Xavier Bernier

Conducted in an innocuous manner, the search for the title of a song heard in a mini-series mobilizes, however, the tools made available to all by information technologies. The sociologies of everyone ...

Why did the word « problem » almost completely vanish from French-speaking public communication ? This event does confirm the importance of hyperbole, euphemism, and litotes in the dynamic of languages. This ...

Réouvert en juillet 2018 après être resté fermé quatre ans pour d’importants travaux d’aménagement, l’hôtel Lutetia de Paris a d’emblée proposé des services de luxe au-delà de la simple hôtellerie. Centre de ...

To experience the crowd, whether in the metropolitan area or anywhere else, is, strictly speaking, to suffer under the weight of others. What is revealed are the workings of these uninhabitable ordinary ...

Making cats veggie ? This is a plan well under way, which deserves attention. It is quite different from a classical protest against animal exploitation, but rather the sketch of a new ...

Au printemps 2018, le quartier du Marais à Paris a été le théâtre d’évènements politiques qui n’ont pas manqué d’attirer l’attention. Rappelons les faits. À l’occasion, en juin, de l’anniversaire de « la ...

La rumeur ne devint-elle pas certitude ? Elle enflait depuis quelques temps, mais cette fois c’était sûr. Chacun pourra bientôt le voir, le toucher, l’écouter. L’entendre ? Il faut dire que le choc avait ...

Controversies, sometimes strongly conflictual, on public toilets signs tell us something about the state of a notable societal debate : can we choose our sex or should we comply with what (various) ...

Why football players’ haircuts have gained such prominence on stadiums ? What do they tell us about those who choose them, about those who look at them, and about the relation forged ...

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 ...

This paper justifies “le traverser” as a scientific notion ; it argues that it can be defined as the social validation of spatial practices organized a posteriori. ”Le traveser” is a process ...