Paris 19:Doing politics differently
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Next week, by about the same time some of us may wake up with the hangover, after the first round of the presidential elections. Will I be one of those? Who knows? I am not sure yet who I am going to vote for. Not that I am the type of guy who never votes but rather I sometimes have the feeling that my concerns are very often ignored by the politicians.
I know that I am not the only one who thinks this way. I even know that compared to most of my friends, not only in the neighborhood but also those living in the “Bobo” districts of Paris, I am more interested in politics. As a matter of fact, I would even say, I have always been doing politics but in a different manner.
For example, on Thursday with some French and British colleagues, I am organizing a discussion around the housing issue in the 19th district of Paris. The initiative is part of the Paris 19th project: a photography project we started in 2010.
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Three days before the first round of the presidential elections this year, we decide to organize a similar meeting in the place where the whole project started months ago. At number 07 rue Mathis (75019 Paris) on Thursday 19th April, at 07 pm, we will be holding an event that could be the last opportunity for some elected politicians of the district to clarify their position on some of the issues affecting the everyday life of many inhabitants in the district, just before the elections. The questions we are planning to raise or discuss on involve, among others, the notion of social cohesion in the neighbourhood, gentrification, and access to Social housing for people who were born and grew up in the district. As a matter of fact, it appears, according to our investigation, that people who were born in the 19th district of Paris, and whose parents most often still live there, find it difficult to obtain apartments within the district. Is it a lack of knowledge of the required administrative procedure or because of the skyrocketing prices in housing that forces those with the lowest revenues to find accommodation outside the capital city? Are there some alternatives for younger people?
These are questions to which we hope to find answers or suggestions through the discussion. If national politics often appears as remote, not to say irrelevant to most people living in the 19th district of Paris, let’s hope that this way of doing politics will reconcile some with their
political representatives.
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The event is part of the ongoing project, Paris 19: Mobility, Memory & Migration: (http://www.openvizor.com/Content/Index/472 )
Paris 19: Mobility, Memory & Migration is collaboration between Abbas Nokhasteh (Openvizor), Dr. Moustafa Traoré (AnOpen Eye), David Kendall (CUCR, Goldsmiths, University of London), Bakary Sakho (BGA) and filmmaker Andrés Borda-González.