En janvier 2013, se tenait à Rolle, la ville où réside Jean-Luc Godard — un cinéaste qui se voue inlassablement à n’être d’accord avec personne —, un séminaire du Programme doctoral Architecture et Sciences de la Ville de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, sur le thème « Avec quoi n’êtes-vous pas d’accord ? ». La démarche de ...
Being against something is not only about being opposed to something but being closely against. In this paper, I aim to explore the subtle way of « that with which you don’t ...
The thought that information and communications technology can lead to reducing spatial heterogeneity and therefore mobility demand is recurrent. It goes hand in hand with any major technological advance in this field. ...
Ritornellos reassure ; monolanguage frightens. Territories are incantatory references invoked by the manipulators of symbols who seek to mobilize arguments thanks to the idea of naturality. But what is a « territory ...
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 » ...
L’absence de clarté en sciences sociales sur un ensemble de problématiques fondamentales pose problème. Qu’est-ce qu’une science qui n’a pas vocation à expliquer, qui n’est pas vraiment expérimentale, dont les énoncés ne ...
If by looking at a reality we cannot change the model we have of it, then this model teaches us nothing. The theoretical model of critical and radical theory is based on ...
What if India also had public spaces ? These spaces would of course be different to those we encounter in Europe on a daily basis and state as such. While the conception ...
L’article interroge le sens et la légitimité de l’emploi du terme « urbanisation » pour décrire les phénomènes territoriaux en cours en Suisse et, plus globalement, en Europe occidentale. En s’écartant de ...
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 paper aims to assess the role of the visual in more-than-representational geographical research. Indeed, non-representational theories (NRT) are interested in new ways of creatively performing research. Here I focus on the ...
Relativism and universalism are two opposite but not antithetical views of the World. Relativism reflects the diversity of cultures and therefore allows to fight ethnocentrism, and makes controversies possible by denying that ...
Priority research topics tend to be decided outside of the scientific field, favouring the rise, within social sciences, of “abstract empiricism” (Wright Mills 2006), i.e. detailed researches that carefully avoid theorization or ...
Les sciences sociales jouent un rôle croissant dans le paysage intellectuel, mais en leur sein ou sur leurs marges, continuent d’exister des idéologies hostiles à leur raison d’être : l’explication du social ...
