Rythmes urbains et santé mentale.

This essay proposes an exploratory reflection of the heuristic potential of the notion of rhythm, and more precisely that of urban rhythms – a reflection that allows us to examine the relationships between people diagnosed with schizophrenia and the urban environment. The article first proposes a short state of the art of the relationship between cities and psychosis. Then, a brief discussion of the definition and status of the notion of rhythm allows to propose the concept as a [...]

Une sociologie des représentations sociales de l’urbain en quête de reconnaissance.

This article aims at filling a present gap in all books of contemporary urban sociology, namely the absence of references to the existence of a sociology of the social representations of the urban. For that end, the author suggests reconstituting the history of this sociology, located between the fields of urban and social representations, by analysing in a diachronic way the interest which sociologists of the urban had, and still have, for the question of social representations. This interest [...]

Les apports de R. E. Park pour une approche sociologique du cosmopolitisme.

Contemporary approaches to cosmopolitanism tend to be situated between two poles: a descriptive one and a normative one, which often draw upon a classical sociological approach to cosmopolitanism. This article reconsiders R. E. Park’s approach to cosmopolitanism. Underestimated today, its characteristic is to consider cosmopolitanism both under an ecological angle and a political one. In its ecological form, cosmopolitanism refers to the distribution of a diversity of groups which come to coexist, to share the same urban territory, to [...]

La ville au Moyen Âge et à l’époque moderne.

Du lieu réticulaire au lieu territorial.

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 [...]

Les lieux touristiques des villes ne sont pas des enclaves.

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, [...]

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. [...]