Borders, Media and europeanization in local project
Résumé
This paper focused on the analysis of Europeanisation discourse produced by the metropolisation process of in two border cities, Lille metropolis and the France-Vaud-Geneva (Grand Genève). It issued of an european program research « Euroborderscape » (FP7 2012-2016). The theorical choice concerned primarily with social and political conception of border (Amilhat-Szary, 2015). Furthermore, the main objective was to look at the categorisation of "Europe" in terms of governance, ideology, imaginaries and prospective (planning and media). The methodological framework mobilized a corpus of discourse. The analysis of discourse come from interviews with public autorities and focus on media newspaper production. In this context, we realise in particular an analysis of « cross-border » projects in regional and local the media (225 newspapers). Three major findings come of discourse analysis: a technocratic conception in Europe and the metropolitan issues, a valorisation of functional logics to the detriment of the political project and a role of « opinion leaders » assuming by media. As the result, the notion of "mirror effect" explain the process: the Grand Geneve metropolitan region is an international more than European area, and uses political European project in order to confirm and to be in the "metropolitan arena". Lille urban and metropolitan development appears strongly linked to European construction and can appear as a confirmed European metropolitan cross-border place. The lack of public debate in the both cities show the gap with political and technical conception of borders and the uses of this borders.
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