Comede – Communication Médiatisation Deindustrialization
15The project focuses on the ongoing deindustrialization of mountain regions and the economic and social consequences of this trend. The case study chosen to address this theme concerns the social mobilization surrounding FerroPem’s plant closure announcements.
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The case study presented here concerns the social mobilization that took place in connection with the planned closure of FerroPem plants in two Alpine departments: Savoie (Montricher-Albanne and La Léchère) and Isère (Livet-Gavet).
The research covers the period from late 2019 to 2022, with an analysis of journalistic treatment of the social movement against plant closures, with a particular focus on the local press.
The approach also aims to put into perspective the strategies, positions and discourses of different types of players (economic, social, political, media), and sees communication as a device that accompanies and reveals power relationships, societal changes and citizen issues.
This is an approach to public issues through the prism of information and communication sciences, which could be accompanied by a more memorial aspect on the social struggles around deindustrialization in the mountains, notably through the retrospective accounts given by local technical and historical museums, and the filmography retracing these mobilizations.
Researchers associated with the Comede project:
Cyrille Bodin, Marie-Christine Bordeaux, Mikael Chambru, Fateh Chemerik Emmanuel Marty and Chloë Salles.
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