Odette Louiset

Odette Louiset est professeure en géographie culturelle et politique à l’Université de Rouen. Elle a mené des travaux sur l’espace de la société indienne, sur la ville et l’urbanité, et plus récemment sur les lieux de production et la circulation des objets culturels (patrimonialisation, danse, littérature).

Contre la comparaison à sens unique.

Odette Louiset | 08.09.2015

Against one-way comparisons, which are based on familiar categories and consist in deducing, from these categories, the quality of the studied objects ; for a comparison which avoids « false transparencies » that are produced by situated norms : thinking the tension between what is common and singular without limiting it or hiding it, and freeing ourselves from traditional models (patterns or ideals). Conceptualization is understood as openness, as a horizon, on the condition that we don’t confuse concepts [...]