Objects

The Objects heading dissects an object (a map, a word, a website, a photograph, etc.) of interest to the social sciences.

Penser en mouvement.

La nouvelle édition du Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l’espace des sociétés que vous avez entre les mains est pour une bonne part la conséquence du succès de librairie que la ...

15.07.2014

35°Nord 34°Est.

Illustrated conference performance, on the basis of a historic timeline of Cyprus. 35° north/34° east is the location of the small section of the beach enclosed in the buffer zone that divides ...

19.11.2013

Genève face à sa mondialité.

In this article, Geneva, a small world city that is facing a significant economic and demographic growth, is examined with the help of a map where spatial distribution of Anglo-Saxon and Portuguese ...

02.04.2013

L’espace-Obama.

Spatial characteristics are more relevant than socio-economic features to distinguish Romney and Obama’s electoral bodies. A cartographic representation at county level that uses a population cartogram as a base map makes the ...

19.11.2012

Unveiling the invisible.

This interdisciplinary work examines urban transition in contemporary Vietnam. It focuses on Thu Thiêm, a seemingly ordinary and under-populated neighborhood located across the commercial and tourist center of Ho Chi Minh City. ...

28.06.2012