Entente cordiale, or orthopaedic opportunities in France

Robb, James; Robb, Farifteh V; Finlayson, D; Finlayson, Fiona

doi:10.1136/bmj.295.6595.434

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“…28 Previously threatening regionalism became reassuring rusticity capable of strengthening a nation attached to its own unity. 29 Public discourse on the rural environment thus corresponded as much to the backwardness of a world perceived as isolated as it did to a temptation to return to past ruralities it by spotlighting its potential advantages. A process was thereby set in motion to position the countryside as a resource.…”

Section: Urban Return To Rural Territoriesmentioning

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How hiking reinvented rural areas: social transformation and leisure activities in Brittany during the 1970s

Attali

Fortune²,

Gomet³

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Rural History

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This study looks at the role of hiking in the development and the identity of a French region. Both rural and agricultural, Brittany saw a reorganisation of its territory during the 1970s, partly due to activities such as hiking. By becoming a political focus, the activity contributed to making paths, only previously used for field labour, a tool for territorial development. It also rejuvenated Brittany’s regional identity as it explored a forgotten heritage. The course of action adopted aimed to bring new populations, particularly urban ones, to rural areas. Behind the attention focused on paths, as an essential requirement for hiking, lay a concern for environmental and social sustainability with effects on lifestyles, tourism, and the shaping of a region in transition.

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Section: Urban Return To Rural Territoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How hiking reinvented rural areas: social transformation and leisure activities in Brittany during the 1970s

Attali

Fortune²,

Gomet³

et al. 2022

Rural History

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“…Thus, stiltwalkers could cover long distances without ever descending from their stilts. Robb (2007) reports that Landes stilt-walkers could travel up to seventy-five miles (120 kilometers) in a day at 8 miles (about 13 kilometers) per hour-quite fast, compared to typical walking speeds of about 3 miles (5 kilometers) per hour among inhabitants of large Western European cities in the late 20 th century (Levine and Norenzayan, 1999). 3 Stilts were thus well-suited to the physical environment of the Landes, and to the pastoral practices of local people.…”

Section: Histories Of Stilt-walking In the Landesmentioning

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Modernity, landscape conquest, and the mobility politics of stilt-walking in Landes region, France

Wickland

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Histories of stilt-walking in the Landes de Gascogne reveal intertwinements between mobility politics and landscape modernization. Reading these stories through a lens of “landscape conquest” centers the ongoing presence of coloniality in modernity, while highlighting the ways in which modernization produces homogeneity. This process of making every place more like anywhere else is more-than-physical. Universal landscape features, including universal mobility cultures, reproduce universal ways of thinking and relating. This depauperation enables the continual conquest of natural, cultural, epistemological, and phenomenological diversity. Conversely, landscape diversification, including the diversification of mobility cultures, could support abundant futures.

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“…In The Discovery of France, Robb shows that hardly anyone outside Paris even spoke French, nor was there any unity in religion, nor much modernizing of local intergroup relations, and that Napoleonic and other post-French Revolution (1789-1799) convulsions included resilient stability in local languages, facts, and patterns of life that did not change much until into the early twentieth century. 73 Humorously, Napoleon's initiative to bring Parisian French to the provinces through railroad construction, aiming at binding the nation together through ''superior culture'' diffusion aided by advanced technology, caused the predictable, and unwanted, effect of bringing provincial colloquialisms to Paris. Today, think about the whole-system impacts of the technology enhancement, globalization, and fostering democracy initiatives in diverse places, and their real, often system-resilient or morphing outflows.…”

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Resilience

Werther

2013

Armed Forces & Society

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As part of a multi-article presentation about national and social resilience to the military practitioner community, the article initially embeds the concept of resilience into a concept of change. From this grounding discussion, the profiling of national/ social resilience is presented as a useful part of building an improved intelligence process of holistic change forecasting. Next, as a better way of seeing and evaluating how different nations and societies will uniquely respond to crises, uniquely recover post-crisis and thereafter change into their future, a way of using resilience change profiling to improve intelligence foresight and forecasting is detailed. Also, an argument is presented that during periods of financial stress, such an approach has efficacy, economy-of-force and other comparative advantage benefits to Western military organizations.

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Entente cordiale, or orthopaedic opportunities in France

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How hiking reinvented rural areas: social transformation and leisure activities in Brittany during the 1970s

How hiking reinvented rural areas: social transformation and leisure activities in Brittany during the 1970s

Modernity, landscape conquest, and the mobility politics of stilt-walking in Landes region, France

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