Territoires en questions : pratiques des lieux, usages d'un mot

A comparison of social processes at three sites of theFrenchRhôneRiver subjected to ecological restoration

“…Following this 'boosting' local event ( Fig. 1), elected representatives had to better consider the views of municipalities, which expressed the objective to take back their 'territory' (that is, the local site seen as a social space; Alphandery & Bergues, 2004). Municipalities felt that their territory, and thereby a part of their identity, had been subjected to a kind of plundering.…”

Territory beyond the Anglophone Tradition

“…Historically, territoire broke into Francophone geography when cultural and symbolic dimensions were introduced in the concept following the growing interest for social and political geographers for concepts such as "power", "spatial control", "differentiation", "domination" and "social appropriation" (Alphandéry and Bergues 2004;Claval 1996, 96;Debarbieux 2003, 38). The emphasis on territoire corresponds to the claim of geography to belong to social sciences and to take distance from a naturalist or mathematic conception of geography (Douillet 2003, 215).…”

“…These two tendencies are also distinguished by Alphandéry and Bergues (2004): a territory stemming from the maillage historique (traditional grid) on the one hand and, on the other, a territory taking different forms in space, which is produced and transformed by people and groups of people. The latter approach is a more diffused and less institutionalized way of conceiving territoire and it covers the idea that a territoire, insofar as it is such, has to be appropriated by individuals or groups of individuals.…”

Educação E Políticas Sociais - Valores, Conceitos E Práticas

“…Neste sentido, as comunidades referem-se a territórios ao mesmo tempo que produzem territórios. Os territórios são construções sociais, remetendo para uma pluralidade de formas de apropriação do espaço habitado e para os lugares de vida em comum, onde se estabelecem laços de pertença, vizinhança e solidariedade (ALPHANDÉRY, 2004). Ligada à noção de território, a categoria de comunidade deverá ser pensada igualmente numa perspetiva ampla, de acordo com a sua dupla aceção, descritiva e avaliativa A aceção descritiva, que identifica a comunidade com a constituição de grupos ou de redes de pessoas unidas por com algo em  12…”