 French Caribbean Territories at the Crossroads: New Development Issues for Societies in CrisisLes Antilles françaises à la croisée des chemins: de nouveaux enjeux de développement pour des sociétés en criseCédric Audebert ()
Post-Print from HAL Abstract: Despite undeniable economic and social progress, development options of French Antillean societies in relation with tertiarisation are put in question by important stakes. The sectoral transformation of the economy, the dualisation of the employment market and structural dependency go along with widespread unemployment and remarkable social inequalities. Plethoric public employment, extreme consumerism and urban sprawl are the most obvious spatial effects of this model, whose corollary is the breakdown of social structures. Social change and new environmental issues go along with a renewal of identity issues. They put a question mark over such a societal model, as recent social unrest and institutional debates call into question of the relation of Antillean societies with their own space and more generally with their regional environment. Keywords: development; French Antilles; economic crisis; territory; identity; développement; Antilles françaises; crise économique; territoire; identité (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer. Revue de géographie de Bordeaux, 2011, 64 (256), pp.523-549. ⟨10.4000/com.6409⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01952176 DOI: 10.4000/com.6409 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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