Les jardins partagés, producteurs vivriers urbains ?

Éléments de réponse à travers une étude à Paris.

The reports of a permanent rise of the urban population, a possible scarcity of oil in the future, a means of energy mainly used in the transportations of goods and an essential element of intensive farming imply to consider new possibilities regarding production and food transportation in cities. Urban production is envisaged here as an alternative. The study of a “jardin partagé” (the equivalent of a community garden) in Paris, correlated with other experiences of urban gardens in the [...]

La gouvernance métropolitaine à l’épreuve de la mobilité contrainte des « Roms migrants » en région parisienne.

Cet article, qui combine le regard ethnographique avec l’analyse des politiques publiques et la géographie urbaine, cherche à documenter les politiques en direction des migrants roms en situation précaire en Île-de-France. Jusqu’à présent, la « question rom » n’a pas vraiment fait l’objet de politiques à l’échelle de la région métropolitaine. En revanche, elle a suscité des réactions de l’État et des pouvoirs locaux dont l’attitude a oscillé entre accueil et rejet. Attentifs aux pratiques et aux stratégies résidentielles [...]

Traversées cinématographiques en Bordelais.

Fiction films and television series shot in the Bordeaux area are the corpus of study of this article. Their study provides a crossing of the urban area rooted in history. The tradition of shooting in Bordeaux is a player in the local economic dynamics. Through fiction, the geographer observes a recomposition of urban transects which highlights the identity elements of the city. These elements contribute to give the town its heritage and its roots in history, its bourgeois character [...]

Littérature et identité postcoloniales kanak : lire, écrire et agir avec Fanon (1969-1973).

In New Caledonia, the abrogation of the “Décret d’Indigénat” in 1946 marked the beginning of the politicization of the Kanak community. Some Kanak leaders, albeit briefly, joined the Communist Party in 1947. However, the effects of this politicization only started to become visible once the first generation of Kanak students came to France in order to complete their studies at French universities. The main objective of this article is to analyze how Frantz Fanon’s thoughts influenced early Kanak emancipatory [...]

Les musiques urbaines, ou la subversion des codes esthétiques occidentaux.

The purpose of the present contribution is to provide a way of thinking the wide category of urban musics (including hip-hop, slam, electro and improvised music). Several ethnographic observations have lead the author to the idea that the musical practices and inherent speeches are used by the artists to subvert western aesthetic codes by deconstructing several structural oppositions (such as scholar/popular, imitation/creation, singing/talking...). Moreover, the groups that are socially dominated use these musical technics as a tool for affirming [...]

Traverser les paysages : le plateau de l’Aubrac sur les chemins de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle.

The crossing of the Aubrac plateau is very much appreciated by all hikers/pilgrims going to Santiago de Compostela. This paper uses a collection of pictures as scientific material to study the landscape on offer along this route. Landscapes are described and then compared in order to identify the specificities of the crossing of the Aubrac and beyond and, more generally, to understand how cultural routes transcend landscapes and vice versa. In this original spatial experience, various walking rhythms are [...]

Sport et nature : une gestion hybride de l’espace ?

Le cas du col du Coq et de la Dent de Crolles dans le massif de Chartreuse (France).

The organization of outdoor sports areas is an important issue because athletes are not the only ones to invest nature. This article discusses the management of outdoor sports activities in a part of the Chartreuse Regional Nature Park (France). The latter has a particularly complex network with different managers, different political scales and varied sports and traditional activities. An analysis of the intentional management and effective management of the site (Mermet 1994) shows that the prerogatives of the managers [...]

Art participatif et spectacles urbains : une analyse des transformations des politiques de l’art à Lyon.

L’Art sur la Place and the parade closing the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon can be considered as participative art happenings, designed to welcome the cultural diversity of the city. Several analyses and critiques presented these events as “political shams” or as “rituals of urban areas”. By using a corpus of data collected in the course of long term participant observations, I propose to reopen the debate about the political consequences of these projects. In order to analyse [...]

L’artiste passe-muraille ?

À partir d’œuvres d’art contemporain produites autour du mur construit par les Israéliens face à la Cisjordanie, le texte traite à la fois de la question de la traversée de la frontière et des normes qu’il faut affronter pour passer la ligne, ainsi que du processus de résistance active que ce passage implique. Par son rapport très particulier au lieu, le « border art », ou « art de la frontière », questionne les processus de spatialité à travers [...]

À la santé de qui ?

Une ethnographie des discours professionnels sur le risque orphelin lié à l’alcool et à la grossesse.

This article analyses professional discourse on the associated risk of alcohol consumption and pregnancy. If health and prevention actors define this risk as a fetal risk, it however does not have a clinical existence, as nearly no caregiver has seen a mother at risk or a child victim of alcohol in utero. Looking at this paradox, we suggest defining this risk as an orphan risk. In the first part of this article, using Dorothy E. Smith’s sociology, we will [...]