Territorial passions

There is a gap in the analysis of local public action: the question of the territorial passions that feed it never appears as a determining criterion. However, municipal councils and inter-municipal assemblies are a privileged theatre where emotions, desires and tears are expressed. Little account is taken of this emotional charge. Analyses focus on the way in which leaders exercise their “profession” as local elected representatives by playing on emotions and using them to establish their power. In this article, the author wanted to take a step aside by turning the mirror around and deciphering this emotional density based on the feelings of elected officials.