Les fragments de la Belgique: la Flandre et la Wallonie existent- elles vraiment?

A country's spatial organisation is a product of history. The authors examine how Flanders and Wallonia have been constituted as regions and to what extent Flemish and Wallon regional unity can be said to exist. They consider how space was created within each region, and how dialectic links between a developing work force, capitalist social interactions and socio-economic superstructures contributed to the creation of space. What relationship exists between this production of space and the formation of a regional conscience or identity? The authors' answer is a synthesis produced by sketching Wallonia's and Flanders' social production. -M.DeanSCOPUS: ar.j