| Titre | La géographie rurale en crise? | |
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| Auteur | Gilles Sautter | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 103-104, 1986 Droit et paysans | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | La géographie rurale : un bilan |
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| Page | 259-274 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Is There a Crisis in Rural Geography ?
This article deals with the present state of rural studies in French geography. Between World War I and II, the situation was clear: rural geography was an actually delimited field of knowledge in which a limited number of major problems were approached. Since thirty years, it seems that the very subject matter of rural geography is difficult to sketch precisely. For many reasons, the "rural" is to be seen as a still living scope of studies and even of great promise. Nevertheless what was then an autonomous object of research changed into a wide opened perspective. Most rural studies have become thematically oriented and they deal with so many various matters that their unity stands as problematical. The limits between rural geography and other branches of knowledge, such as agronomy for instance, appear as blurred. What do study rural geographers in developing countries is no more different of what they study in France itself. In both cases, they do pioneer work but they fail to organize properly their field of studies. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1986_num_103_1_3167 |
