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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Les Nouvelles Traversées Alpines, la Traversée échouée ?

Crossings are the more often identified when they are successful, that is to say when the act of crossing a defined obstacle so as to reach a spatial entity considered a posteriori as the end of the process is done. The action is actualized by the addition of several validated social stages. Is it possible to speak of failed crossings ? Would these be a kind of crossing or would we consider them as “non-crossings” ? This paper deals [...]

Traverser l’espace.

This work is about the “traverser” as a scientific notion. It is understood as the stacking of rhythms and spatial figures. Building a relation between space of departure and arrival through a reference space is a social challenge that mobilizes all spatial skills. This paper outlines the languages used to define the “traverser” : spatial architectures and spatialities are decoded with different figures and spatial maps ; visibility rules are developed through the study of tangible and intangible materials. [...]

Les traversées du quotidien.

Supposedly fluid, continuous and transparent, contemporary societies are in fact societies which divide, separate and cross boundaries. Micro-geography focuses on the numerous transformations that are part of daily life and have generated systems and sophisticated infrastructures to facilitate flows, while controlling and channelling them. Keys, tickets, access or credit cards, badges, remote controls, ID cards, etc. are essential today to get around. Inequality in the allocation of such “magic tools” make the ability to cross boundaries a discriminating resource [...]

Entre climat et stratégie, une relation problématique.

La notion de stratégie s’est imposée dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique. Scientifiques, ONG, organisations internationales, institutions publiques et experts n’hésitent pas à placer leurs recommandations et leurs plans d’action sous cette enseigne. Le présent article interroge la relation entre climat et stratégie, telle qu’elle se révèle à l’examen des grandes politiques publiques relatives au changement climatique et des différentes réactions qu’elles suscitent. Il expose les principaux attributs d’une réflexion stratégique digne de ce nom, leurs tenants et [...]

La ville marchande : une approche ethnologique.

In this paper, the author questions the city in its market environment from an ethnological point of view. Starting from fieldworks conducted in urban areas, more specifically in Paris, this article aims at presenting an ethnological perspective of market exchange situations. It examines different urban contexts that are characterized by the size of their market, questions the formation of urban spaces and actors, and finally analyzes the place and role of trade in the city. [...]

Le sujet après le sujet. Transformations d’une notion incontournable.

In contemporary social sciences, the notion of subject has an ambivalent position : on the one hand it is a central concept, especially in relation to existentialist and political interpretations ; on the other hand it is a controversial notion that some authors have decided to forsake. The aim of this article is to show why — in spite of the critiques, the adjustments and the retrenchments — the notions of subject and subjectivity remain indispensable to speak about [...]