Times Of Territories. Introduction To The Special Section

This special section brings together a selection of contributions to the "Les temps des territoires" conference organized by the LADYSS laboratory in 2017. It presents a plurality of approaches centered on territories' temporalities, described through the spaces and their uses, projects and development actions. These approaches from different disciplines question the categories and the tools designed by experts, to measure the time and to analyze the spatio-temporal dynamics. It discusses notably the recurrent use of reference conditions to conduct a project, or the injunction to adapt to climate change. These papers examine the meaning that inhabitants and actors give to the territories trajectories and the resulting retrospective or prospective constructions. This set of proposals has a methodological and reflexive ambition: what is debated in development choices and the meaning given to collective action, as well as the place that researchers can take there.