Alliance Citoyenne
Summary
France’s leading community-organising organisation, in the Alinsky/ACORN tradition. Publishes practical campaign accounts and method explainers.
Body
Alliance Citoyenne is a French community-organising network that applies the community organising (Alinsky-tradition) method to citizen mobilisation on local issues in France [source: alliance-citoyenne]. The network describes community organising as an innovative method that puts citizens in motion by giving them the power to act on their main concerns, and offers new perspectives to field actors concerned with evolving their practice in the face of current citizen-participation challenges [source: alliance-citoyenne]. The network is part of the broader European Alinsky-tradition scene and is closely linked to the Centre for Civic Innovation and the French branch of the Industrial Areas Foundation [source: alliance-citoyenne]. Alliance Citoyenne runs the Alinsky.fr toolbox site (see alinsky-fr) that publishes its community-organising curriculum in French [source: alliance-citoyenne].
Coverage: Alliance Citoyenne’s site presents community organising in France through a schematised model - the four marches du pouvoir citoyen (four steps of citizen power: organiser - revendiquer - agir - negocier; or organise - demand - act - negotiate) - and through the democratie d’interpellation (interpellation democracy) frame, which argues that a balanced democracy requires civil society to be able to call decision-makers to account [source: alliance-citoyenne]. The network publishes downloadable tools, schemas, and worked examples from French campaigns that adapt the US Alinsky tradition to the post-2014 French citizen-mobilisation context (e.g. mobilisations on housing, environmental justice, and public services) [source: alliance-citoyenne].
A campaigner reaches for it when designing a French-tradition community-organising programme, when training new Alinsky-tradition organisers in FR, or when looking for worked examples of the method outside the US context [source: alliance-citoyenne]. Treat as link-only. [source: alliance-citoyenne]
Use it for
Studying French community-organising practice; sourcing case studies on housing and anti-discrimination campaigns.
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