Circulations et recompositions des espaces du politique dans les ONG: le cas d'Emmaus

In: Politique et sociétés, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 91-109

Abstract

Grounded by l'abbe Pierre in 1949, Emmaus is a major French NGO (non-governmental organization) & also an international movement. To answer the question of the frontiers & scales changes in social movements, this article analyses how politics circulated & transformed since the 1950s between a national space & the international associative space, how it led Catholics to political thinking & acting, & finally to the emancipation of religious aspects. This geographical porosity is also linked to a generational one: Emmaus can be considered as an "old" social movement, which is today very close to the "new" social ones. Adapted from the source document.