES (1954–1958)
A New Organisation is Created
Housing: A Desperate Situation
The Communities: Planting the Roots
The Running Sore at Noisy-le-Grand
New Emmaus Organisations are Born
Chapter 3 / IMPLOSION (1954–1958)
In the Black Box of the Dark Years
“The Murder of the Father?” (December 1957–March 1958)
II – THE 1960s & 1970s: THE MOVEMENT QUIETLY BEGINS TO THRIVE
Chapter 4 / EMMAUS HLM AND THE RISE OF SOCIAL HOUSING
Balancing the Accounts of Winter 1954
An Organisation Ahead of its Time in the Construction Sector
A Business Begins to Develop
The Social Policy of Emmaus Housing Sites
Chapter 5 / THE COMMUNITIES
COHESION AND DISSENSION
The UCC: “The Ethic of Responsibility” and Development from Within
The UACE: “The Ethic of Conviction” and Centrifugal Development
Liberty, Fraternity and the Independents: the Internal Exit Strategy
1968 and the Community Utopia
An All-Consuming Commitment
Chapter 6 / EMMAUS COMPANIONS OF THE “TRENTE GLORIEUSES” (1945–1975)
The Profile of Community Members
The Community, a Place of Work
The Community, a Place to Call Home
The Community, a Place of Solidarity
The Prost Home: the Debate on the (Re)integration of Companions Begins
Chapter 7 / THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF A CATHOLIC MOVEMENT
Individual Initiatives Blossom
Emmaus International: Uniting Diversity
The Many Forms of Emmaus' International Activity
III – 1980–2000: EMMAUS RETURNS TO THE MEDIA AND THE POLITICAL ARENA
Chapter 8 / EMMAUS BEGINS TO SPECIALISE IN MEETING URGENT SOCIAL NEEDS
Emergency Aid
Accommodation Centres: “From the Street Back to Society”
Professionalisation and Militancy
Chapter 9 / EMMAUS RETURNS TO THE FIGHT FOR HOUSING
From Emmaus HLM to Emmaus-Habitat
The Abbé Pierre Foundation: A New Giant in the Emmaus World
Chapter 10 / THE WORLD OF WASTE COLLECTION AND RECYCLING IN THE FACE OF CRISIS AND COMPETITION
Facing the Social Crisis
The Development of Community Life
The Changing World of Waste Collection and Recycling Puts Communities and Committees to the Test
Supervision and Commitment: Friends and Leaders
Solidarity Begins to Change
Chapter 11 / EMMAUS INTERNATIONAL
A NEW POLITICAL DYNAMO
The Place of Politics is Officially Recognised
Emmaus Organisations Change Shape
Chapter 12 / EMMAUS FRANCE
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POLITICAL DISCOURSE
From Abbé Pierre to Emmaus France (1980–1996)
Emmaus France Today (1996–2008)
CONCLUSION
Politics and Religion in the Humanitarian Field
Managing Diversity
Challenges for the Future
APPENDIXES
Emmaus implodes (1954–1961)
The three branches of Emmaus France (2008)