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Becoming Accomplices. Queer Commoning and molecular transformations: the example of CLAQ collective in Paris

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Based on an engaged ethnography with a queer collective, this article explores the recent popular uprising events in Paris and how the presence of marginal and minority groups and subjectivities represented an opportunity for recomposition of movements and struggles for social transformation. Starting from the participation in the struggles of the Yellow Vests between 2018 and 2019 and the strikes against retirement reform between 2019 and 2020 of a queer collective called CLAQ, this article analyzes two processes characterizing it. Following the anthropologist Ida Susser (2017), on the one hand, I will show the commoning co-created in the practices (assemblies, demonstrations, direct actions, etc.) of this queer collective with other complicit groups (the Yellow Vests, the unionized strikers, the ecologists, etc.). This commoning is understood as a new form of protest and production of a common culture between groups hitherto separated and divided by distinct identity and historical specificities. On the other hand, I will show how the specifically queer politics of CLAQ collective represent instead a potential for molecular revolution which, following Félix Guattari and Toni Negri (1990), "appears every time that processes of detotalization and of deterritorialization encroach on the stratification of corporatism" (p. 125) and of identity. The concomitant emergence of commoning and molecular revolution practices responds to the need to find new forms of alliances and political strategies in the face of, and starting from, the disintegrating force of neoliberal policies generating a very great precarity in the workforce and specifically in the material living conditions of gender and sexual minorities. The commoning and the molecular strategies of struggle could represent the need to create, from new and unexplored political experiences, other conceptions of power and politics, perhaps less comfortable and safe, but more promising of social transformations and social justice.
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hal-03918429 , version 1 (02-01-2023)

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Gianfranco Rebucini. Becoming Accomplices. Queer Commoning and molecular transformations: the example of CLAQ collective in Paris. Silvia Posocco, E. J. Gonzalez-Polledo. Queer Futures Beyond Crises, Berghahn Books, In press, EASA Series - (ENQA). ⟨hal-03918429⟩

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