La métropole en enquête: action collective et circulation des savoirs dans les réseaux contestataires de l'aménagement urbain

Abstract. Urban project opposition movements have proliferated in recent decades. The recent emergence of the term «metropolis» in common French discourse has contributed to networking these experiences and formalizing spaces for the circulation and sharing of knowledge among contesting actors, according to specific collective learning processes. In this article, we observe that the notions of «metropolis» and «metropolization», due to their complexity and their capacity to encompass diverse urban issues, drive actors seeking to understand them to engage in investigative approaches, following a logical analysis from disturbances to the formation of public problems. However, we will also demonstrate how these processes tend to become elements of the contemporary repertoire, as they are employed to describe epistemic practices formalized by actors as modes of action, structuring the organization of groups. This article aims to describe these activities through a multi-sited investigation, comparing Grenoble-based collectives mobilized and gathered around this scale.