L’écotourisme des jailoo.

La mise en ordre des pâturages kirghizes.

After an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in post-soviet Kyrgyzstan, this paper analyzes the local effects of a NGO project dedicated to tourism. Firstly, it enlightens the discrepancies between the expectations of tourists, those of an NGO and those of the beneficiaries of the project. Secondly, the presentation and analysis of a best practices handbook issued by this NGO and embodied in the tourism training points out new social orders carried out by the project. Finally, the analysis of a ritual [...]

Une cartographie participative est-elle possible ?

Ressorts et usages de la « cartographie » dans les projets d’aménagement urbain.

La carte, instrument classique de manipulation et de domination, peut aussi présenter des usages différents plus subversifs, lorsqu’elle est par exemple employée par des militants dans le cadre de luttes territoriales. Ces expériences de cartographie présentées comme participatives tentent de donner la parole aux sans-voix sur certaines questions de société. Depuis une vingtaine d’années, en matière d’aménagement urbain et de développement local, les expériences de ce genre se sont multipliées. L’article interroge, à partir de terrains [...]

Nostalgies citadines en Afrique Sud.

“Time is always memorialized not as flow, but as memories of experienced places” (Harvey, 2000). From this proposition, this paper suggests ways to reflect on the relations of city dwellers with past time and past space. City people are always confronted to spatial transformation, it is part of the urban condition and there is often no return. From there grows the feeling of nostalgia : a geographical sadness which is regret of lost time but also of lost space, [...]

La spatialité du texte. Étude sur la réception des Morts qui dérangent.

In spite of the relative dynamism of literary geography, the aspect of reception is neglected by the contributions on the spatiality of and by the text. This article intends to respond to Johanne Sharp’s invitation (1996; 2000) to give more attention to this part of the relation to text by getting some inspiration from the recent contribution by Hones (2008) who proposes an approach of the text as an event. To do so we studied the popular criticism’s discourse [...]

Grandeur et décadence des taxis suburbains Talladjé-talladjé de la ville de Niamey.

The city is a place for production; it is also a place for intensive socio–economic exchanges. The strength of a city is often measured by the efficiency of its exchanges which are occasioned by peoples’ movements and transportations within it and with other parts of the country. Hence transportations represent an important socio-economic stake with regard to the resources they mobilize and the jobs they create. In Niamey a great many policies have been tried by the public authorities [...]

Mapping the diachronic reality of the inhabited space on 2D.

An epilogue to the domostatic episode.

While we have entered an age of generalized mobility, this major transition is usually left out of classical thematic mapping, which traditionally proceeds by statistical aggregation of mono-topical data in what I shall call a domostatic perspective: a perspective in which individuals’ spatiality is reduced to its static residential dimension. My hypothesis is that this state of affairs is due to a lack of synthetic tools capable of rendering movement of large populations in easily readable synthetic maps. This [...]

A Cartographic Turn ?

Bridging the Gap between Sciences and Technologies of the Inhabited Space.

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 the “spatial turn” in the social sciences have innovated the discipline, opening up a new gap between geography and cartography, which despite its technological apparatus seems regressive and old-fashioned. Their reconciliation calls for a re-thinking of the philosophical basis of cartography, to [...]

Community Mapping for Intercultural Dialogue.

Cet article propose des pistes de réflexion afin d’identifier les modalités de la représentation cartographique susceptibles de faciliter le dialogue entre acteurs provenant de différents contextes culturels. L’étude présentée porte sur le processus de construction d’une cartographie participative en territoire africain subsaharien. Ce processus, qui s’appuie sur une approche théorique et méthodologique précise, a démontré son utilité dans la création d’un dialogue interculturel parmi différents acteurs de la planification environnementale. Il ressort de la présente étude qu’une telle approche [...]

Éloge de l’ambiguïté cartographique.

Si « l’art ne reproduit pas le visible, mais le rend visible », comme Paul Klee l’a affirmé (1969, p. 34), la géographie et la cartographie ont quelque chose de commun à la fois avec l’art et avec les codes de lecture habituels. En effet, elles rendent visible un ordre qui échappe à ceux qui [...]

Stratigraphie du présent.

Cartographies pour un projet architectural du territoire.

This study addresses the issue of the construction of cartographies aimed at an architectural design of the territory. Its objective is to produce maps that may adequately define participatory design rules in the territorial scale and attempt to render the problematic multiplicity and the variety of individuals involved today in the processes of physical transformation of territory. The proposal intends to study archeological cartography techniques with the purpose to build participatory support whereby different actors can be made to [...]