Les territoires face à la mondialisation. Le cas de l'industrie de l'aluminium dans le sud-est de la France / Local areas faced with globalisation. The case of the aluminium industry in South-East France

摘要

This article looks at the marginalisation of traditional regions of aluminium production resulting from the globalisation of the manufacturing system. Industrial plants provide the links between a local area and a transnational firm. They have played a key role in structuring space and in territorial development. Plant dosures have plunged local areas into economic recession, leading to reconversion, but this action now needs to be seen in the context of a wider process of redevelopment. The case of LArgentière-la-Bessée shows how this commune of the upper Durance region has based its redevelopment essentially on a cultural project, although without completely rejecting its industrial heritage.