Langue et territoire. Autour de la géographie culturelle

Abstract

Language and territory - The author criticises traditional cultural geography as a form of representation of visual objects, as an indadequate form of visualisation and classification. An alter-native cultural geography is presented. "Culture" is defined as a three-dimensional concept (labour, language and territory). "Territoriality" is understood as a trino-mial relational set of human actions: production, exchange and consumption. They are not interpreted in a crude economic manner, but rather as a comprehensive con-cept for the explanation of the transformation of nature, cultures and societies. "Language" is defined by four key functions and related types of territories. Lan-guage and territory are therefore not understood as a fixed unit as in (geo-)determi-nist or in the blood and soil ideologies, but much more as a historical expression, a combination produced by human actions. Labour, language and territory should be analysed by cultural geography as complementary (mega-)means of the repro-duction of culture. This new cultural geography is elaborated and the paper con-cludes with an outline of an alternative research programme.

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