In their work and life, urban service providers are continually torn between policies and pressures from higher scales and the realities of the cities they inhabit. The ways in which they negotiate these tensions imply the complex adjudication of a range of normative issues, conditioned by the variety of socio-technical, political, and economic factors that are underscored in the literature. In this way, geographical debates on pragmatism and ethics have an important, yet largely overlooked, contribution to make to the study of urban services. These approaches can promote the careful consideration of how people engaged in service provision manage such complexity – including its normative dimensions – through their long-term embodied experience. Pragmatic and related ethical perspectives necessarily contextualize decision-making, taking us beyond ideology or institutional exigencies to debates about practical reason, everyday ethics and embodied practice.
Dans les Amériques, depuis la colonisation, l’exploitation de territoires considérés comme jetables a dominé à la faveur d’un rapport espace-démographie moins contraignant que dans d’autres continents. Désormais les espaces-déchets produits par ce système sont au cœur des débats sur la finitude des ressources, mais ils sont encore mal connus et peu étudiés. Pour montrer qu’ils informent tout autant que les espaces productifs sur les modèles de développement territorial, cet article pose les fondements théoriques et méthodologiques d’une approche à l’échelle régionale. Il identifie ces espaces consubstantiels à la mondialisation puis s’intéresse à leurs trajectoires spatio-temporelles.
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