Entreprendre en politique. Les carrières militantes des fondateurs de SOS-Racisme
Résumé
Being active in politics. From the extreme left to the french socialist party : the political professionalisation of the founders of Sos-racisme
Through an analysis of the militant careers of Julien Dray and the founders of SOS-Racisme, the article seeks to account first for the logic of their initial commitment within the [Trotskyite] LCR [Ligue communiste révolutionnaire], then for their investment in extreme-left student organizations and finally for their reasons for joining the Socialist Party. Passage from the extreme-left to the Socialist Party was caused on the one hand by the need – for a specific generation of student political cadres who entered politics in the post-1968 era and were over the age of 30 in 1983 – to obtain professional positions corresponding to their militant status, and on the other hand, by opportunities for promotion and new affiliations opened up by the Left's accession to power in 1981. The militant careers of these groups'members appear as a succession of conversions, both ideological and professional, which militants had to undergo in relation to the social spaces which they entered and of the opportunities provided by each new step in the process of accumulation of political resources.
Through an analysis of the militant careers of Julien Dray and the founders of SOS-Racisme, the article seeks to account first for the logic of their initial commitment within the [Trotskyite] LCR [Ligue communiste révolutionnaire], then for their investment in extreme-left student organizations and finally for their reasons for joining the Socialist Party. Passage from the extreme-left to the Socialist Party was caused on the one hand by the need – for a specific generation of student political cadres who entered politics in the post-1968 era and were over the age of 30 in 1983 – to obtain professional positions corresponding to their militant status, and on the other hand, by opportunities for promotion and new affiliations opened up by the Left's accession to power in 1981. The militant careers of these groups'members appear as a succession of conversions, both ideological and professional, which militants had to undergo in relation to the social spaces which they entered and of the opportunities provided by each new step in the process of accumulation of political resources.
En analysant les carrières militantes de Julien Dray et des fondateurs de SOS-Racisme, l'article cherche à comprendre les logiques de leur engagement initial au sein de la LCR puis celles de leur investissement dans des organisations étudiantes d'extrême gauche et enfin les raisons de leur entrée dans le parti socialiste. Le passage de l'extrême gauche au PS résulte, d'une part, de la nécessité d'acquérir – pour une génération particulière de cadres politiques étudiants entrés en politique durant l'après-68 et dépassant les trente ans en 1983 – des positions professionnelles correspondant à leur statut militant, et, d'autre part, des opportunités de promotions et de reclassements ouverts par l'arrivée de la gauche au pouvoir en 1981. La carrière militante des membres de ces groupes apparaît alors comme une succession de reconversions indissociablement idéologiques et professionnelles qui s'imposent aux militants en fonction des espaces sociaux qu'ils investissent et des opportunités que leur procure chaque nouvelle étape du processus d'accumulation de ressources politiques.
Mots clés
extreme-left
french Socialist Party
political professionalisation
militant careers
student activism
political socialization
student trade unions
political enterpreneurs
antiracism
Parti socialiste
extrême gauche
professionnalisation politique
militantisme étudiant
Mai 68
SOS-Racisme
socialisation politique
Unef-id
syndicalisme étudiant
entrepreneurs politique
antiracisme
Julien Dray
Harlem Désir
Fichier principal
JuhemEntreprendreEnPolitiqueSOS-RacismeRFSP2001.pdf (1.56 Mo)
Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte