José Luis Moreno Pestaña | 01.09.2009
In this text I shall analyze the career of three Spanish intellectuals (Juan Carlos García-Borrón, Esteban Pinilla de las Heras, and Manuel Sacristán Luzón) from their autobiographic stories, with the aim of developing a sociology of intellectual failure. In order to analyze the different forms of failure in their narratives I shall distinguish between three poles of intellectual excellence: institutional reputation, intellectual reputation, and creative autonomy. So, with the experience of failure as a guide, I shall try to [...]
Une icône neuropsychologique ?
Mathieu Arminjon | 20.07.2009
Penfield’s homunculus embodies the motor and sensitive body as it is represented by the brain from corporeal afferences. Beyond its epistemological limits, it is still fascinating. Indeed modern science does not usually rely on artistic means to present its data. Medical iconography has soon seen in it the return of the “monstrous”, typifying classic-age psychiatry. Our aim is to propose an alternative reading. Through its own epistemic benefits and limits, the homunculus could attest of the contamination of neurology [...]
La composante de l’identité sexuelle dans les enquêtes sur les processus de reconnaissance institutionnelle de l’homosexualité.
Marta Roca i Escoda | 24.06.2009
This paper outlines some reflections and embarrassments which occurred during my PhD work with regard to the issue of confidentiality. More precisely, it concerns revelation of information that can be considered as an infringement on the “privacy” of some high-ranking leaders in the political and administrative fields. It deals with the arbitrations regarding the privacy of some people which I was confronted with as a social scientist while doing the fieldwork and writing my PhD thesis dealing with the [...]
Ethnographie des rapports au passé dans une communauté de bavardage électronique.
Madeleine Pastinelli | 19.02.2009
Drawing on fieldwork carried out in an Internet chat room visited for many years by French Canadian adults, this ethnographic study gives an account of the relationship, both individual and collective, to memory and archive in a context defined by a technology that allows the systematic recording and conservation of all interaction. The study shows that, while it appears necessary for everyone involved to produce traces of one’s “electronic” daily life and to keep a record of one’s interaction [...]
Écritures d’espace vécu.
Jean-François Thémines | 17.12.2008
La description géographique est une écriture de l’observation, au service d’une argumentation qui met en place une interprétation plausible du monde en tant qu’espace terrestre. Les procédés mis en œuvre dans cette écriture ne sont guère explicités en géographie. Une analyse sémiotique des textes d’espace vécu écrits par Armand Frémont montre qu’il établit en même temps que de nouveaux modèles (pour lui) de description géographique, les changements que produit chez lui la confrontation avec le réel. [...]
Über urbane Travestien, Parodien und mimetische Transpositionen.
Dieter Hassenpflug | 10.11.2008
A pioneering spirit has risen in China. A tremendous redistribu-tion of people from the country to the city is in progress. More than 200 million migrant laborers are currently pushing into the sprawling metropolises. In order to provide relief for the urban cores, satellite cities – both within and outside of the city fringe – are springing up like mushrooms all across the country. By doing so, often new, postmodern methods are implemented, which differ distinctively from Western satellite [...]
On Urban Travesties, Parodies, and Mimetic Transpositions.
Dieter Hassenpflug | 10.11.2008
A pioneering spirit has risen in China. A tremendous redistribution of people from the country to the city is in progress. More than 200 million migrant laborers are currently pushing into the sprawling metropolises. In order to provide relief for the urban cores, satellite cities ― both within and outside of the city fringe ― are springing up like mushrooms all across the country. By doing so, often new, postmodern methods are implemented, which differ distinctively from Western satellite [...]
Comment reconstruire le récit du territoire ?
Anne Sgard | 26.09.2008
This text focuses on the question of temporality through actual French public policies. It’s based on the observation of contradictory orders between appeals to the past by heritage and memory promotion, and anticipation required by all main legal frameworks. The object more specifically observed here is the prospective territorial approach, which in now finding some success within local communities. From a series of field experiments, this text explores how “story-telling” by institutional actors builds a link between revisited past, [...]
Hervé Brédif | 23.05.2008
Quality is all the more difficult to define as its meaning seems obvious. It’s worth considering the different senses of the word and trying to explain how quality can, at the same time, be forgotten by sciences, while being so much used in the field of management. Hence, a more precise meaning can be given. This allows explaining why official approaches of sustainability have reached deadlock. In fact, quality appears to be a precious operator, that reveals which characteristics [...]
L’exemple de l’aire urbaine d’une ville française (Tours).
Laurent Cailly | 13.05.2008
À partir d’une enquête géographique concernant la constitution des identités spatiales dans les espaces périphériques de l’aire urbaine d’une ville française (Tours), cet article discute l’existence d’un mode d’habiter spécifiquement périurbain. S’il semble bien exister, en périphérie, un mode d’habiter dominant, lié au contexte d’urbanisation périurbaine, dont nous présentons les principales caractéristiques, deux éléments permettent toutefois d’en relativiser la spécificité. Tout d’abord, on remarque comment ce mode d’habiter tend à se diffuser dans l’ensemble de l’aire [...]
