La « région métropolitaine trinationale du Rhin supérieur » : contrer la périphérie étatique par la centralité métropolitaine
In 2010, the cross-border cooperation between Germany, Switzerland and France became the “trinational metropolitan region of the Upper Rhine”. This article aims at drawing the genesis of this new strategy. It relies on a geographic and scalar approach and uses data from a document analysis and a cor...
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| description | In 2010, the cross-border cooperation between Germany, Switzerland and France became the “trinational metropolitan region of the Upper Rhine”. This article aims at drawing the genesis of this new strategy. It relies on a geographic and scalar approach and uses data from a document analysis and a corpus of interviews. It points out that German regional actors were the true drivers of the strategy. They reacted to the federal agenda on metropolitanisation and created a cross-border consensus aligned with the German political and academic standards. In fact, the metropolitan argumentation raised European awareness and forced the national recognition of a trinational metropolitan region. The actors of the Upper Rhine use the centrality component of metropolitanisation in order to counteract the peripheral component of state border. This case study presents a process of cross-border region building which includes a national and a supranational re-scaling process. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5ce7c8db61f3421d80c20e9f77ba00e92025-08-20T02:27:28ZengSociété Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of GeographyBelgeo1377-23682294-91352019-02-01210.4000/belgeo.32078La « région métropolitaine trinationale du Rhin supérieur » : contrer la périphérie étatique par la centralité métropolitainePauline PupierIn 2010, the cross-border cooperation between Germany, Switzerland and France became the “trinational metropolitan region of the Upper Rhine”. This article aims at drawing the genesis of this new strategy. It relies on a geographic and scalar approach and uses data from a document analysis and a corpus of interviews. It points out that German regional actors were the true drivers of the strategy. They reacted to the federal agenda on metropolitanisation and created a cross-border consensus aligned with the German political and academic standards. In fact, the metropolitan argumentation raised European awareness and forced the national recognition of a trinational metropolitan region. The actors of the Upper Rhine use the centrality component of metropolitanisation in order to counteract the peripheral component of state border. This case study presents a process of cross-border region building which includes a national and a supranational re-scaling process.https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/32078bordermetropoliscross-border metropolitan regionrescaling processUpper Rhine metropolitan region |
| spellingShingle | Pauline Pupier La « région métropolitaine trinationale du Rhin supérieur » : contrer la périphérie étatique par la centralité métropolitaine Belgeo border metropolis cross-border metropolitan region rescaling process Upper Rhine metropolitan region |
| title | La « région métropolitaine trinationale du Rhin supérieur » : contrer la périphérie étatique par la centralité métropolitaine |
| title_full | La « région métropolitaine trinationale du Rhin supérieur » : contrer la périphérie étatique par la centralité métropolitaine |
| title_fullStr | La « région métropolitaine trinationale du Rhin supérieur » : contrer la périphérie étatique par la centralité métropolitaine |
| title_full_unstemmed | La « région métropolitaine trinationale du Rhin supérieur » : contrer la périphérie étatique par la centralité métropolitaine |
| title_short | La « région métropolitaine trinationale du Rhin supérieur » : contrer la périphérie étatique par la centralité métropolitaine |
| title_sort | la region metropolitaine trinationale du rhin superieur contrer la peripherie etatique par la centralite metropolitaine |
| topic | border metropolis cross-border metropolitan region rescaling process Upper Rhine metropolitan region |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/32078 |
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