Landscape in action in the tropics. History, news and perspectives - Introduction to the thematic issue ; Paysage en action sous les tropiques. Histoire, actualités et perspectives – Introduction au numéro thématique

Abstract

International audience ; By wishing to question the way in which the notion of landscape is mobilized (or could be mobilized) in the actions with a socio-spatial aim carried out in tropical territories, this issue 21 of the journal Projets de paysage has a double objective. On the one hand, it is about exploring tropical realities from the landscape entry, thus testing a notion situated between spatialized materialities and cultural representations and considered as the visible expression of intertwined biophysical processes and social practices. On the other hand, the aim is to contribute to the development of a socio-spatial engineering in these tropical territories, which is both interdisciplinary and intercultural, based on the consideration of local knowledge and know-how, on the co-understanding of the situations encountered and the associated behaviours, and on the co-elaboration of responses adapted to the specific issues encountered there. By proposing a new interpretative framework, this issue 21 of the journal Projets de paysage invites to rethink the landscape action carried out, intentionally or not, in tropical territories. By qualifying these territories as tropical, rather than Southern, it induces the taking into account of the environmental dimension of the socio-spatial situations approached in the same way as their social, economic or cultural dimensions. In fact, it is a question of questioning a landscape as a means of thinking globally, in the double dimension of the social and the ecological, what we often continue to treat separately. It thus becomes possible to pay attention to the complexity of phenomena, to their multiple temporalities and to the very existence of different arrangements between humans and non-humans. ; En souhaitant interroger la façon dont la notion de paysage est mobilisée (ou pourrait l'être) dans les actions à visée sociospatiale conduites dans les territoires tropicaux, ce numéro 21 de la revue Projets de paysage affiche un double objectif. Il s'agit, d'une part, ...