Anchoring, embeddedness, footprint: A metaphorical triptych about the relationship between places and societies. Reflections based on the relations between art, culture, and places

Ancrage, encastrement, empreinte: triptyque métaphorique à propos des rapports sociétés-territoires. Réflexions à partir des relations entre art, culture et territoires

Basile Michel (basile.michel@gmail.com)
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Basile Michel: PLACES - EA 4113 - PLACES - Laboratoire de géographie et d'aménagement - CY - CY Cergy Paris Université, ESO - Espaces et Sociétés - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UM - Le Mans Université - UA - Université d'Angers - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Nantes Univ - IGARUN - Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Humanités - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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Abstract: This article aims to contribute conceptually to the understanding of the relationships of individuals and collective groups to places through a theoretical proposal structured on a metaphorical triptych anchoring (the boat and its anchor), embeddedness (the interlinking of two entities), footprint (the influences and traces left). In order to embody this triptych, each of the metaphors will be defined and then empirically applied to the field of art and culture in a spatial perspective. The analysis is based on field investigations conducted on the relationship between art, culture, and places in various contexts (Île-de-France, Nantes, Shanghai, etc.) and using different tools (interviews, observation, network analysis, etc.). It highlights three main results : first, the spatial agglomeration of cultural places in some specific urban areas and the interplay of local resources and international circulations that occurs there (anchoring), then the diversity of forms and degrees of insertion of cultural places in the local environment (embeddedness), and finally the ambivalence of the traces and effects of cultural actors and projects on local environments and their evolutions (footprint), effects that can contribute to the local cultural vitality, but also to the production of phenomena of disanchoring/disembeddedness of artistic creation. Beyond the artistic and cultural field, this triptych opens research perspectives on the relationship between societies and places by proposing a transversal and dynamic conceptual grid to analyze the spatial dimension of social realities.

Keywords: anchoring; embeddedness; footprint; place; art; culture; metaphor; ancrage; encastrement; empreinte; territoire; métaphore (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in Annales de géographie, 2022, 6 (748), pp.52-81. ⟨10.3917/ag.748.0052⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/ag.748.0052

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