ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the 'political' world in which activists live. The politics in which they engage is multifaceted, complex and understood and enacted in diverse ways. The Larzac is, first of all, a political space. It is a place and symbol of resistance. The struggle against the military camp extension in the 1970s marked the Larzac out as somewhere special. The political is an attitude, a moral orientation, a felt obligation to act in the interests of the public good and in accordance with one's ideals. To act politically is to act consciously and critically as a 'citizen' and an 'individual'. On the level of the 'collectivity', the political involves a particular type of organization that is enacted in meetings, associations and the activist network. The political emerges with greatest force, however, as the autonomous collective actor of demonstrations, gatherings and media representations.
