“Stop Amazon”: How Sarthe Is Resisting the Logistics Empire

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"In Deux-Sèvres, they have the mega-basins. If we don't mobilize, we'll be the warehouse department," warns Julien, an activist, during a mobilization in Le Mans (72). Mega-basins and mega-warehouses are indeed coming together in the dynamics at work: artificialization of land, monopolization of common resources for the benefit of a few and putting yield and productivity at the center - in agriculture for the one and e-commerce for the other. If…