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English Summary
Strong Networks and Loose Spaces, Decision-makers and CitizensThe Territories of the GlobalisationAt the invitation of the French National Commission for UNESCO, an international meeting was held in Paris on 11 and 12 September 1995, for identifying tools and fields of investigation with reference to theme III of the MOST Programme : Coping locally and regionally with economic, technological and environmental transformations.The present report summarizes the contributions of the speakers who have presented case-studies focused on Angola, China and Eastern Asia, India, Madagascar, Russia and Tunisia, as well as on the post-industrial societies. It incorporates the main points of the debates, identifies the fields which would deserve additional attention, and underlines the main provisional conclusions which can be drawn from the meeting. A consensus emerged that the simple linear determinations paradigm is definitely not operative, and that the dialectics between the global and the local is to be acknowledged. The globalisation process draws a new map of the world which transcends the established state boundaries more than ever. This does not imply however that territories are no more a reality, nor that the state is becoming obsolete. The negative impact of globalisation upon local societies duly considered, it appears however that the scope for local initiative must not be underestimated, provided that local development strategies make the best of local culture without blindly following uniform models, and that new configurations emerge between an efficient state and an active civil society. The global predominates upon the local, but in a way the global is also the local, a local which has today new tools for being heard at a great distance. Globalisation is perhaps the latest form of modern imperialism, but this form offers new opportunities for local action and reaction. In such a context, research must draw the attention of the decision-makers to the real local impact of the globalisation dynamics. It must draw them out from the << virtual hypercentre >> connecting the powerful minorities between themselves, to the fields and the cities where the common man lives with hope or in despair. It is with the contrasting new world map in mind, and with the urge to build new citizenries everywhere that priority must be given to identify the principles upon which a new world contract might be established for the next century, a new social contract making room for the Enlightenment heritage and for multiculturalism, which both set the values of the world as it moves.
French SummaryA l'initiative de la Commission française pour l'UNESCO, et avec la participation du Ministère français de l'enseignement supérieur et de la rechrche et de la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme se sont déroulées à Paris deux journées de réflexion visant à éclairer les problématiques soulevées par le thème III du programme MOST de l'UNESCO : la gestion locale et régionale des transformations économiques, technologiques et environnementales.Aux côtés d'universitaires français spécialisés dans diverses aires culturelles ou dans l'interface pouvoirs/territoires/développement se sont retrouvés des invités venus de Danemark, des Pays-Bas, de Russie, de Tunisie, d'Angola, de la République malgache, et d'Inde. La Commission des Communautés européennes et le Conseil international des sciences sociales étaient représentés, ainsi que le Secteur des Sciences Sociales et Humaines de l'UNESCO. Ci-dessous un compte-rendu de cette rencontre a été donné, dont la teneur et les commentaires n'engagent que la seule responsabilité de l'auteur.
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