Localism as a society phenomenon. The return to a local perspective appears to be a salient feature of contemporary Western societies. Localism is presently accepted as a social fact (local experience) and plays a specific part in social structure (social building). In the scientific domain, this development has given rise to a community of localist researchers sometimes transcending the specific nature of each subject matter. The legitimacy of a local viewpoint is accepted as an angle of observation or as a field of research but also as a subject for analysis or as a theoretical or methodological tool. The localised approach differs among the social sciences but a multidisciplinary approach enables the furthering of our understanding of l...