Rompre avec l’artificialité pour réenchanter la ville.

Paquot, Thierry. 2015. Désastres urbains. Les villes meurent aussi. Paris : La Découverte.

Désastres urbains is a committed essay on the necessity of initiating change in the way we think, build and experience the city. Through a philosophy that pays close attention to the involvment of mankind in their milieu, the author analyzes various configurations that induce, according to him, the confinement and subjection of human beings. [...]

Gérer les conflits dans l’espace urbain, 18e-21e siècles.

La ville en ébullition is a collective work containing about fifteen contributions that discuss the management of conflicts and insecurity in urban space, from the eighteenth century until today. The papers, written by historians, sociologists, geographers and lawyers, are organized according to three thematics : the evolution of the concept of insecurity, the maintenance of order in troubled urban spaces, and the daily regulation of city dwellers through more or less authoritative means. [...]

L’outil-frise, dispositif d’étude interdisciplinaire du changement territorial.

Cet article propose de tirer les enseignements de l’élaboration et l’expérimentation, par un groupe de travail pluridisciplinaire du LabEx ITEM, d’un dispositif méthodologique transdisciplinaire et d’un outil-frise, autour d’une approche processuelle des changements dans les territoires de montagne. Les éléments formels nécessaires à sa construction ont permis d’établir un langage commun et de faciliter le dialogue interdisciplinaire. Par la multiplicité de ses ingrédients, leurs temporalités et leurs interactions, le positionnement d’événements, de séquences et de liens dynamiques, cet outil-frise [...]

Le Monde, comme si vous y étiez.

Les nourritures terrestres de l’Expo 2015 à Milan.

The topic of Milan’s World Expo 2015, “Feed the Planet” appears simultaneously mediocre, disputable, and complacent. Beyond this mixture of commerce, ecology and geopolitics, couldn’t we find there an indication that the very raison d’être of this kind of event has been exhausted? In the current context, Expos are not necessary, and even not useful anymore to discover the World, and lazy travellers only seem to keep good reasons to go there. However, this “floppy zone of the middle [...]

Sujets de sciences.

L’absence de clarté en sciences sociales sur un ensemble de problématiques fondamentales pose problème. Qu’est-ce qu’une science qui n’a pas vocation à expliquer, qui n’est pas vraiment expérimentale, dont les énoncés ne peuvent pas être sérieusement réfutés ou comparés, dont les expériences ne sont pas réellement reproductibles, qui est exceptionnellement cumulative, qui ne peut concevoir des lois ? Et qui, finalement, si elle existait, assimilerait les sujets à des objets, c’est-à-dire à des réalités comparables dont l’action est [...]

De la prison Montluc au Mémorial, et après…

Chronique d’une enquête.

In 2009, Lyon’s prisons closed. The Montluc prison was the only one that was saved from demolition and turned into a memorial to the victims of the Nazi repression. By so doing, the other stories and memories of this prison, that operated from 1921 to 2009, were « forgotten », including those of the Algerian War. This article retraces the investigation that was conducted by sociologists who followed « the making of » of this heritage process and sought [...]

Petit glossaire du futur pour une lecture démocratique de notre avenir.

With this glossary, written in the framework of an exploratory research on the relation to the future, we attempt to draw the conceptual network that allows for a “pratical understanding” of the future (Ricoeur 1983). A conceptual network that enables to answer the “what”, “who”, “why” and “how” of human actions. This glossary evolves around two axes : on the one hand, the way people are cognitively able to conceive of a future and, on the other hand, the [...]

La (dé)territorialisation et les changements d’échelle du patrimoine.

La co-construction sociale du temps et de l’espace dans la nouvelle étape de mondialisation.

This article analyzes a contemporary change in the spatial dimension of heritage, characterized by a twofold process of territorialization and deterritorialization. It shows that the territorialization of heritage has changed in scale and in social function — from the heritage of quarters, not just buildings, it has come to signify the multiplication of heritage-based public perimeters and even the contribution of heritage to processes of territorialization —, that it forms a system with networking and standardization of heritage, and [...]

Écriture versus rédaction.

Jablonka, Ivan. 2014. L’Histoire est une littérature contemporaine. Manifeste pour les sciences sociales. Paris : Seuil.

From reading the book of Ivan Jablonka (2014), L’Histoire est une literature contemporaine, this text emphasizes the idea that the scientific work of writing is one of the components of scientific production. [...]

La mémoire faite trajet.

Ethnographie des écrits de travail d’un conteur contemporain.

This article reopens the question of the art of memory by putting it to the test of the current revival of an old practice : the oral transmission of the tale. One of the difficulties met by current storytellers is the mandatory step of the written text. This paper focuses on the writings of a storyteller : annotations in the margins of collected tales, texts rewrites, filings in computer folders. Following a resolutely pragmatic anthropology of writing, I show [...]