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Facteur d'intégration territoriale

English translation: the centre of a unified territory

11:59 Sep 13, 2023
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics / History of political ideas
French term or phrase: Facteur d'intégration territoriale
Hello! I was asked to translate parts of an academic essay from French to English for a US peer-reviewed (i.e., scholarly) journal. As far as I'm being concerned, the author's style is clear and straightforward, the text very well-written and easy to understand. But when it comes to translation, I'm sometimes at a loss for what is the accurate term. How would you translate "facteur d'intégration territoriale" in the fowolling context? I do appreciate your taking the time, thank you very much in advance!


CONTEXT: "La Sedes Sapientiae illustre en effet le triomphe eschatologique de l’Église, et suggère donc fortement la volonté d’ascendant physique et moral du Saint-Siège en cet "âge des croisades", où la Christianitas doit être considérée comme l’entité géopolitique porteuse de la théocratie pontificale. Dans cet ordre d’idées, on comprend aisément que le monopole du sens de l’histoire représente un enjeu capital puisqu’il assure l’empire sur l’espace. En particulier, si Rome peut se présenter comme capitale de la Christianitas, donc comme son facteur d’intégration territoriale, c’est parce qu’elle confisque le message eschatologique au nom du principe d’incertitude. Après l'"omnia consummata sunt", en effet, il ne reste plus en attendant un dénouement dont on ne sait "ni le jour, ni l’heure" qu’à piétiner dans une répétition liturgique préparatoire à la fin des temps où le devoir du Chrétien consiste à prouver sa foi "eucharistique" en Dieu à travers une stricte obéissance à l’élite cléricale. Ainsi, la finalité d’un sixième jour sans fin justifie l’autorité que l’Église tire de sa mission eschatologique en lui assignant la maîtrise de l’horizon historique, c’est-à-dire la faculté de différer indéfiniment l’échéance d’un Jugement dernier qu’elle présente simultanément comme imminent."
tazral
Local time: 17:24
English translation:the centre of a unified territory
Explanation:
I think the previous suggestions are too literal. In particular, 'factor' doesn't work.
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philgoddard
United States
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3the centre of a unified territory
philgoddard
4 +2the factor determining the integration of its (Christianitas's) territories
Bourth
4key-factor in territorialisation
Adrian MM.
3force/driver of territorial integration
AllegroTrans


  

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57 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
force/driver of territorial integration


Explanation:
Quels sont les facteurs de l'intégration ?
Les facteurs d'intégration sociale sont : la famille, les groupes de pairs, les médias et le travail.

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'This isn't about how can we get lots of EU money, it's how ...
The Journal
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4 Aug 2021 — “Transport is the backbone of our economy and a driver of territorial integration and social cohesion within the EU. But it is also the ...

Rural-Urban Partnerships
Salzburg Global Seminar
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key driver of territorial integration and is used to identify labour market ... faith efforts of voluntary professionals. Future challenges. The partnership ...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2023-09-13 14:35:02 GMT)
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Governing and securing the territorial volumes of burial
Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com › ... › Latest Articles
by C Byron · 2022 · Cited by 1 — For example, The Rites of the Catholic Church are read as a means to 'secure the volume': ... The political economy of territorial integration ..

Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul
Project MUSE
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by GI Halfond · 2019 · Cited by 15 — ... church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a ... Download. 4. Disunity in Unity: Territorial Integration and Its Effects ...

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:24
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 49

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Daryo: "la famille, les groupes de pairs, les médias et le travail." // just add patrie, and it makes for a very interesting reference ...
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
facteur d'intégration territoriale
key-factor in territorialisation


Explanation:
si Rome peut se présenter comme capitale de la Christianitas, donc comme son facteur (déterminant) d’intégration territoriale > if Rome is able to hold itself out as the Capital of Christianity, hence as its (key-)factor in territorialisation (vs. harbinger as a 'postman').

Otherwise, you (BrE) have been rather than (AmE) were asked and fas as you are concocenrd - not being concerned as a present continuous.

Example sentence(s):
  • Commercial activities are the main factor of territorialisation by local businessmen.
  • Les facteurs déterminants de l'intégration territoriale et sociale des infrastructures ou projets .

    Reference: http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/6261
Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Andrew Bramhall: Totally bizarre and nonsensical justification below the answer.
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
the factor determining the integration of its (Christianitas's) territories


Explanation:
Or "the factor ensuring integration of its territories",
"the factor behind integration of its territories",
"the stimulus for integration of the territories it occupies"

Just to make it look less like MT.




Bourth
France
Local time: 17:24
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans
17 mins
agree  Andrew Bramhall
11 hrs
neutral  philgoddard: I'm sorry, but these all sound stilted to me.
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1 day 5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
the centre of a unified territory


Explanation:
I think the previous suggestions are too literal. In particular, 'factor' doesn't work.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 42
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charlie Bavington: Was going to suggest territorial lynchpin but this is the same idea without the word-for-wordiness of the other suggestions. The territory being Christendom ofc, and yes, Rome seeing itself as the centre (until Avignon, etc.)
19 hrs
  -> Thanks!
agree  tradu-grace
3 days 20 hrs
agree  Annette Fehr: "central place" is what immediatly came to mind, but I like your interpretation even better!
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