Guadeloupe : formes d’encadrement et espace de créativité contraint

Abstract

This chapter examines Guadeloupe as a highly intertwined framework of local and national dynamics, where student entrepreneurship unfolds within a space of creativity that is simultaneously stimulated and constrained. The analysis highlights implicit selection mechanisms (technicalization, profitability, conformity) and ambiguous relational styles, oscillating between support and prescription. The chapter demonstrates how relationships with authority and the symbolic distance of institutions influence the scope for initiative: some young people internalize dominant norms, others adapt them, and still others develop more context-specific alternative projects. In the background, the fragmentation of support systems and dependence on conditional funding produce discontinuous trajectories. However, initiatives on the margins reveal pedagogical and managerial experiments that can broaden the range of possibilities, provided that the plurality of forms of innovation and success is recognized.