PILOT #3
L’ARGENTIÈRE-LA-BESSÉE
PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D’AZUR - FRANCE
L’Argentière can be glimpsed as one descends the hairpin bends of the Montgenèvre Pass: it lies at the bottom of the valley between the placid course of the Durance that runs towards the Rhone and, from there, to the Tyrrhenian Sea and the large infrastructures that surround the valley: a penstock, an imposing overhead power line and the sign in the landscape of the warehouses abandoned by Pechiney, the French multinational aluminum company that had an important operational headquarters here until the mid-1980s.
IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS
«Qu’est-ce qui va rester?» describes the system of collective representations of the inhabitants of Eisenerz with regard to their everyday life and their relationship with the theme of the de- industrialization.
MAIN RESEARCH RESULTS
Observing the social and economic well-being of local communities can be an effective tool for describing the transitions taking place in the present and the directions the future may take.
