L'ensemble des articles ayant pour mot clé : place.
The CoviD-19 pandemic reveals a singular moment in the World. A new type of inhabitant was invented, that of the confined inhabitants. What does it teach us about the contemporary world? How does it inform us about the importance and the stakes of human habitation? But in what way does it also specifically raise issues that go far beyond it? [...]
The body is an "object" whose status is problematic since at least Antiquity in the "Western tradition". First approached by philosophers, whose representations are historically differentiated, it was then invested by other human and social sciences, which have remained most often silent on the relationship between body and spatiality. The geographers, for their part, have kept away from this "object", but the question of the body has become an epistemological issue, especially for those who have invested the concept [...]
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 [...]
