Mobilisation de la société civile contre la localisation d’industries de l’économie créative : les conflits pour la re-politisation des territoires
This article proposes to characterize the forms of conflict that oppose, particularly since 2018 in France, citizen and activist collectives to projects for the location of industrial activities in the economic sectors of digital platforms and leisure complexes. We situate these projects within the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes
2022-03-01
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| Series: | L'Espace Politique |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/9740 |
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| Summary: | This article proposes to characterize the forms of conflict that oppose, particularly since 2018 in France, citizen and activist collectives to projects for the location of industrial activities in the economic sectors of digital platforms and leisure complexes. We situate these projects within the framework of private and public territorial development strategies conceived according to the paradigm of the creative economy. We have identified fifteen contemporary conflicts on the national territory related to construction projects of logistic sites for e-commerce or leisure complexes presented as having a cultural and creative dimension. We articulated a socio semiotic analysis of a corpus of press articles and institutional communiqués related to these conflicts with the realization of about thirty interviews with the local actors concerned. We will first show that these conflicts consist of an opposition between different perceptions and conceptions of spaces, at different scales; as such, they are part of a local geopolitics for the control of territories. Beyond local singularities, these phenomena have in common that they confront a set of practices established within public and private institutions with other paradigms of socio-economic development of the territories, claimed by the opponents of these projects. These conflicts concern both values and beliefs that opponents consider “outdated” or incompatible with the major contemporary societal issues (environment, social inequalities, taxation) and the very methods of managing public decisions. To a logic of the Public/Private contract, often covered by secrecy and which tends to invisibilize local socio-economic specificities for the benefit of a global harmonization, is thus opposed a process of construction of common goods, which rests on the articulation of multiple spatial scales. After having characterized the forms of organization and action of the actors concerned by these conflicts, we propose a model of these multiscalar politicization phenomena based on locally anchored contestations. |
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| ISSN: | 1958-5500 |