Abstract EN:

Differentiation of rural areas is more and more based on their societies ability to improve local development strategies. The analysis of conditions of emergence of local development process, in the department of Aveyron in south of France, shows an irregular resistance of rural communities. This is linked with the contradictory ways of territorial organization of the different actors from the local scale (elect, associations, administrations, socio-professional organizations and country planing experts) to the european scale. Local development's organization arranges the society's ability to buid up a project (symbolic experience of new action references) and its ability to enrol in a joint representation which, by the network, valorizes spatial mobility and social mobility, new forms of local development ressources. This organization rests on different systems of cooperation between actors (some are based on politic relations, others on expert relations or others on associative relations. . . ) : those different ways of cooperation traduce the principles of relations on the local political scene. The recent evolution establishes a politicization or an institutionalization and a professionalization of local development.