Les carrefours migratoires mondiaux.

La mer Noire, de la concentration de migrations ethniques à la dispersion de transmigrations cosmopolites.

For many international migrants coming from West and Central Asia and heading for Western Europe, the Black Sea is a reference space. This paper specifically discusses two groups : the Balotchis from Afghanistan and Iranians, and Georgians forcing Caucasian and Balkanian women into prostitution and involved in drug trafficking. This work compares their strategies and spatial learnings : the use of a typical broken English, the building of circulatory roads and the invention of economic strategies linked to “poor [...]

Les Nouvelles Traversées Alpines, la Traversée échouée ?

Crossings are the more often identified when they are successful, that is to say when the act of crossing a defined obstacle so as to reach a spatial entity considered a posteriori as the end of the process is done. The action is actualized by the addition of several validated social stages. Is it possible to speak of failed crossings ? Would these be a kind of crossing or would we consider them as “non-crossings” ? This paper deals [...]

Les dissidences récréatives en nature : entre jeu et transgression.

Exploration liminologique.

This paper is based on the study of leisure and tourism practices in natural spaces and interstices. From this starting point, it examines how dissidences, which fluctuate between games and transgressions, contribute to the ambivalence of the status of recreational activities in contemporary societies. In order to do so, it uses observations collected from a series of works from various domains and put into perspective thanks to the reviews of existing writings in social sciences and the documents which [...]

Traverser l’espace.

This work is about the “traverser” as a scientific notion. It is understood as the stacking of rhythms and spatial figures. Building a relation between space of departure and arrival through a reference space is a social challenge that mobilizes all spatial skills. This paper outlines the languages used to define the “traverser” : spatial architectures and spatialities are decoded with different figures and spatial maps ; visibility rules are developed through the study of tangible and intangible materials. [...]

Les traversées du quotidien.

Supposedly fluid, continuous and transparent, contemporary societies are in fact societies which divide, separate and cross boundaries. Micro-geography focuses on the numerous transformations that are part of daily life and have generated systems and sophisticated infrastructures to facilitate flows, while controlling and channelling them. Keys, tickets, access or credit cards, badges, remote controls, ID cards, etc. are essential today to get around. Inequality in the allocation of such “magic tools” make the ability to cross boundaries a discriminating resource [...]

Traverser.

This paper justifies “le traverser” as a scientific notion ; it argues that it can be defined as the social validation of spatial practices organized a posteriori. ”Le traveser” is a process of social “substantivation” that treats the distance traveled as a spatial unit. With examples from various scales and cultural materials, such as promotional films, webdocumentaries, cartoon or experimental movies, the purpose of this work is to define more precisely the linguistic and spatial uses of what can [...]

La ville marchande : une approche ethnologique.

In this paper, the author questions the city in its market environment from an ethnological point of view. Starting from fieldworks conducted in urban areas, more specifically in Paris, this article aims at presenting an ethnological perspective of market exchange situations. It examines different urban contexts that are characterized by the size of their market, questions the formation of urban spaces and actors, and finally analyzes the place and role of trade in the city. [...]

Le sujet après le sujet. Transformations d’une notion incontournable.

In contemporary social sciences, the notion of subject has an ambivalent position : on the one hand it is a central concept, especially in relation to existentialist and political interpretations ; on the other hand it is a controversial notion that some authors have decided to forsake. The aim of this article is to show why — in spite of the critiques, the adjustments and the retrenchments — the notions of subject and subjectivity remain indispensable to speak about [...]

Des acteurs en quête de marché.

Le projet de renouvellement urbain autour de la gare de Saint-Étienne Châteaucreux.

Cet article analyse la place de la gare TGV dans le projet de renouvellement urbain de Saint-Étienne Châteaucreux, en envisageant les stratégies des acteurs publics (essentiellement les collectivités locales) et privés (essentiellement les promoteurs) à chaque étape du projet, de la décision d’intervention sur un secteur dégradé a priori risqué à la réalisation des programmes immobiliers manifestant dans le paysage urbain le retour dans le marché dudit secteur. La confrontation des discours révèle que les différentes caractéristiques métropolitaines de [...]

Quand la projection tourne mal.

À propos d’une recension critique (et citoyenne) de La Nuit des Morts-vivants.

La question de la médiation textuelle des relations régulatoires et de leur circulation publique est au cœur de la sociologie développée par Dorothy E. Smith. Dans une veine praxéologique et phénoménologique, sa démarche débute cependant toujours avec les expériences incarnées des personnes insérées dans des contextes locaux, à partir desquels elle remonte à l’analyse des organisations institutionnelles invisibles, mais néanmoins constituantes du hic et nunc interactionnel quotidien. En examinant une recension cinématographique du film d’horreur La Nuit des Morts-vivants [...]