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Dwelling through Building and Building through Dwelling: The Socio-Spatial Practices of Notre-Dame-des-Landes

par De Clerck, Philippe
Editeur scientifique Ledent, Gérald;Vanneste, Damien;Salembier, Chloé
Référence Sustainable Dwelling, Between Spatial Polyvalence and Residents' Empowerment, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Ed. 1, page (89-110)
Publication Publié, 2020-01-23

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Since 2009, in Notre-Dame-des-Landes near Nantes, France, a gathering of anti-globalist and anti-capitalist militants have occupied the site for a projected metropolitan airport, renaming it ‘Zone à Défendre’ (ZAD). Having managed to maintain long-term occupation of the site, the occupiers have gradually been able to move beyond a practice of resistance, in order to develop practices of dwelling and commoning in an intense dialogue with the history and natural characteristics of the site they occupy. Though the ZAD of NDDL has been quite extensively studied as an innovative practice of political opposition, much less has been written about the practices of everyday life in the ZAD. This article will therefore attempt to highlight these practices and how they pertain to a radical interpretation of ‘sustainability’ in its ecological, economic and social dimensions. We will identify elements on various scales of everyday life in the ZAD and determine how they articulate territory, ecology and participation, in order to portray and assess the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes not only as a symbolic place of resistance to a commodification of the territory, but also as a birthplace of ways of life profoundly symbiotic with the territory both culturally and ecologically.