Désastres urbains is a committed essay on the necessity of initiating change in the way we think, build and experience the city. Through a philosophy that pays close attention to the involvment ...
La ville en ébullition is a collective work containing about fifteen contributions that discuss the management of conflicts and insecurity in urban space, from the eighteenth century until today. The papers, written ...
From reading the book of Ivan Jablonka (2014), L’Histoire est une literature contemporaine, this text emphasizes the idea that the scientific work of writing is one of the components of scientific production.
Aging is a natural process. Yet, we often associate it with a final stage and therefore focus on the problems of advanced age. Becoming old is thus nothing else than getting closer ...
François Dosse’s biography of Cornelius Castoriadis proceeds from in-depth work on the archives of Castoriadis, which helps the reader grasp the framework of the philosopher’s conceptual production. The group and journal Socialisme ...
This multi-authored work gathers various contributions which focus on the “emotional relationship people have with cities”. In an approach that is both poetic and relational, the authors — mainly urban planners and ...
Cette recension critique de Psychogéographie de Merlin Coverley espère dégager les acceptions phares qui guident la mobilisation contemporaine de la théorie-pratique qu’est la psychogéographie. Reconnue comme une « invention » situationniste, elle ...
Le paysage est un concept polysémique qui légitime une approche pluridisciplinaire. Cet article propose une étude des relations possibles entre recherche plastique (photographie, vidéo) et recherche scientifique (géographie) autour du concept de ...
L’avènement du Monde by Michel Lussault offers a substantial and innovative spatial theory of an object, the World. Space is addressed both as a technical system and a society, and each of ...
La vidéo est un médium pertinent pour saisir la ville, et le cinéma l’a abondamment pratiquée. Urbanité/s Urbanity/ies de Jacques Lévy est, pour le chercheur en sciences sociales et notamment le géographe, ...
Dans cet ouvrage qui reprend sa conférence inaugurale au Collège de France, Pierre-Michel Menger cherche à réfléchir sociologiquement la dimension créatrice du travail telle qu’elle se manifeste notamment dans le domaine scientifique ...
Contemporary economic mutations contribute to undermining some parts of the French territory and their inhabitants. Thus, Christophe Guilluy depicts the geography of France as a two-tiered territory with, on the one hand, ...
Sociologue « sortant », Howard Becker a développé une méthodologie et des choix d’objets particulièrement intéressants à actualiser. Dialogue équilibré entre empirisme et théorie, distance critique et engagement dans le rapport au ...
Today, gentrification is one of the richest areas of research in urban sociology, geography, economics and anthropology. However, the interdisciplinary definition of this concept is far from established. Radical geographer Anne Clerval ...
This book review brings together two recent essays written by geographers Jacques Lévy and Michel Lussault. It suggests we see in them an appropriable answer to questions usually asked in terms of ...
