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 [...]

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 [...]

La mémoire désidentifiante.

This article discusses the film Les hommes debout, which focuses on a neighborhood of Lyon that is under renovation (Gerland) and the memory associated with it. However, the authors are less concerned with considering it as a document subject to sociological analysis than by recognizing it as part of an investigation that is already fully underway, the one conducted by the director in an aesthetic format. Adopting a pragmatic standpoint, they suggest following suit to the filmmaker, as it [...]

La résilience comme injonction politique post-Xynthia.

Instrumentalisation étatique ou territorialisation des risques de catastrophe ?

For the past decade, the figure of “natural disaster” has come back with force, mobilizing in return the notion of “territories’ resilience”. In this context, this article aims to analyze the etiological and axiological substructures on which the French central political power relies when referring to these two concepts. In this respect, the dramatic consequences of the storm Xynthia, which hit the French Atlantic littoral in 2010, have revealed a noticeable inflexion of the public policies of flooding/marine submersion [...]

Mémoire publique et mémoire collective de l’esclavage.

L’apport de la sociologie pragmatiste.

The aim of this article is to theorise a new version of “memory”, which we will call “public memory”, by using a conceptual framework inspired by pragmatist sociology. This theorisation will be put to the test through an ethnographic study that we have been conducting for several years on associations that originate in the French Antilles and support the cause of remembering slavery. [...]

Pragmatique de la mémoire.

In a pragmatic perspective, « memory » is no longer the appropriate object of sociological inquiries — « memoriality » is. By « memoriality », we refer to what actors or instances that are committed to memorial activities deal with : memoriality is what they have to specify and investigate through their own inquiry. They have to make memoriality consistent and sensitive through practical arrangements. In this sense, the contributions that compose this Traversal explore different memoriality regimes, namely [...]

Venir à Ground Zero, se souvenir du 11-Septembre.

This article prolongs Halbwachs’s analysis of the spatial localisation of memories by means of a pragmatist sociology of the experience of places of memory. In other words, it aims to show how the fact that one remembers a past event by visiting the place it is said to have taken place in is dependent on the people whom one encounters and meets, on the devices in place, and on the emotions that are felt. This paper considers the case [...]

Les promesses de mémoire : retour sur les écrits du 9/11.

This paper consists in the analysis of the promises of memory made in New York after the 9/11 attack, such as « We Will Never Forget You », « We Will Always Remember ». As speech acts (Austin) these promises show problems of infelicity, but as written acts they offer many enunciative resources due to their materiality (autographic, signature, public displays), which is well adapted to a situation of disaster. As collective solemn public acts, the promises of memory [...]

Des géographies queers au-delà des genres et des sexualités ?

This article aims to show how queer geographies fit into the history of geography and how francophone geographies can use them. It throws light on the origins (postmodernity and feminisms) and precedents of queer geography (geography of sexualities). In opening to intersectionality (political, racial, social and cultural dimensions), this new geographical field could enable us to go far beyond Gender and Sexualities Studies. [...]

Feminist and Queer Repoliticizations of the Brain.

The historical relationship between biology and feminist politics is one of proximity and distance, tensions and contradictions. This is particularly obvious in the current golden age of neuroscience, when arguments supporting sexism, the inevitability of the sex/gender difference, the equalization of sexuality with heterosexuality and much more are reformulated based on the findings from brain research. In this paper, we examine the specific entanglements of brain science and feminism and identify three main directions which are “destabilizations”, “reconstructions”, and [...]