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Territoire d’Europe, regards d’européensEuropean territory vs European regards

Dr François Moullé, Artois University (Fr.)Dr Sylvie Condette, Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3 University (Fr.)Jean Perlein, Artois University (Fr.)

Colloque : Europe seen from here and Elsewhere1-2 December 2011, Rouen

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1.SHARP projectSHARP (a platform for SHAre and RePresenting) is a specific research narrowly linked with action : « a kind of research wherein you can find a willful action to change reality ; There is a binary objective : transform reality and build knowledge upon those transformations » (Hugon et Seibel, 1988, p.13)

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SHARP’s Partners

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The programme objectives(2009-2013)

• Create and test a pedagogical Kit for education trainers/teachers through Europe

• Propose a training session for the next Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP)

• Offer a website to share European knowledge on education issues

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2. Identity meetings:

A methodology to analyse a territory

Methodology used in October 2010 and March 2011

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Methodology (1)• Confrontation of theoretical and conceptual

approaches : on territory, identity, empowerment, « glocalisation »

• Presentation of the interview guide (DYRTproduction)

• Video tool for interviews

• History of the Pas-de-Calais mining area (North of France)

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A specific territory:The mining area

SALLAUMINES

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Methodology (2)• Panorama of the territory from the Vimy site

• Route in Sallaumines and visit of various places

• Interviews:

– Diversity of origins : natives, Polish, Slovene, Portuguese, Italian, Moroccan

– Diversity of status : former miners, miners' wives, miners' sons, elected members, voluntaries in people's education …

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Methodology (3)• Workshops for the trainees :

– Discussions and debriefing

–Work on the interviews

– Video editing with the trainees' conclusions

• Analysis of the documentary corpus

• Dissemination of results

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3. The various European regards point out the diversity of European

territories

• One example of analysed material

• The main results

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Main remarks from the interviewed people• They were quite surprised with our survey laying on

theirs lives (complex of an area deeply touched by economic crisis)

• The affirmation of a French identity (major role of the French Republican school system)

• Their origins are just hinted at : through cooking, music; but the native language is rarely mastered

• The native country : is mostly unknown (but why not visiting it as a tourist)

• Deep link with the mining area, and its social life

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Main remarks from the trainees

• They were surprised with the attachment to national identity

• ...and also with the distance to the native countries

• They share a real attachment to the mining area even if work is scarce

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• The main paradox :

– The majority of these people is born of immigration

– The local history, the strength of social bounds, assistantship (…) produced a strong attachment to that territory (settled way of life)

• The attachment to a territory which is not very attractive

(because of the landscape, of huge unemployment...) seems to be not important

• Those people seem to be far from a mondialised logic

• Questioning of the specific term of « glocalisation »

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Major questions

• Can we imagine a European citizenship which could respect and promote strong territory bounds?

= This is a major issue in the SHARP programme

• Are interculturality, and progressive recognition of alterity, strong enough to territorialize Europe?

• Can we characterized Europe by a juxtaposition of specific territories?

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Conclusion• Our research was built on a self-training belonging to

an educative programme

• The trainees are mostly convinced Europeans (a bias to our analysis)

• The strength of the meeting revealed identity and territory differences

• The mixing of European nations is not enough to create a European identity

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