Neighborhood and Injunction for Togetherness: Relational Analysis
This article questions the neighborhood relationship from the analysis of the figure of the neighbor in popular culture (sayings, literature, comic strip...). It is commonly considered as a pejorative figure, but this is globally contradicted by actual interviews (storytelling), much more positive, collected during semi-directive qualitative enquiries about spatial and social relationship to the environment of individuals. It emerges from it that the neighborhood relationship has three major dimensions: spatiality, temporality, and potentiality. By living nearby, the neighbor is potentially harmful or useful. By this simple potentiality, the neighborhood relationship makes the individual not exactly as he should be, as a result of the closeness of the neighbor, and the neighborhood relationship as a combination of spatiality/temporality/potentiality. The aim of this article is to propose a definition of the concept of relation.