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 ...
L’effervescence de la linguistique contemporaine doit beaucoup aux travaux de Noam Chomsky. Les postulats de ce penseur n’en demeurent pas moins de simples réductionnismes, niant la complexité ayant induit tant la genèse ...
The exhibition of outdoor art works in public areas leads to two main consequences. On the one hand the site where the work is displayed gains a new importance, on the other ...
Jean-Loup Amselle, anthropologue atypique, volontiers critique à l’égard de sa propre discipline, continue de poursuivre son analyse des pathologies de l’Occident et de déconstruire les illusions qui nous portent à fuir un ...
Spatial planning seemed to be out of fashion but this very stimulating overview, based on case studies that focus on various European countries, shows that the deep transformation of territorial planning has ...
With her book Close up at a distance. Mapping, technology and politics, Laura Kurgan, Professor of architecture at Columbia University in New York city, interrogates the political, technical and ethical debates around ...
This article analyzes the different ways of conducting ethnographic investigations that are proposed in the book Du civil au politique. Ethnographies du vivre-ensemble by Mathieu Berger, Daniel Cefaï and Carole Gayet-Viaud. Firstly, ...
Cet ouvrage dirigé par Daniel Céfaï réunit différents articles traduits de l'anglais qui illustrent chacun une facette de l'enquête ethnographique. Ils sont introduits par un article, écrit par un auteur à chaque ...
Science sociale rare et à fort ticket d’entrée, la linguistique dans son interaction avec les autres sciences sociales apporte beaucoup à la connaissance des sociétés — tant d’un point de vue théorique ...
Assessing science means assessing scientists. Some scientists systematically refuse all types of assessments, in the name of academic freedom. Others, such as the authors of this book, approve of assessment, though not ...
According to Hartmut Rosa, late modernity is characterized by an insidious exhortation towards speed. However, his latest work seems prey to this exhortation too, inducing a palpable tension between the messenger and ...
Alexis Metzger propose de poser un regard sur l’histoire climatique des Pays-Bas au temps du petit âge glaciaire à travers la lecture des productions picturales de l’époque. Il interroge, dans un premier ...
