The Works heading gathers theoretical or methodological research papers that contribute to epistemological thinking in the social sciences and other fields of knowledge.
De janvier 2012 à octobre 2015, l’Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS 6590 « Espaces et Sociétés » (ESO), le Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Qualifications (CEREQ) accompagné de la Plateforme Universitaire des Données de Caen (PUDC), le Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique Môle Armoricain de Recherche sur la SOciété de l’Information et les Usages d’INternet (M@rsouin), le [...]
De janvier 2012 à octobre 2015, l’Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS 6590 « Espaces et Sociétés » (ESO), le Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Qualifications (CEREQ) accompagné de la Plateforme Universitaire des Données de Caen (PUDC), le Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique Môle Armoricain de Recherche sur la SOciété de l’Information et les Usages d’INternet (M@rsouin), le [...]
De janvier 2012 à octobre 2015, l’Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS 6590 « Espaces et Sociétés » (ESO), le Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Qualifications (CEREQ) accompagné de la Plateforme Universitaire des Données de Caen (PUDC), le Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique Môle Armoricain de Recherche sur la SOciété de l’Information et les Usages d’INternet (M@rsouin), le [...]
From January 2012 till October 2015, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (a French agency of research) financed a program called INEDUC, which dealt with young people (11-15 years old), their educational disparities and the construction of their pathways in their living spaces. Thirty researchers of several disciplines (geographers, sociologists, researchers of the sciences of the education and the sciences of information and communication) have been involved in this program. They chose voluntarily an interdisciplinary approach. That is why [...]
This article explores, from a sociohistorical and sociobiographical standpoint, the conditions of emergence of the sovereign-citizen in Cameroon. Prior to the structuring of a dynamic society, self-determination is rooted in individual subjectivity, while informing processes of social transformation, beyond the sociohistorical vicissitudes. The aim is to sketch a theory of the sovereign-citizen, starting from the logic of actions likely to inform the new issues of production of the contemporary. [...]
We wish here to make visible an environmentalism that we call ordinary, which characterizes the many, but discrete ways in which the inhabitants invest daily and collectively for the local environment, often their place of life, especially in urban and peri-urban areas. These civil society actors, including inhabitants engaged in collective approaches (associations, collectives, informal groups, coalitions, networks, etc.), act from multiple perspectives, diverse systems of actions and values brought together by a common denominator, the project of taking [...]
Mobility issues are today discussed by economists, politicians, various institutions as well as lobbies, and are raising now some societal questions. They are not only technical concerns, but also political and axiological debates, which are now coming together. We explore five controversies : outskirts accessibility, generic mobility, the control of mobile work, the right to retreat from the flow and democracy based on multiple memberships. A new kind of policy is then appearing, where mobilities are no longer a subject, [...]
This paper is a geographical essay on the construction of visual and narratical identities of space. The analysis will be focused on the role of the TV drama True Detective (HBO, 2014) in the definition of the imaginary of Louisiana, and especially on the relationship between this drama and the fictions of the Southern Gothic genre. At first we will try to define the role of the landscape in these fictions, comparing them with the imaginary of swamps and [...]
In charge of the conclusion of a seminar devoted to the evaluation of the multidisciplinary practices of young researchers with various disciplinary trainings, the author drives the reader of this paper into a confrontation of the postures and experiences of these "newbies" with her own, built in its long time of experience in interdisciplinarity. By identifying first the points of convergence – to get out of disciplinary rigidity and invent an assembling method –, she then detects those that deviate from [...]
This paper discusses the construction of an interdisciplinary thesis on urban inequalities and spatial justice in Maputo. The author observes her incapability to use a theoretical framework of social justice to study two development projects in Maputo, the capital-city of Mozambique. In this city, experiences of justice and injustice seem to be reduced to silence, in the context of a lack of a public space, according to Habermas’s approach. Thus, the author developed an empirical and interdisciplinary take on [...]
