Jean Lagane (November 2025). «Chapter 17. Entre attachements à la terre nourricière et artificialisation à des fins industrielles - Le cas emblématique de la Zone à patates de Pertuis». In Laurence Granchamp, Kenjirō Muramatsu, Nicolas Baumert, Florence Pinton (eds.), Returns to/from the earth. Views from Europe and Japan (p. 427-454). Rhine & Danube University Press.

Book summary:

Looking at the Earth as both vulnerable and threatening, this book invites us to become aware of the finiteness of the world. In the face of multiple ecological or technological crises, we may decide to return to the earth, but we do not choose the return of the earth. Excluding any fatalism, the book explores contemporary aspirations to reconnect with our common matrix or new common good in Europe and Japan. 

International comparisons highlight the circulation of ideas and initiatives, and invite us to rethink the ways in which we are at one with the environments in which we live. Using a multi-disciplinary approach involving geography, sociology, philosophy and economics, the authors bring together different perspectives and experiences to shed light on a threefold concept of the Earth: a living territory, a nurturing soil and a shared environment.

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Laurence Granchamp is a lecturer in sociology and a member of the SAGE laboratory at the University of Strasbourg (UMR 7363) and an associate researcher at Ettis (INRAE).

Kenjirō Muramatsu is a lecturer in the Japanese Studies Department at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and a member of the Institut d'Études Transtextuelles et Transculturelles (IETT / EA 4186).

Nicolas Baumert is a geographer and professor at Dokkyō University in Japan, as well as a research associate at the IFRJ-MFJ (UMIFRE 19) in Tokyo and the Médiation-s laboratory at Sorbonne University.

Florence Pinton is a socio-anthropologist, professor emeritus at AgroParisTech (Université Paris Saclay) and member of the Sadapt laboratory (Inrae/AgroParisTech).

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