Issue |
Nat. Sci. Soc.
Volume 30, Number 1, Janvier/Mars 2022
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Page(s) | 58 - 71 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/nss/2022019 | |
Published online | 05 August 2022 |
Les expériences du « local ». Variations et tensions autour de l’alimentation locale dans la région marseillaise
Experiences with the notion of ‘local’: Variations and tensions around local food in the Marseille region
1
Urbanisme et géographie, Université d’Aix-Marseille, UMR TELEMME, Aix-en-Provence, France
2
Géographie, Université de Lyon, École urbaine de Lyon, Laboratoire d’études rurales, Lyon, France
3
Anthropologie, EHESS, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille, France
* Auteur correspondant: valeria.siniscalchi@ehess.fr
Reçu :
6
Février
2019
Accepté :
27
Septembre
2021
Cet article explore les variations de la notion de « local » à partir des pratiques et des discours d’acteurs divers impliqués dans des projets portant sur l’agriculture et l’alimentation. En suivant les divers modes de représentation du local – des discours des acteurs aux textes d’urbanisme – et les pratiques qui les mettent en œuvre, les auteurs (une anthropologue, un géographe et un urbaniste) interrogent la variabilité de cette notion afin d’analyser la manière dont elle est appropriée et reconfigurée en fonction des arènes dans lesquelles elle est mobilisée. Ce texte vise également à réfléchir aux limites et aux apports d’une approche pluridisciplinaire de ces questions : le pari est de montrer que la somme de ces trois approches permet de voir des éléments nouveaux qui n’émergeraient pas de chaque analyse individuelle.
Abstract
This paper questions the notion of ‘local’ as applied to food provisioning and its social, spatial and political dimensions. The aim is to understand how the different actors involved in local and ‘localized’ food circuits think, use and apply this notion. By following the diverse representations of locality – from the actors’ discourses to urban planning texts – and the practices that implement them, the authors (an anthropologist, a geographer and an urban planner) examine the variability of this notion in order to analyze the way it is appropriated and reconfigured according to the arena in which it is mobilized. This text also aims to reflect on the limits and contributions of a multidisciplinary approach to these issues. The challenge is to show that the summing of these three approaches brings out new elements that do not emerge from each individual analysis. The notion of ‘local’ is part of an administrative, spatial and ideological reality that is being constantly recomposed according to political, social and economic processes. Questioning this notion by involving three dimensions and three disciplines, enables our reflection to avoid the impasses of scientific literature in which the meaning of what is local seems to be self-evident while remaining fixed in specific disciplinary frameworks, and to show its shifting nature.
Mots clés : agriculture / territoire / local / alimentation / interdisciplinarité
Key words: agriculture / territory / local / food / interdisciplinarity
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