| Project Detail |
The field survey, conducted on two sites in Valais (Entremont and Zermatt) and two sites in Spain (Val dAran and Basse-Cerdagne), aims to reveal how different subjects can negotiate their identity as local. Historical, as well as global subject, mobile and traveler. From four ethnographic situations in mountain areas, it is a question of questioning the social practices that daily shape these places and their inhabitants. How do several categories of residents (international, national, local, fixed, temporary and multi-local) - relate, practice and produce the place? In return, how does the place affect their relationships? This project inscribes the production of the locality, understood as a phenomenological property of social life, within the framework of a dialectic of relations and cultural innovations, of (re) social production between the local and the global. The comparative and multi-situated anthropological approach makes it possible to take into account concrete practices of construction and reproduction of the locality in the Swiss Alps and the Spanish Pyrenees and thus to identify tendencies on a larger scale, in particular European scale. Biographical interviews and observations of key situations will help to identify the socio-political issues related to ongoing transformations and inform local and national governments |
