L'architectonique processuelle de la condition territoriale de l'être humain – Esquisse d'une conceptualisation des territorialisation, déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation

Abstract

Geographers generally use the notion of territorialization to evoke or reflect on the process by which human beings relate to the world and take their place in it on the basis of the territory they create or seek out. They use the related notions of deterritorialization and reterritorialization to evoke or reflect on the problems of territorial neglect or carelessness, and to criticize its causes and consequences. However, when we refer to one or other of these three processes, little or nothing is said about their articulation as a triptych indissociable from our territorial doing, and therefore about territorialization as a global process inherent to our territorial condition, and then about the territorialities that these three specific processes express, mobilize, and nourish. In order to remedy this situation to some extent, this article proposes a conceptualization of their particularities and correlations, and more specifically of their consequences. By thus seeking to embrace and systematize the processual field within which human beings think, say, and do territory, we are attempting to better understand and manage the relationships between human beings and territory.