Yann Fournis

From social ‘acceptance’ to social ‘acceptability’ of wind energy projects: towards a territorial perspective

Social acceptance is central in many debates surrounding energy projects. Wind energy, in particular, has been described as a ‘learning laboratory’ in terms of social acceptance of energy projects. It has given way to a socio-technical paradox: the social dimension has become a factor of equal importance to technology in the wind farms implementation. Based on a literature review concerned with the social acceptance of wind energy, the paper seeks to demonstrate both the richness and the limits of the key concepts that inform the ongoing work of scholars. By doing so, we intend to emphasise the complex processes underneath in order to then elaborate a conceptual definition of social acceptability. Various modulations and limits that characterise current thinking are thus underlined. We then propose a grid analysis relying on a territorial perspective. It is structured around three levels that connect micro-social, meso-political and macro-economic processes.

La politisation des identités régionales : perspectives ouest-européennes

Le processus de politisation des identites regionales est une des figures marquantes de la question territoriale en Europe de l’Ouest. Cette dynamique bottom up s’incarne en particulier dans des organisations politiques – les partis regionaliste et nationaliste – dont les repertoires politiques sont structures par la distinction ethnique et les revendications territoriales dans des Etats deja existants. Ces dernieres decennies, ces partis ont fortement gagne en influence au point de contraindre les elites politiques des plus grandes democraties europeennes a engager des reformes dans le sens de la decentralisation. Pour comprendre ces evolutions, la science politique dispose de differentes grilles de lecture. La premiere, dans la lignee des travaux pionniers de Stein Rokkan, analyse la construction et les transformations du clivage territorial. La seconde cherche a replacer la politisation des identites regionales dans le cadre plus large de la recomposition de la figure de l’Etat-nation.

The Regionalisms of Regional Employers: Diversity in Economic Mobilization in Brittany

Abstract Brittany is a robust exception to the traditional weakness of regional economic associations in France; from the 1990s, regional enterprises tend to organize on the regional scale, in order to pursue productive aims or even exert influence over public institutions. However, these collective actions depend on very different political and economic logics in High and Low Brittany. This configuration thus carries on to examine the theories on the recombining of the European territories (new-regionalism, new-localism), to understand how these logics contribute to a fragmentation of the regional governance.