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Sustainable urban development and local democracy – tacit, multipolar areas of transactions.
This contribution examines the repertoire of sustainable urban development from the point of view of local democracy, which is often put forward as the cement between the environmental, economic, social and cultural domains of "sustainable" public action, in particular through inviting citizen participation. Based on the expectations, but also the "expectations of expectations" of all parties, without a sole hierarchical principle, these issues are upheld through tacit transactions between elected representatives and the technical and administrative services of local authorities, with the citizen in the background. The transactions are overlapped with multi-polar transactions with the "civil society" and inhabitants, within the frame of participatory instruments set up as centres of intermediation. Due to this transactional approach, some distance can therefore be taken in relation to the usual discourse on the "sustainable town".

From the border to the border area : some proposals for a sociological analysis.
This contribution returns both to the notion of border and how it is understood in research in human and social sciences through a threefold examination. It starts by examining the polysemy of borders, based on empirical elements with regard to the border regions of eastern France and adjacent areas in neighbouring countries, more broadly set in correlation with contributions from literature. This epistemological approach is continued in the second part of the article which explains how the border as a subject of research is moving towards the border area over a long-term scale, from classical geopolitics to recent analyses of crossborder co-operation, which may be pragmatic or more critical, not forgetting functionalist approaches to borders. This analysis sets the stakes of acknowledging the substantiality of borders in order to understand the processes and the stakeholders. A third section specifically examines the conceptualisation of the border area, within a dialectic of spatial and social aspects with all due regard to a twofold internal (inter-world) and external (original environment) dynamic. The result is the full sweep of how we consider borders in social sciences as a framework, an object and an analyser, especially in relation with the changes in the scale of public action in Europe.

Résumé L'article interroge la place du développement durable dans les projets et les stratégies urbaines françaises sous l'angle de la fabrique de la « ville durable », en mobilisant l'outillage sociologique des transactions sociales et une démarche comparative fondée sur six aires métropolitaines françaises. La transaction suppose l'émergence d'acteurs et de lieux « tiers », par qui et où des transpositions entre différents univers peuvent déboucher sur des hybridations, de portée variable. Cette mise en correspondance de prétentions diverses conduit, si elle fonctionne, à une création qui comprend une part de compromis et d'innovation, de coopération conflictuelle et d'hybridation. L'analyse dévoile en même temps des points aveugles de non-dits sociaux et institutionnels relatifs à ce répertoire « à la mode » ; les produits transactionnels en portent l'empreinte.

Cet article interroge les processus de construction de l'oubli dans leurs liens directs avec les dynamiques mémorielles, c'est-à-dire la tension entre effacement et conservation, à travers le cas du Reichsland
(Terre d'Empire) d'Alsace-Lorraine. Il questionne plus précisément les politiques de valorisation/dévalorisation de ressources mémorielles en mobilisant deux entrées corrélées : la mémoire collective et les identités nationales. À partir de quelques épisodes saillants, situés en particulier au début du XXe siècle, l'oubli s'analyse comme un processus sélectif et dynamique, qui ne s'oppose pas terme à terme mais s'accompagne de retours en mémoire possibles, fluctuants en fonction de configurations jamais totalement stabilisées et d'acteurs-porteurs en concurrence, ce qui permet d'éclairer l'enjeu plus large des processus territoriaux de production et de revendications identitaires.

AbstractThe article examines how the uses of memory in turn‐of‐the‐century Lorraine structured political discourse and presented enduring difficulties for the actions of German administrators and local community leaders. In this border region, memory was always contested and challenged, and thereby unstable. This paper approaches "the politics of French memory" through the examination of various pro‐French "memory societies" and networks such as the Souvenir Français. The central question is how did conflicts over memory impact Lorraine's political life and its place in the German Empire in the years leading up to the Great War? Regarding this point, the growth of nationalism is analysed as a phenomenon that reached far beyond French nationalist circles.