As a large part of their work is done outside the designated timetable and physical space of their companies, a growing number of knowledge workers are being freed from geographical constraints. Digital nomads have a lifestyle which is disconnected from a place of production (their activities do not depend on physical location). Third places (coworking spaces, fab-labs), offering an in-between individual space and workspace, have met this occupational phenomenon and are often chosen by digital nomads. Fourth places have recently developed, which specify in hosting digital nomads from around the world who join them for short-term periods of residential mobility. Offered to independent location workers and based on digital independence from intermediaries, those places might favor a form of going back to territorial integration/re-territorialisation. Gathering activities mixing « work -home life -tourism », those spaces give birth to new practices catalysing economic activities and seem to enhance territorial dynamics (social innovation, local development of territories). Under these schemes, territories do not escape a potential exploitation on the part of fourth-places managers and users. The places under study here are found in territories remote from big cities and benefitting from tourist attractions. They represent an array of territorial intermediation on the intraterritorial level: by favoring exchanges between digital nomads and the territory, by connecting digital nomads and fourth places to a cultural and digital community and by entering international global logics.
La gestion intégrée des zones côtières Deux paradigmes pour penser le temps et l'espace : le durable et le local Florence GOURLAY Maître de conférences en géographie université de Bretagne-Sud (Lorient) La gestion intégrée des zones côtières ou comment prendre en compte deux paradigmes contemporains pour penser le temps et l'espace : le durable et le local. « Nous sommes entrés dans une phase d'accélération de l'histoire, où le temps long se réduit de plus en plus aux temps courts des sociétés, voire des individus. » À cette accélération signalée par l'historien Eric Hobsbawn 1 il faudrait ajouter, non pas à côté mais corrélativement et conjointement, une complexification des espaces et des échelles géographiques : des espaces imbriqués, de l'échelon local élémentaire à l'échelon le plus global qui soit, la planète. 1. HOBSBAWM, Eric, Entretien dans Sciences humaines, juin 2006.
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