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A l’heure où les élections américaines ouvrent, à la suite du Brexit, une période d’incertitude politique mondiale qui se prolonge de ce côté de l’Atlantique, City/Cité rassemble chercheurs, élus, urbanistes, militants associatifs, artistes et journalistes français et américains dans un dialogue sur le passé, le présent et l’avenir de la démocratie urbaine. Après le lancement de City/Cité à [...]
Based on a considerable fieldwork experience in Mali, this paper aims to analyze the ethnologist's responsibilities towards various actors taking part in tourism encounters. From similarities between anthropologists and tourists, I intend to show that relationships between researchers, local communities, guides and tourists are components of the ethnographic data. Tourism constitutes therefore an ethnographic field that needs a continous practice of reflexivity. Furthermore, because he is a tourist in his own way, because the mediators of tourism encounters tend [...]
The first circle of conflict lies inside each social science. Analytical approaches are opposed to systemical ones. Two examples are given. The first is the well-known Malthusian debate about population and subsistence. Those practicing analytical research dig each term deeply, contrasting them and describing their evolution. Those practicing systemic research study the interactions between the components of the two terms. The second example concerns the attempt to forecast the future evolution of fertility in France, which was a source [...]
Ce colloque international, fruit d’une réflexion conjointe entre l’Université Paris-Sorbonne et le musée du Louvre, porte sur la place et les enjeux du musée dans nos sociétés urbaines contemporaines. Les liens entre Paris et le Louvre illustrent non seulement un dialogue dans le temps, mais aussi un dialogue dans l’espace, la ville servant d’écrin au [...]
The collective work edited by Jacques Comby examines safety in the city and the associated urban forms through the prism of the discourses, practices and representations of actors that have been in charge of governance and urban planning in the Lyon metropolitan area since the 19th century. This book reveals the safety concerns and practices in the shaping of the city. It also offers an enlightening critical analysis. This review attempts to focus on the contributions that Comby’s book [...]
En quête d’ambiances is a contribution to the sensitive turn that the social and human sciences are able to cooperate within an interdisciplinary debate about the construction of urban public places and the control of their environments, by focusing on lived experiences. This publication is a collection of papers published from 1996 to 2014 and proposes an exploration of different dimensions of urban atmospheres, both from theoretical and methodological points of view. The strength of this publication is correlating [...]
Explorer comment la géographie, la cartographie, l’urbanisation et la justice spatiale jouent un rôle dans la compréhension de l’espace des humains et des sociétés. Comment définir et comprendre la notion d’espace? Comment l’urbanisation, la mobilité, Internet et la mondialisation ont-ils influencé notre perception du temps et de l’espace? Ce cours a pour objectif de définir [...]
Décrochage scolaire, absentéisme, homeschooling… : les refus d’école interrogent de façon pressante le monde éducatif contemporain. Le colloque s’intéressera quant à lui à la profondeur historique du phénomène, à la multiplicité de ses formes, de ses justifications et de ses significations dans le temps. Questionner les refus d’école en historien, c’est d’abord se demander si, et [...]
Contemporary approaches to cosmopolitanism tend to be situated between two poles: a descriptive one and a normative one, which often draw upon a classical sociological approach to cosmopolitanism. This article reconsiders R. E. Park’s approach to cosmopolitanism. Underestimated today, its characteristic is to consider cosmopolitanism both under an ecological angle and a political one. In its ecological form, cosmopolitanism refers to the distribution of a diversity of groups which come to coexist, to share the same urban territory, to [...]
20 – 21 October 2016, University of Lausanne. The Swiss Mobility Conference (SMC) is the result of collaboration between the urban sociology chairs (EPFL) and geography of mobilities (UNIL). The objective of SMC is to provide a place for discussion and debate for researchers in humanities and social sciences working on various forms of mobility. Presentations [...]
