Dans le cadre du séminaire du projet de recherche PAR-CITY, le GIS Démocratie et Participation a le plaisir d’accueillir Celina Su, professeure de science politique à la City University of New York et titulaire de la chaire Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies.
Elle présentera son ouvrage Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities (Princeton University Press, 2025), lors d’une conférence organisée le mardi 14 octobre 2025, de 18h à 20h, en salle panoramique de la MSH Paris Nord.
La présentation donnera lieu à une discussion menée par Marion Lang (TRIANGLE, projet PAR-CITY) et Thomas Chevallier (CERAPS, Université de Lille).
👉 Entrée libre, conférence en anglais.
Présentation de l’ouvrage :
Amid political repression and a deepening affordability crisis, Budget Justice challenges everything you thought you knew about “dull” and daunting government budgets. It shows how the latter confuse and mislead the public by design, not accident. Arguing that they are moral documents that demand grassroots participation to truly work for everyone, the book reveals how everyday citizens can shape policy to tackle everything from rising housing and food costs to unabated police violence, underfunded schools, and climate change–driven floods and wildfires. Drawing on her years of engagement with democratic governance in New York City and around the globe, Celina Su proposes a new kind of democracy—in which city residents make collective decisions about public needs through processes like participatory budgeting, and in which they work across racial divides and segregated spaces as neighbors rather than as consumers or members of voting blocs. Su presents a series of “interludes” that vividly illustrate how budget justice plays out on the ground, including in-depth interviews with activists from Porto Alegre, Brazil, Barcelona, Spain, and Jackson, Mississippi, and shares her own personal reflections on how changing social identities inform one’s activism. Essential reading to empower citizens, Budget Justice explains why public budgets reflect a crisis not so much in accounting as in democracy, and enables everyone, especially those from historically marginalized communities, to imagine and enact people’s budgets and policies—from universal preschool to affordable housing—that will enable their communities to thrive.
ℹ️ Plus d’infos sur l’ouvrage : lien Princeton University Press
ℹ️ Sur le projet PAR-CITY : https://parcity.org/