Usages sociaux et spatialités du bronzage en Chine.

Être dans la norme vs. être à contre-norme.

Skin is a marker of historically constructed social and cultural norms, and embodies the tensions that may exist between what individuals and societies consider "normal" and "abnormal". If white skin in China is a socially shared aesthetic referent, sunbathing can be analysed here as an a priori deviant practice. The objective of this article is thus to understand, through the case of tanning, the social uses of the body, especially in public spaces in Chinese context. The spatiality of [...]

Contre la comparaison à sens unique.

Against one-way comparisons, which are based on familiar categories and consist in deducing, from these categories, the quality of the studied objects ; for a comparison which avoids « false transparencies » that are produced by situated norms : thinking the tension between what is common and singular without limiting it or hiding it, and freeing ourselves from traditional models (patterns or ideals). Conceptualization is understood as openness, as a horizon, on the condition that we don’t confuse concepts [...]