Du lieu réticulaire au lieu territorial.
Hélène Noizet | 07.10.2014
The observations that are currently made by geographers about the end of the city and the recent predominance of the urban issue, basically non territorial, echo the studies in the history and archaeology that focus on the Early Middle Ages. These reflexions, often unconsciously shared, give a firm historical and geographical basis to the concept of city. Functioning at the beginning of the Middle Ages as a networking place, the city became a territorial place from the 14th century [...]
Jacques Lévy et Hélène Noizet | 07.10.2014
Ce recueil d’articles est d’abord le résultat d’une rencontre. Des historiens et des archéologues ont interpelé des géographes en leur disant leur intérêt pour la théorie de l’espace et en leur proposant un dialogue avec leurs propres problématiques, visant à la fois à mieux comprendre des sociétés du passé et à construire une intelligence renouvelée [...]
Construction d’un espace de déviance.
Kenza Afsahi et Khalid Mouna | 30.09.2014
La culture de cannabis au Maroc s’est intensifiée durant les années 1970 dans la région du Rif central, bouleversant les rapports socio-économiques entre les acteurs. Cet article se propose d’interroger le processus historique qui a occasionné le développement d’un espace favorable à la production de cannabis, notamment dans les tribus de Ketama et de Ghomara, ce qui a conféré à ces tribus l’identité notoire de « bled du kif ». Nous analyserons également les interdépendances entre les différents acteurs [...]
Existe-t-il un espace public indien ?
Carole Lanoix | 30.09.2014
What if India also had public spaces ? These spaces would of course be different to those we encounter in Europe on a daily basis and state as such. While the conception of public spaces, as that of cities, is struggling to assert itself in the cultural context of India, let us question, like the famous Indian poet Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan, the existence of an Indian public space. Far from answering a democratic, Western-minded or Eurocentred model, we aim [...]
Nicolas Poirier | 21.09.2014
The aim of this paper is to bring to light the centrality of the Present within the framework of the democratic regime by showing that, far from being a definite obstacle to whoever wishes to locate themselves truthfully in Time, inscribing oneself resolutely within the Present is a necessary condition to develop an ethical and political activity through which the individual and society can transform themselves. Before we criticize presentism, we will conduct a methodological and epistemological reflection on [...]
Marc Antoine Messer | 21.09.2014
L’article interroge le sens et la légitimité de l’emploi du terme « urbanisation » pour décrire les phénomènes territoriaux en cours en Suisse et, plus globalement, en Europe occidentale. En s’écartant de l’idée de ressusciter le débat sur la mort de la ville, il questionne les phénomènes de transformation territoriale actuellement en cours. [...]
Enquête sur un tournant sémiotique dans les pratiques de démocratie participative.
Mathieu Berger | 15.09.2014
In recent years, in the field of participatory urban politics, many political philosophers and social scientists have pointed out the need to decenter formal discourse and argumentation and to enhance more « inclusive », more « sensitive » and more « sensory » forms of democratic communication, which would directly deal with the environments and the experiential and material dimensions of urban problems. Apparently, the message has been received. Today, group visits in the neighborhoods, video and photoreports, exhibitions [...]
Alexandre Rigal | 09.09.2014
This article aims at understanding how the urban dweller experiments the heterogeneity that emerges from the density and diversity of urban space. Two classical propositions are presented : Simmel’s figure of the blasé and the Situationnists’ figure of the dérive. However, both figures must be nuanced : the first neutralizes too many differences whereas the second intensifies them too much. Starting from these repelling figures, we discover the figure of the remix, which links the capacity to experiment differences [...]
L’archéogéographie, une nouvelle discipline au carrefour des spatiotemporalités.
Magali Watteaux | 27.08.2014
Based on her own research and on that of her colleagues, equally archaeogeographers, the author wishes to outline the position and ideas of a new discipline, Archaeogeography, by showing its originality in relation to agrarian and rural Geography and historical Geography. This paper therefore starts by pointing the differences and commonalities between Archeogeography and ancient and modern Geography. In a second step, it discusses the specificities of Archeogeography in relation to other geohistorical disciplines or approaches. Finally, the author [...]
Léopold Lucas | 22.08.2014
This short paper argues against the perspective that considers cities’ touristic areas as « bubbles ». Indeed, a large part of research tends to present these areas as enclaves, almost heterotopias ; this point of view implies that tourism goes against local communities by producing ruptures and discontinuities in cities. However, serious consideration shows the limits of such conceptualization, hypothesises that tourism increases the urbanity of cities (by expanding the density and diversity of societal realities that are co-present, [...]
