Description du projet
Un nouveau regard sur la cohésion des sociétés
Les inégalités et la polarisation sont en augmentation dans toute l’Europe. Dans des environnements urbains de plus en plus diversifiés, ces tendances peuvent mettre à rude épreuve les relations communautaires. Le projet EmergentCommunity, financé par l’UE, étudiera les pratiques quotidiennes de coexistence, les modèles de conflit et leur influence sur les sociétés. Il mènera une étude interdisciplinaire utilisant une ethnographie multi-sites, des technologies virtuelles immersives et des mesures psychophysiologiques pour obtenir une vue précise de la dynamique communautaire. Les résultats permettront de mieux comprendre comment les sociétés maintiennent leur cohésion et comment elles se divisent. L’accent sera mis sur les quartiers urbains de Finlande, de France et de Suède – trois pays dont les histoires et les politiques de gestion de la diversité présentent des similitudes intrigantes et des contrastes saisissants. Le projet produira des résultats qui profiteront aux politiques de promotion de la durabilité sociale.
Objectif
Polarization and inequality amongst citizens are on the rise across Europe. In a context of multiple, and intersecting forms of diversity, peaceful coexistence has been increasingly placed under sustained pressure. Crucially, the urgency of finding sustainable solutions to these developments is constrained by a lack of conceptual and theoretical nuance that inhibits critical thinking about emergent constellations of social and political life. This project explores how affective orientations and everyday practices of peace and conflict intertwine and influence societies. In this respect, the study adopts an interdisciplinary research design that uses multi-sited ethnography, immersive virtual technologies, and psycho-physiological measuring to provide cutting-edge insight into community dynamics. The study will provide new grounded knowledge on how societies hold together whilst social and political positions within and between communities multiply. Using complexity as an analytical angle, the project considers the relations, tensions, and forms of collaboration that unfold in the course of everyday life in nine urban neighbourhoods in Finland, Sweden and France. The three countries share a mix of similarities and differences through which the variations in community dynamics and their societal consequences can be identified. Through the adopted interdisciplinary approach, the project will generate beyond state-of-the-art insight into how community dynamic in contemporary societies develops. It will use this knowledge to rethink the notion of community. In the final stage of the project, the empirical, methodological and conceptual insights will be combined to feed into the process of building a theory of emergent communities through which changes to the form of social and political life can be understood. The project will have a high societal impact by providing policymakers and politicians with knowledge on how social sustainability and inclusion can be promoted.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitution d’accueil
33100 Tampere
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