BANCRISIS: THE “SUBSURBS” FACING THE COVID CRISIS
« The BANCRISIS project aims to shed light on the emergence and functioning of local solidarity networks that were mobilized in working-class neighborhoods in the Lyon metropolitan area during the first lockdown, as well as their articulation with associative and institutional actors.»
Studying the emergence of solidarity networks during the first lockdown in the Lyon metropolitan area
During the first lockdown (March 16-June 3, 2020), the priority neighborhoods of the city policy were the subject of contradictory discourses that oscillated between the denunciation of non-compliance with the lockdown and the celebration of “local solidarity”, localized, concrete and inventive. These neighborhoods were particularly affected by the economic and social consequences of the pandemic and the lockdown. This research project focuses on the local mutual aid networks that were mobilized in the working-class neighborhoods of the Lyon metropolitan area. It questions the range of local solidarity that came to the aid of people weakened by the social and health crisis. This research project questions how the local solidarity networks mobilized during the first lockdown (March 16-June 3, 2020) in the Lyon metropolitan area were formed, function, and are linked to existing structures.
Combining quantitative and qualitative methods to document the functioning of local mutual aid networks
This research focuses on the local solidarity networks mobilized in the Buers neighborhoods in Villeurbanne and Minguettes in Vénissieux during the first lockdown (March 16-June 3, 2020). Historically, these neighborhoods have been the place where activist networks inspired by popular education and committed to defending the living environment, the fight against police deviance
and the fight against exclusion were formed. Since the 2010s, some activist networks have implemented one-off forms of mutual aid for the benefit of vulnerable populations (Chibanis, migrants, foreign students, Syrian refugees) or more permanent ones such as patrols near Lyon train stations (Perrache and Part-Dieu). The survey is divided into two interdependent parts. The first part consists of mapping the mutual aid networks within the two neighborhoods. The second part consists of a survey through interviews with members of the mutual aid networks and associative and institutional actors involved in social action at the local level.
Knowledge to help vulnerable people in priority neighborhoods during disasters
By shedding light on how these local mutual aid networks work and how they could work with social and humanitarian actors, the project provides real added value to improve aid to vulnerable people in priority neighborhoods during disasters. In this way, better coordination between the power and resources of large organizations on the one hand, and detailed knowledge of the terrain and needs on the other, can increase the effectiveness of Red Cross interventions in the event of a disaster in these neighborhoods.
Biography
Foued Nasri has a doctorate in political science. He is currently a lecturer in sociology at the University of Saint-Etienne. He continued his postdoctoral studies at the University of Geneva on a project on Muslim organizations in Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom. He recently published, with Samir Hadj Belgacem, La marche de 1983, des mémoires à l’histoire d’une mobilisation collective, published by the Nanterre University Press. His research also focuses on the commitments of US diplomatic missions to issues relating to ethnic minorities in France and Europe.