l existe une ambiguïté sur la réalité de la présence de l’espace au cinéma. On pourrait dire que le cinéma est, par excellence, un art spatial. En fait, on peut discuter, avec des arguments forts, cette évidence apparente. Cet article s’intéresse plus part ...
Modern cartography, grounded in the Euclidean concept of space and the mathematization of its language, has laid the foundation of academic geography and promoted its epistemic emergence as a scientific discipline. Developments over the last decades and th ...
Twenty years after the publication of his book, Égogéographies, the author makes a balance sheet of the approach he developed in the book. Exploring a researcher’s psyche first of all implies the necessity of putting apart any social epistemology that refu ...
"L’avènement du Monde" by Michel Lussault offers a substantial and innovative spatial theory of an object, the World. Space is addressed both as a technical system and a society, and each of these approaches generates an overall, panoramic view. In additio ...
Spatial characteristics are more relevant than socio-economic features to distinguish Romney and Obama’s electoral bodies. A cartographic representation at county level that uses a population cartogram as a base map makes the opposition between both geogra ...
The deadly attack against Charlie Hebdo on 7th January 2015 in Paris has resulted in an immense protest and solidarity movement. This event deserves the full attention of researchers in social sciences. Beyond apparent contradictions, the movement displays ...
During the last decades, geography has lost its epistemological exceptionality, but is this enough? Social sciences are commonly threatened by methodological nationalism and, more generally, by methodological communalism, that is the corruption of a scient ...
Dans les entretiens recueillis à Genève, les discours généraux et abstraits sur le futur sont rares. Cela ne signifie pas que le futur soit absent des paroles et des imaginaires. C’est peut-être seulement que nos instruments pour le détecter sont inadaptés ...
Dans l'ensemble la production de connaissances sur le monde social souffre, plutôt qu'elle ne profite, du découpage en disciplines largement étanches les unes aux autres. L'interdisciplinarité (entre domaines) et la transdisciplinarité (entre registres) ap ...
Toutes les données montrent qu’habiter dans le périurbain influe fortement sur la vie sociale et sur les comportements politiques, autant que les différences de revenus. Ces données, il faut les interpréter et non les nier, souligne J. Lévy, répondant ains ...
In Molière’ s famous 17th century play, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 1 the central character, Mr. Jourdain, discovers with delight that he has been producing for years, by his simple speech and without even being aware of it, quantities of pieces of a literar ...