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From "industrial districts" to "proximity": critic analysys of communication beyond spatial metaphot ?
[Des "districts industriels" à la "proximité" : l’analyse critique de la communication au-delà de la métaphore spatiale ?]

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  • Olivier Klein

    (LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

This paper considers the evolutions of contemporary Regional Science as a tendency to take in account the social dimension of economic coordination phenomenon. Initially, the concept of industrial district was based on very homogeneous spatialized communities. Paradoxically, the generalization was made with a weakening of the social content of notion of territory. Then, the notion of proximity is presented. It aims to reject the normative representation of territory as matrix of every social construction. However, proximity is only a spatial metaphor, with some risks to analyse social facts. Endly, to consider economic coordination as to differentiation process is proposed in order to draw a parallel with the critic analyses of communication.

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  • Olivier Klein, 2000. "From "industrial districts" to "proximity": critic analysys of communication beyond spatial metaphot ? [Des "districts industriels" à la "proximité" : l’anal," Post-Print halshs-01412727, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01412727
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