A presente investigação traz para a discussão a dinâmica das cooperativas agropecuárias do Rio Grande do Sul e seu papel com o desenvolvimento socioeconômico dos locais onde atuam. Este trabalho tem como propósito principal analisar a atuação das cooperativas agropecuárias no Planalto gaúcho e sua relação com a cadeia produtiva da soja, verificando a continuidade da atividade delas, no recorte espacial estudado. Para compreender a dinâmica do cooperativismo agropecuário, a pesquisa foi estruturada tendo por base os seguintes objetivos: a) estudar a evolução da atividade cooperativa agropecuária no Rio Grande do Sul e sua continuidade no contexto atual; b) investigar as mudanças na atividade cooperativa do Planalto gaúcho após a inserção do agronegócio da soja; c) averiguar o ponto de inflexão da atividade cooperativa considerando os aspectos políticos e econômicos no Rio Grande do Sul; d) analisar as transformações socioeconômicas e espaciais ocorridas no Planalto gaúcho e qual o papel das cooperativas agropecuárias na estruturação da cadeia produtiva da soja, como a modernização agrícola, a infraestrutura e a comercialização. A escolha em desenvolver a pesquisa nessa região do RS deveu-se a três fatores: a) pela expressiva área destinada à lavoura de soja e por estar localizada nessa parte do estado; b) por ser a parte do RS em que é expressiva a atuação socioeconômica das cooperativas agropecuárias; c) pelo cooperativismo agropecuário ter surgido no Planalto gaúcho. A pesquisa fornece informações que fundamentam as hipóteses de que as cooperativas agropecuárias são os principais responsáveis por fornecer suporte ao desenvolvimento da cadeia produtiva da soja no planalto do Rio Grande do Sul e por apresentarem capacidade de armazenamento e garantirem os negócios da produção agrícola para seus associados. Além disso, a pesquisa confirma que na década de 1970 iniciaram-se as crises no cooperativismo agropecuário gaúcho, entretanto, foi na década de 1980 que essa atividade passou a desestruturar-se economicamente pela abertura ao mercado externo, favorecida pela globalização. Essa nova situação forçou as cooperativas agropecuárias a reorganizarem a forma de gerenciar e conduzirem a atividade frente à nova dinâmica do mercado. As cooperativas agropecuárias conquistaram seu espaço e reconhecimento de seu papel na cadeia produtiva da soja. Constatou-se que o cooperativismo agropecuário gaúcho se encontra em período de redefinição e retomada da atividade, após ter superado o período de maior instabilidade e endividamento nas décadas de 80 e 90. Além disso, as cooperativas agropecuárias fazem a intermediação entre as atividades desenvolvidas no espaço urbano e rural, sendo esse tipo de cooperativa considerada um indicador de desenvolvimento socioeconômico. / The present investigation discusses the dynamics of agricultural cooperatives from Rio Grande do Sul and their role in relation to the socioeconomic development of the locations they function. This paper aims mainly at analyzing the performance of agricultural cooperatives at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau and its relation with soy production chain, verifying the continuity of their activities at the region selected. In order to understand the dynamics of agricultural cooperativism, the research was structured based on the following objectives: a) to study the evolution of agricultural cooperative activity in Rio Grande do Sul and its continuity in the current context; b) to investigate changes in the cooperative activity from Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau after soy agribusiness insertion; c) to determine the inflection point of cooperative activity considering political and economic aspects in Rio Grande do Sul; d) to analyze socioeconomic and spatial transformations occurred at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau and what role agricultural cooperatives play at the soy production chain structure, such as agricultural modernization, infrastructure and marketing. The choice of developing the research at this region of RS was due to three reasons: a) the vast area designated to soy farming and its localization at this part of the state; b) it is the region of RS in which the socioeconomic performance of agricultural cooperatives is significant; c) the agricultural cooperativism arose at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau. The research provides information that bases the hypotheses that agricultural cooperatives are mainly responsible for providing support for the soy production chain development at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau and that they present storage capacity and guarantee their associates agricultural production businesses. Besides, the research confirms that crises emerged in the RS agricultural cooperativism in the 1970’s, however, in the 1980’s this activity began to disassemble economically because its opening to external market, favored by globalization. This new situation forced agricultural cooperatives to reorganize the way of managing and conducting the activity in the face of the new market dynamics. Agricultural cooperatives conquered their space and acknowledgement for their role in soy production chain. We noted that RS agricultural cooperativism is in a redefinition and activity resumption phase, after having overcome the biggest instability and debt period in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Furthermore, agricultural cooperatives intermediate activities developed in urban and rural areas, and this kind of cooperative is considered a socioeconomic development sign.

Se investigan los procesos de transformación de la caza en España desde el Antiguo Régimen al siglo XX, pasando de recurso complementario para las economías rurales a destacable actividad recreativa. Se analizan las características de la caza antes del siglo XIX: diferencia caza aristocrática y plebeya, doble consideración de los animales salvajes (útiles y dañinos). Se estudia la redefinición de la caza durante el siglo XIX: lucha por la propiedad del recurso, paso del cazador de oficio al "sportman", nacimiento del asociacionismo, inicio de la protección de los animales y permanencia del control rural de las "alimañas". Se demuestra la consolidación de la caza como deporte urbano en el siglo XX: transformaciones legales y administrativas, mutación del tipo de cazador, estatalización del asociacionismo, diferente consideración de los animales dañinos y repoblaciones cinegéticas. Todo para colmar aspiraciones y necesidades de una población urbana progresivamente masificada y alejada de la naturaleza. / The hunting change processes in Spain from the Ancient Regime to the XXth century had been analyzed from perspective of purpose transformation: first like a complementary resource for rural economies and after a important leisure activity.The hunting characteristics before XIXth century are analyzed in a double consideration; aristocratic and plebeian hunt, underlying the double thought that wild animals deserve (useful and harmful). This century includes the redefinition of the game, the conflict for the property of the resource, the steps from the professional huntsman to the "sportman", the beginning of the associationism, the start of wildlife protectionism and the persistence of the rural control of the vermin.This processes led to the consolidation of the game as XXth century urban sport gradually kept away from Nature. There was legal and administrative changes and so the type of hunter. The associationism was controlled by the Spanish State, the vermin is different considered and the hunting is restocking.

The aim of this thesis is to study the intersection of rural areas, ageing and care. It is  based on interviews with elderly and caregivers carried out in the municipality of Heby in the middle of Sweden. Care is given a broad definition and includes help with many daily activities given by family members, the public sector, the private sector, voluntary organisations and neighbours. The studied rural area is described as filled with care, as there exist people with care needs and caregivers from several sectors. Together the elderly and their caregivers create a landscape of care which they strive to describe as characterized by mutual dependency and carefulness, as well as created between formal and informal relationships. The different care givers are dependent on, complement and sometimes exclude each other. With an increasing trend with ageing in place, the own home is becoming more Important for the rural aged. This creates special careneeds, and reshapes the home physically and gives it and the local community a specific meaning. The own home and its surroundings are seen as consisting of physical features, social relationships and memories of the lived life. The own home is both seen as a place where the elderly can be independent and as a place where they are dependent, which defines the home as a contradictory place. The study wants to contribute to a more developed theoretical understanding of the rural with an age and care perspective. Above all it is stressed that the rural is filled with care relations. Also it is stated that the elderly live in a constantly changing rural society and that the rural is placed between a material and social understanding respectively between the concepts of periphery and center.

School geography has been identified as the one subject which has the most potential to develop pupils' ability to identify with their community and with their environment. Through the development of a sense of place pupils are encouraged to become effective perceivers, users, appreciators, evaluators and developers of their environment (Catling 1987. This approach to the teaching of geography implies that the content and the teaching strategies need to be perceived as relevant. Relevance in this study is taken to incorporate not only the needs of the pupils and the community but also of the subject. The location of this study in Venda, an area which is predominantly rural in nature sought to emphasise the important role which rural settlement geography can play in aiding the development of these pupils' sense of place and social identity. The research therefore concentrated on the approaches and teaching strategies used in the teaching of rural settlement in Venda secondary schools. This was achieved through a survey which involved geography teachers and pupils in the Thohoyandou inspection area. The place of rural settlement in the current geography curriculum was established through an analysis of the relevant syllabuses, textbooks and senior certificate examination papers. This analysis was primarily undertaken to illuminate the extent to which rural settlement geography in the South African curriculum complies with accepted criteria for relevance. The study revealed that the teaching of rural settlement in Venda is textbook-related and teacher- directed with no attempt to capitalise upon the pupils' experience of their rural environment. This was largely ascribed to the constraints of the syllabus and the demands of the examination system. When allied to the problems teachers have concerning syllabus development, the validity and relevance of this aspect of the syllabus is reduced. More importantly, because the local environment is not perceived as having value in the teaching of geography, the Venda pupils' perception of the value of their environment is diminished.

A presente investigação traz para a discussão a dinâmica das cooperativas agropecuárias do Rio Grande do Sul e seu papel com o desenvolvimento socioeconômico dos locais onde atuam. Este trabalho tem como propósito principal analisar a atuação das cooperativas agropecuárias no Planalto gaúcho e sua relação com a cadeia produtiva da soja, verificando a continuidade da atividade delas, no recorte espacial estudado. Para compreender a dinâmica do cooperativismo agropecuário, a pesquisa foi estruturada tendo por base os seguintes objetivos: a) estudar a evolução da atividade cooperativa agropecuária no Rio Grande do Sul e sua continuidade no contexto atual; b) investigar as mudanças na atividade cooperativa do Planalto gaúcho após a inserção do agronegócio da soja; c) averiguar o ponto de inflexão da atividade cooperativa considerando os aspectos políticos e econômicos no Rio Grande do Sul; d) analisar as transformações socioeconômicas e espaciais ocorridas no Planalto gaúcho e qual o papel das cooperativas agropecuárias na estruturação da cadeia produtiva da soja, como a modernização agrícola, a infraestrutura e a comercialização. A escolha em desenvolver a pesquisa nessa região do RS deveu-se a três fatores: a) pela expressiva área destinada à lavoura de soja e por estar localizada nessa parte do estado; b) por ser a parte do RS em que é expressiva a atuação socioeconômica das cooperativas agropecuárias; c) pelo cooperativismo agropecuário ter surgido no Planalto gaúcho. A pesquisa fornece informações que fundamentam as hipóteses de que as cooperativas agropecuárias são os principais responsáveis por fornecer suporte ao desenvolvimento da cadeia produtiva da soja no planalto do Rio Grande do Sul e por apresentarem capacidade de armazenamento e garantirem os negócios da produção agrícola para seus associados. Além disso, a pesquisa confirma que na década de 1970 iniciaram-se as crises no cooperativismo agropecuário gaúcho, entretanto, foi na década de 1980 que essa atividade passou a desestruturar-se economicamente pela abertura ao mercado externo, favorecida pela globalização. Essa nova situação forçou as cooperativas agropecuárias a reorganizarem a forma de gerenciar e conduzirem a atividade frente à nova dinâmica do mercado. As cooperativas agropecuárias conquistaram seu espaço e reconhecimento de seu papel na cadeia produtiva da soja. Constatou-se que o cooperativismo agropecuário gaúcho se encontra em período de redefinição e retomada da atividade, após ter superado o período de maior instabilidade e endividamento nas décadas de 80 e 90. Além disso, as cooperativas agropecuárias fazem a intermediação entre as atividades desenvolvidas no espaço urbano e rural, sendo esse tipo de cooperativa considerada um indicador de desenvolvimento socioeconômico. / The present investigation discusses the dynamics of agricultural cooperatives from Rio Grande do Sul and their role in relation to the socioeconomic development of the locations they function. This paper aims mainly at analyzing the performance of agricultural cooperatives at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau and its relation with soy production chain, verifying the continuity of their activities at the region selected. In order to understand the dynamics of agricultural cooperativism, the research was structured based on the following objectives: a) to study the evolution of agricultural cooperative activity in Rio Grande do Sul and its continuity in the current context; b) to investigate changes in the cooperative activity from Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau after soy agribusiness insertion; c) to determine the inflection point of cooperative activity considering political and economic aspects in Rio Grande do Sul; d) to analyze socioeconomic and spatial transformations occurred at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau and what role agricultural cooperatives play at the soy production chain structure, such as agricultural modernization, infrastructure and marketing. The choice of developing the research at this region of RS was due to three reasons: a) the vast area designated to soy farming and its localization at this part of the state; b) it is the region of RS in which the socioeconomic performance of agricultural cooperatives is significant; c) the agricultural cooperativism arose at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau. The research provides information that bases the hypotheses that agricultural cooperatives are mainly responsible for providing support for the soy production chain development at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau and that they present storage capacity and guarantee their associates agricultural production businesses. Besides, the research confirms that crises emerged in the RS agricultural cooperativism in the 1970’s, however, in the 1980’s this activity began to disassemble economically because its opening to external market, favored by globalization. This new situation forced agricultural cooperatives to reorganize the way of managing and conducting the activity in the face of the new market dynamics. Agricultural cooperatives conquered their space and acknowledgement for their role in soy production chain. We noted that RS agricultural cooperativism is in a redefinition and activity resumption phase, after having overcome the biggest instability and debt period in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Furthermore, agricultural cooperatives intermediate activities developed in urban and rural areas, and this kind of cooperative is considered a socioeconomic development sign.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-10-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:36:25Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 melo_ts_me_rcla.pdf: 892391 bytes, checksum: 786acf12a6ff9f3d6348b429d22dc059 (MD5) / Este trabalho busca analisar as aproximações e distanciamentos entre duas formas específicas de uso e ocupação do espaço: o turismo e o assentamento de Reforma Agrária. Aderindo ao entendimento de que o território ocupa centralidade na Geografia, e assumindo a concepção classista desse conceito, a pesquisa traz referências contemporâneas que advogam e comprovam a atualidade do pensamento marxista, o que leva à formulação da necessidade da crítica marxista radical, doravante nomeada apenas como crítica. A partir desse suporte teórico-conceitual, os objetivos específicos são relacionar a expansão da territorialização do capital à pressão sobre os assentamentos de Reforma Agrária; problematizar sobre a atual matriz hegemônica de produção agrícola, o agronegócio; pensar o turismo como elemento constituinte, ou, no limite, fortalecedor de territorialidades camponesas ligadas a projetos de transformação social a partir dos assentamentos de Reforma Agrária; fazer uma análise dos trabalhos apresentados em todas as edições do Congresso Brasileiro de Turismo Rural – CBTR, para mensurar as pesquisas críticas sobre turismo no espaço rural; elaborar uma espacialização dos estudos sobre turismo no espaço rural. Para tanto, o estudo se apoia numa pesquisa bibliográfica de caráter exploratório, numa entrevista com o professor Ariovaldo Umbelino Oliveira, na leitura e análise de 332 textos publicados nos anais das sete edições do CBTR. Consolidada a análise dos textos, e articulada com as reflexões e informações da entrevista e do referencial teórico-conceitual, a pesquisa evidencia a escassez de estudos críticos, a concentração dos estudos sobre turismo no espaço rural na região sudeste do país, bem como uma adesão de grande parte destas pesquisas aos conceitos de agricultura familiar, novo rural... / This paper explores the similarities and differences between two specific forms of occupation and use of space: tourism and settlement of Agrarian Reform. Adhering to the understanding that the territory occupies centrality in Geography, and assuming the design class this concept, the research brings contemporary references that advocate and demonstrate the relevance of Marxist thought, which leads to the formulation of the need for radical Marxist critique, hereafter named only as critical. From this conceptual-theoretical support, the specific objectives are to relate the expansion of the territorial capital to pressure on the settlements of Agrarian Reform; problematize hegemonic matrix on the current agricultural production, agribusiness; think tourism as a constitutional, or, ultimately, strengthening of peasant territorialities linked to projects of social transformation from the settlements of Agrarian Reform; make an analysis of the papers presented in all editions of the Brazilian Congress of Rural Tourism - CBTR to measure the critical research on rural tourism ; develop a spatial studies on rural tourism. Therefore, the study is based on a literature search and exploratory, in an interview with Professor Ariovaldo Umbelino Oliveira, reading and analysis of 332 articles published in the Annals of the seven editions of CBTR. Consolidated analysis of texts, and combined with the ideas and information from the interview and the theoreticalconceptual, research shows that few critical studies, the concentration of studies on rural tourism in the southeast region of the country, as well as a membership much of this research the concepts of family agriculture, new rural and territorial development - in its liberal conception. Otherwise, we conclude that, as the settlement of Agrarian Reform is built as a space of... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Water scarcity and water contamination are persistent problems facing large numbers of people in India. In order to combat scarcity, the Indian Federal government designated 2016 to be the Year of Water Conservation. In order to prepare for the success of this initiative, different management strategies and awareness campaigns began in 2015. Critics have generally responded favourably to these shifts in water management because conservation is considered a benevolent and even environmentally-friendly, or “green” process that can successfully combat water scarcity. However, these initiatives often change the ways in which people access water based upon new governing mentalities. The governing mentality most strongly underpinning these initiatives is based on a neoliberal rationality, which is generally admonished by academics and activists due to the production of uneven socio-economic landscapes under neoliberal economics. Similarly, in an effort to combat water contamination, governing authorities have initiated programs and policies to ensure that safe water is provided for citizens. However, this too has often been influenced by neoliberal governing mentalities. In order to analyze these shifts, this dissertation takes a closer look at the narratives of water conservation, water scarcity, and water contamination using a political ecology framework in three states in North Western India: Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Haryana. The following manuscript style thesis consists of five independent papers, plus an introduction and conclusion, linked thematically through the discussion and analyses of the shifting nature of the hydro-social cycle under the pressure of various neoliberal reforms and processes initiated by federal and state governing authorities in North Western India. Having independent papers lends itself to a more nuanced discussion of the ways in which neoliberal water management strategies are lived-out in various communities. Neoliberalism is not an overarching hegemonic project or phenomenon, and as such the discourses of neoliberalism have had different consequences for different communities and populations. As such, this thesis highlights the ways in which the shifting hydro-social cycle has changed gender-related activities of water collection, the ways in which contamination is a form of slow violence, the ways in which defacto public-private partnerships operate in water scarce urban centres, and the ways in which discourses of conservation can be misleading and even manufactured. / Graduate / 2019-05-23

A presente investigação traz para a discussão a dinâmica das cooperativas agropecuárias do Rio Grande do Sul e seu papel com o desenvolvimento socioeconômico dos locais onde atuam. Este trabalho tem como propósito principal analisar a atuação das cooperativas agropecuárias no Planalto gaúcho e sua relação com a cadeia produtiva da soja, verificando a continuidade da atividade delas, no recorte espacial estudado. Para compreender a dinâmica do cooperativismo agropecuário, a pesquisa foi estruturada tendo por base os seguintes objetivos: a) estudar a evolução da atividade cooperativa agropecuária no Rio Grande do Sul e sua continuidade no contexto atual; b) investigar as mudanças na atividade cooperativa do Planalto gaúcho após a inserção do agronegócio da soja; c) averiguar o ponto de inflexão da atividade cooperativa considerando os aspectos políticos e econômicos no Rio Grande do Sul; d) analisar as transformações socioeconômicas e espaciais ocorridas no Planalto gaúcho e qual o papel das cooperativas agropecuárias na estruturação da cadeia produtiva da soja, como a modernização agrícola, a infraestrutura e a comercialização. A escolha em desenvolver a pesquisa nessa região do RS deveu-se a três fatores: a) pela expressiva área destinada à lavoura de soja e por estar localizada nessa parte do estado; b) por ser a parte do RS em que é expressiva a atuação socioeconômica das cooperativas agropecuárias; c) pelo cooperativismo agropecuário ter surgido no Planalto gaúcho. A pesquisa fornece informações que fundamentam as hipóteses de que as cooperativas agropecuárias são os principais responsáveis por fornecer suporte ao desenvolvimento da cadeia produtiva da soja no planalto do Rio Grande do Sul e por apresentarem capacidade de armazenamento e garantirem os negócios da produção agrícola para seus associados. Além disso, a pesquisa confirma que na década de 1970 iniciaram-se as crises no cooperativismo agropecuário gaúcho, entretanto, foi na década de 1980 que essa atividade passou a desestruturar-se economicamente pela abertura ao mercado externo, favorecida pela globalização. Essa nova situação forçou as cooperativas agropecuárias a reorganizarem a forma de gerenciar e conduzirem a atividade frente à nova dinâmica do mercado. As cooperativas agropecuárias conquistaram seu espaço e reconhecimento de seu papel na cadeia produtiva da soja. Constatou-se que o cooperativismo agropecuário gaúcho se encontra em período de redefinição e retomada da atividade, após ter superado o período de maior instabilidade e endividamento nas décadas de 80 e 90. Além disso, as cooperativas agropecuárias fazem a intermediação entre as atividades desenvolvidas no espaço urbano e rural, sendo esse tipo de cooperativa considerada um indicador de desenvolvimento socioeconômico. / The present investigation discusses the dynamics of agricultural cooperatives from Rio Grande do Sul and their role in relation to the socioeconomic development of the locations they function. This paper aims mainly at analyzing the performance of agricultural cooperatives at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau and its relation with soy production chain, verifying the continuity of their activities at the region selected. In order to understand the dynamics of agricultural cooperativism, the research was structured based on the following objectives: a) to study the evolution of agricultural cooperative activity in Rio Grande do Sul and its continuity in the current context; b) to investigate changes in the cooperative activity from Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau after soy agribusiness insertion; c) to determine the inflection point of cooperative activity considering political and economic aspects in Rio Grande do Sul; d) to analyze socioeconomic and spatial transformations occurred at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau and what role agricultural cooperatives play at the soy production chain structure, such as agricultural modernization, infrastructure and marketing. The choice of developing the research at this region of RS was due to three reasons: a) the vast area designated to soy farming and its localization at this part of the state; b) it is the region of RS in which the socioeconomic performance of agricultural cooperatives is significant; c) the agricultural cooperativism arose at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau. The research provides information that bases the hypotheses that agricultural cooperatives are mainly responsible for providing support for the soy production chain development at Rio Grande do Sul’s Plateau and that they present storage capacity and guarantee their associates agricultural production businesses. Besides, the research confirms that crises emerged in the RS agricultural cooperativism in the 1970’s, however, in the 1980’s this activity began to disassemble economically because its opening to external market, favored by globalization. This new situation forced agricultural cooperatives to reorganize the way of managing and conducting the activity in the face of the new market dynamics. Agricultural cooperatives conquered their space and acknowledgement for their role in soy production chain. We noted that RS agricultural cooperativism is in a redefinition and activity resumption phase, after having overcome the biggest instability and debt period in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Furthermore, agricultural cooperatives intermediate activities developed in urban and rural areas, and this kind of cooperative is considered a socioeconomic development sign.

This study analyses the wolf (canis lupus) and human relations in Swedish landscapes. By addressing the change of ideas influencing land use and nature management during the time when the wolf was considered functionally extinct, two parallel realities appear that is shown to be something that the participants in this study relates and recognizes as their reality. These realities in turn can be understood against the background of environmental philosophy and the anthropocentric and eco-centric view of nature and the instrumental and intrinsic value that the nature may carry. Life story interview is used as a method to grasp these details in an individual’s perception of the wolf and nature. Since the wolf is considered to be as a division between rural and urban people, the study also analyses how people sharing the space with the wolf is referring to these dichotomies and how they identify with their surroundings. With contradictory, data a new way of conceptualize this is suggested: that urbanity and rurality is something that could be seen as performativity, something that you do rather than something that you are (Butler 2007). One might express identification with rural space but have an urban performativity i.e. working, living part-time, influenced by ideas represented in urban lifestyles. While the rural performativity is mirrored by living, working and sharing the ideas of how that landscape is used.

Dans le cadre de la mondialisation et dans celui, concomitant, d’une certaine uniformisation culturelle, nous sommes confrontés au paradoxe de l’émergence d’identités et de territoires très localisés (en Aquitaine comme ailleurs), s’appuyant sur des représentations comme sur des pratiques culturelles originales ou, tout au moins, qui s’affichent comme telles. En quoi consistent exactement ces cultures locales qui souvent se déclinent dans un contexte de recomposition socio-spatiale plus ou moins profonde (périurbanisation, littoralisation des populations …) ? Dans quelle mesure la confirmation ou l’émergence de ces cultures locales identitaires et territorialisées exerce des incidences sur la citoyenneté, l’aménagement du territoire et le développement territorial ? Comment des univers sociaux arrivent-ils à s’affirmer ? Sur notre terrain d’investigation, l’angle du département des Landes et plus particulièrement sa partie sud-ouest au contact du Pays-Basque et du Béarn, nous sommes en présence d’une société qui est en renouvellement. Il est par conséquent opportun de s’interroger sur la manière dont se constitue la localité que nous avons choisie comme espace d’étude. Etant confrontés à des objets changeants, chargés d’idéologies, de représentations, nous avons adopté une démarche combinatoire qui s’inscrit au cœur d’une géographie sociale et humaniste. Le travail d’enquête et de recherche réalisé nous permet de montrer que sur cet espace la culture locale est une culture marquée par des apports extérieurs et des singularités propres. L’étude de la vie quotidienne dans notre aire d’investigation sud-landaise a mis en évidence des éléments endogènes constitutifs d’une culture de l’habiter, de l’Ici, de la fête, vivante et populaire. Pour autant, ces spécificités apparentes ne sont le produit que de "branchements" réalisés par des individus de plus en plus mobiles, indépendamment du contexte urbain ou rural. Le local apparait ainsi comme une construction permanente, innovante à travers une logique de "bricolages" identitaires. / Within the framework of globalization and the implicit process of cultural standardization, we are confronted with the paradoxical emergence of local identities and territories - in Aquitaine and beyond - which are supported by original cultural practices or claiming, at least, to be as such. What are the particulars of these local cultures, which often come in a variety of forms in the context of a more or less deep sociospatial recomposition (development of peri-urban et coastal areas) ? To what extent do the confirmation or emergence of these cultures, firmly rooted in local identities and territories, impact on citizenship, country planning and regional development ? How can social realities assert themselves ?On our ground of investigation, the south-west corner of the Landes département bordering the Pays basque and the Béarn, we are in front of society in a state of renewal. Therefore it is convenient to figure out the lines along which the local territory we chose takes shape. Confronted with changing objects full of ideologies and representations, we adopted a combining approach which lies at the heart of a social and humanist geography. Our work of investigation and research has enabled us to show that the local culture of this area is marked both by external influences and its own features. The study of daily life in our area of investigation in the south of the Landes has shed light on the inner components of a whole culture based on living, the sense of the “here” and popular and lively celebrations. Nevertheless these apparent specificities are the outcome of “connections” worked out by increasingly mobile individuals, regardless of the urban or rural context. Local features thus turn out to be permanently under an innovatory process of construction fed by makeshift identity creations.