Monday, January 16, 2017

ET SI LE 4x4 ÉTAIT DEVENU UNE CATÉGORIE POLITIQUE ?

Traditionnellement la politique se définit par et sur du fixe : un territoire bien délimité et des citoyens domiciliés à une adresse bien déterminée. 

L'analyse politique se faisait t donc de façon traditionnelle à partir d'une analyses de lieux fixes : des lieux de résidence, des circonscriptions électorales, des typologies socio-professionnelles lié à des zones urbaines ou rurales.

Bref, sur du fixe.

Mais dans des sociétés de mobilité généralisée comme le sont devenues les nôtres, pour comprendre les motivations politiques des citoyens, faut-il regarder là ou ils habitent ou comment il se déplacent ?

C'est une des questions que je me suis se posé en lisant le tres stimulant "Architecture that constructs a better world, not better bubbles, is the true task in this new year" de Aaron Betsky, qui fait un lien entre la civilisation du 4x4 et la victoire de Trump

Cet article concerne les États-Unis mais, bien évidement, ce genre de grille de lecture politique fondée sur la mobilité pourrait s'appliquer à tous les pays.

"We live in a pick-up nation, and we have elected a president who represents that particular mobile bubble. Those of us who live in virtual bubbles, isolated from reality and work in our connected and conditioned world, never imagined that the political disaster of the last election could befall us."(...)
(...) "Now we will have to live with the revenge of the Pick-Up Nation cruising on our federally subsidised roads, burning fossil fuels (as all of us do) and shrugging their shoulders at any investment in public transportation or infrastructure while their chosen overlords relax in their own condo cocoons and business-class bubbles. Meanwhile, people like me (my Facebook friends, my colleagues, my associates) will have the privilege of pretending reality does not exist as we retreat into our own bubbles." (...)
(...) "Pick-up trucks and their delivery versions have transformed the American landscape into one of strip malls, warehouses, and ever more isolated residential developments. We are moving beyond the purely car-dependent landscape.(...)
(...) "But the landscape the pick-up helped to shape has become our vernacular landscape. Life in a pick-up truck is reality-bound, suburban, or rural. It takes places outside the rarified crystal cities where both the very rich and the very poor live. People who drive pick-up trucks have – or had – real jobs, often involving physical labour. They have to move around a lot, from home to work, to stores, to schools, to health care and to each other." (...) 
(...) "Pick-up drivers do not need trains, buses, or, generally, airports, and so I doubt that we will see much investment at a federal level in these aspects of infrastructure in the near future."(...) 
On est pas forcément très loin de la fable des "Mange-bitume".