| Titre | Sociologie du territoire : alternatives au postmodernisme | |
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| Auteur | Alfredo Mela | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 8, avril-juin 1992 | |
| Page | 5-16 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Alfredo MELA, The sociology of territory: alternatives to postmodernism. The development of microelectronics and the globalization of the world economy during the 1980's have encouraged a process of reorganization of economic and social space. It is to their credit that sociology, geography and the other territorial sciences have been searching for new interpretations for these phenomena; nonetheless, because these interpretations frequently come under the sometimes uncontrolled influence of the theoretical propositions of postmodernism, they have unilaterally stressed two hypotheses: a growing indifference about where economic activities are located, and the déstructuration of spatial forms as a result. This article would like to critique these assertions, by affirming that the transformations which occur always presuppose changes in the principles of spatial organization of economic activities, although this does not necessarily lead to a sidestepping of territorial hierarchy. Indeed, the tendancy toward either distribution or concentration are combined and regroup into complex structures, whose aspects are frequently contradictory. At the same time, the phenomenon which we are observing at present is not necessarily the "deconstruction" of traditional spatial forms of the "areolar" type, but rather the introduction of new forms, "discontinuous" and fuzzy, along with these forms, the interpretation of which poses a very interesting challenge for the territorial sciences. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/flux_1154-2721_1992_num_8_8_922 |
