Les scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale

The comparative study of the location of national capital cities is a problem of spatial analysis as well as a geopolitical issue, since the recurring scenarios reveal different political conceptions of national unity. Various scenarios are identified and graphically represented in this article, bas...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f98dbd79b5394a149a546ad352e658772021-12-02T10:56:32ZLes scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale1958-921210.4000/confins.6414https://doaj.org/article/f98dbd79b5394a149a546ad352e658772010-07-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/confins/6414https://doaj.org/toc/1958-9212The comparative study of the location of national capital cities is a problem of spatial analysis as well as a geopolitical issue, since the recurring scenarios reveal different political conceptions of national unity. Various scenarios are identified and graphically represented in this article, based more specifically on the debates in Italy in the second half of the 19th century and in Germany in 1991: the central capital, the border capital, the historical capital, the missionary capital and the hinge capital. They can serve, alone or combined, to explain the location of today’s capitals. In a second part, we investigate the links between territory and politics revealed by the location of a capital. The choice of a strong or a weak capital, of a new or an old city, of a large or a small one, of a single or a shared capital cannot be separated from the debate between centralism and federalism, and raises, in fine, the question of geographical determinism. The article argues in conclusion for a systematic study of the links between capital and nation building.Géraldine Djament-TranConfinsarticleCapitalgraphic modelslocation choicenation building processGeography. Anthropology. RecreationGENFRPTConfins, Vol 9 (2010)
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topic Capital
graphic models
location choice
nation building process
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
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spellingShingle Capital
graphic models
location choice
nation building process
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
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Géraldine Djament-Tran
Les scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale
description The comparative study of the location of national capital cities is a problem of spatial analysis as well as a geopolitical issue, since the recurring scenarios reveal different political conceptions of national unity. Various scenarios are identified and graphically represented in this article, based more specifically on the debates in Italy in the second half of the 19th century and in Germany in 1991: the central capital, the border capital, the historical capital, the missionary capital and the hinge capital. They can serve, alone or combined, to explain the location of today’s capitals. In a second part, we investigate the links between territory and politics revealed by the location of a capital. The choice of a strong or a weak capital, of a new or an old city, of a large or a small one, of a single or a shared capital cannot be separated from the debate between centralism and federalism, and raises, in fine, the question of geographical determinism. The article argues in conclusion for a systematic study of the links between capital and nation building.
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title Les scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale
title_short Les scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale
title_full Les scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale
title_fullStr Les scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale
title_full_unstemmed Les scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale
title_sort les scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale
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