Espaces arc-en-ciel

Identités et territoires en Afrique du Sud et en Inde

Philippe GERVAIS-LAMBONY, Frédéric LANDY et Sophie OLDFIELD (éds), 2003, Nanterre, Géotropiques; Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS
ISBN : 2-84586-430-2
Coll. Hommes et sociétés; Collection directed by Jean Copans

[Book in French]

Processes linked to today’s globalisation phase have resulted in identity repositioning on every scale. How does this repositioning translate spatially? How is space used to reinforce and justify identity-related affiliation or, on the contrary, to mitigate it?

These are the many questions which this work tries to partly answer by comparing two major countries of the South: India and South Africa.

This work is the result of a research programme launched by the Laboratoire Géotropique (University of Paris X – Nanterre) and the French Institute of South Africa (Johannesburg). It brought together South African, Indian and French researchers, among whom geographers, sociologists, historians, demographers, anthropologists and political scientists.