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 [...]

Quelle place pour les vieilles cartes au pays des nouvelles technologies?

In the streets of their cities, Koreans are replacing their old maps with a new digital representation of urban space, revealing the massive societal changes underway in the land of new technology. These moves, including the promotion of the “smart city”, provide a convenient angle from which to consider the switch from the old industrial cities in decline to the new information cities on the rise. A new system is being born, drawing in the major part of the [...]

Virtualités.

Régimes d’historicité et individus contemporains.

Among the interviews conducted in Geneva, general and abstract speeches on the future are rare. This does not prove that the future is absent from discourses and imaginations ; it could mean that the tools we use do not enable us to detect it. The “No future !” motto only informs us that historicist myths have collapsed. Meanwhile, projects have taken place. By and large, this can be explained by the increase of lifespan time scale degrees of freedom [...]

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 [...]

S’engager en ethnographie. Une réflexion collective autour des pratiques de l’enquête.

Céfaï, Daniel (dir.). 2010. L’engagement ethnographique. Paris : Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Cet ouvrage dirigé par Daniel Céfaï réunit différents articles traduits de l'anglais qui illustrent chacun une facette de l'enquête ethnographique. Ils sont introduits par un article, écrit par un auteur à chaque fois différent, qui situe leur contexte historique et théorique ainsi que leur portée dans les débats actuels, que ce soit dans le monde anglophone ou francophone. Ce livre souhaite insister sur l’importance de l’ethnographie, une méthode qui touche tous les chercheurs en sciences sociales. Il réhabilite les [...]

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 [...]

35°Nord 34°Est.

Conférence/performance, 9’49, 2011

Illustrated conference performance, on the basis of a historic timeline of Cyprus. 35° north/34° east is the location of the small section of the beach enclosed in the buffer zone that divides the island in two, just below the closed city of Famagusta. This city was the starting point of a collective project, Suspended Spaces, in the context of which 35°Nord 34°Est was realized in response to the importance of the readings and representations of history in a conflict [...]

Concevoir l’urbain en figures.

Urban space is sometimes said to be irrepresentable. However, many representations and images make it comprehensible. These forms and images are spreading in our daily lives and in scientific practices through various technological tools. Trying to understand these fragmentary or reductive and totalizing representations challenges the definition of urban space. Beyond traditional representations and metaphors that deny the plurality of urban actors and objects, this article offers an intuitive survey of the representation of urban cities, of urban space [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]