Acknowledgements -- Introduction xv Antoine LAPORTE and Antonine RIBARDIÈRE -- Part 1. Territorial Division and the Political Project -- Chapter 1. France's Départements and Municipalities: Fossils or Phoenixes? 3 Antoine LAPORTE -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Republican equality embodied by regular territorial division -- 1.3. The age of decentralization: the invention of regions and intermunicipal structures -- 1.4. In the 2010s, continuing decentralization without eliminating any tiers -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 1.6. References -- Chapter 2. Intermunicipal Division: An Ambiguous Revolution 25 Guillaume VERGNAUD and Antoine LAPORTE -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The origin of the intermunicipal association: the inadequacies of an unbreakable municipal territorial division -- 2.3. Intermunicipal division: the rapid but gradual construction of a new division at local level -- 2.4. Impacts, stakes and debates -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 2.6. References -- Chapter 3. Contradictory Bets on a Greater Paris 47 Xavier DESJARDINS -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Bigger, more democratic? -- 3.3. Bigger, more coherent? -- 3.4. Conclusion: how the scale changes -- 3.5. References -- Chapter 4. Creating Neighborhoods for Participatory Democracy 59 Anne-Lise HUMAIN-LAMOURE -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Neighborhoods at the National Assembly and the Senate: the grand narratives of republican territory reinterpreted -- 4.3. Setting up neighborhoods: elusive legality, uncertain pragmatism -- 4.4. Making territories: the facts of division -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 4.6. References -- Chapter 5. Division for Better Governance in Post-Revolution Tunisia 77 Maher BEN REBAH -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Genesis and evolution of territorial divisions in Tunisia -- 5.3. Land communalization in post-revolution Tunisia: the legal impasse, the political agenda and the technical solution -- 5.4. Communalization: between past territorial heritage and future electoral implications -- 5.5. Conclusion -- 5.6. References -- Part 2. Territorial Division and Access to Rights -- Chapter 6. The Challenges of the French Judicial Map 107 Etienne CAHU -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Rationality, equality, technicality, profit: the multiple foundations of the French judicial map -- 6.3. What impact do judicial territorial divisions have on access to the courts and the delivery of justice? -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 6.5. References -- Chapter 7. School Sectorization, the Territorial Division of the French Republic's Schools? 135 Jean-Christophe FRANÇOIS -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. From Jules Ferry to the collège unique: standardizing public secondary education and financing private schools -- 7.3. Opening up education and sectorization (1981-2007) -- 7.4. 2007-2012: pseudo-de-sectorization and its consequences -- 7.5. 2012-2020: Believing that sectorization is a good thing, but that current boundaries are wrong and lead to segregation -- 7.6. Conclusion: when the framework hides the territorial division -- 7.7. References -- Chapter 8. The Territorial Division of Social Action to Promote Cohesion and Reduce Inequalities 159 Antonine RIBARDIÈRE -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Professional territorial division, unstable by nature? -- 8.3. From specialized administrative zoning to the territorialization of the département's public action -- 8.4. Towards infra-département division? -- 8.5. Conclusion -- 8.6. References -- Chapter 9. France's Territorial Frameworks for Public Health Policy 179 Catherine MANGENEY, Emmanuel ELIOT, Véronique LUCAS-GABRIELLI, Guillaume CHEVILLARD and Magali COLDEFY -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. When the territorial division of healthcare translates into state oversight -- 9.3. Division as a tool for redistribution -- 9.4. Towards multi-form territories? -- 9.5. Conclusion -- 9.6. References -- Part 3. Sharing Public Action: From Territorial Division to Zoning -- Chapter 10. Selecting and Acting upon "Priority Neighborhoods" to Reduce Inequalities? 205 Violette ARNOULET and Christine LELÉVRIER -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Urban policy or the construction of a territorialized public problem -- 10.3. "Priority geography" as a tool for decentralized public action -- 10.4. Acting on "priority neighborhoods" to combat inequality? -- 10.5. Conclusion -- 10.6. References -- Chapter 11. Demarcate to Preserve: Zoning Protected Areas in France 225 Lionel LASLAZ -- 11.1. Introduction: territorial division and nature: an oxymoron? -- 11.2. From naturalistic and deterministic presuppositions to the political boundaries of protected areas: an ongoing negotiation -- 11.3. Inside and outside: the territorial division of protected spaces or the shaping of compromise through space -- 11.4. Stacking territorial divisions: the temptation to overlay protected areas -- 11.5. Conclusion -- 11.6. References -- Chapter 12. Public Action Zoning in Rural Areas 259 Pascal CHEVALIER and Guillaume LACQUEMENT -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. From public policy zoning to public action zoning -- 12.3. Project territories for regional development -- 12.4. From mobilizing stakeholders to building project territories: the ambivalence of public action zoning -- 12.5. Conclusion -- 12.6. References -- Chapter 13. Rural Revitalization Zones: Between Equality and Efficiency 287 Christophe QUÉVA -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Logics and principles of ZRRs: an ideal of territorial equality -- 13.3. ZRRs between (in-)efficiency of public action, issues of attractiveness and territorial equity -- 13.4. Conclusion -- 13.5. References -- List of Authors -- Index -- Index of Places.