Identités et territoires  : des rapports accentués en milieu urbain  ?

Abstract

Individual or collective identities are social phenomena, mostly plural. From human subject to territory, they form a continuum. Most of them display a geographical component, a spatiality reinforcing and underlining them. Therefore, hey often appear through socio-spatial mediations, such as places, territories, landscapes…These of cities are particularly full of sens. In return, the identities actively contribute to those social constructions of spaces and geographical devices, either real or perceptible. Spatial forms of identity, identity dimensions of spaces interact according to a subtle dialectic. They appear in social representations by the means of symbolic schemes associating objects, places, works of art, characters and patrimonial events. As a social construction, identity has an undeniable ideological and cultural dimension ; but it is also a fundamental structure of the human element and a very important political tool.

Keywords

• city
• culture
• identity
• ideology
• individual
• place