Publications

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 ...

The aim of this paper is to bring to light the centrality of the Present within the framework of the democratic regime by showing that, far from being a definite obstacle to ...

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 ...

Walking in the city today, one seems to enjoy the benefits of a growing interest that is manifest in the renewal of pedestrian policies in numerous cities around the world. This is ...

In recent years, in the field of participatory urban politics, many political philosophers and social scientists have pointed out the need to decenter formal discourse and argumentation and to enhance more « ...

This article aims at understanding how the urban dweller experiments the heterogeneity that emerges from the density and diversity of urban space. Two classical propositions are presented : Simmel’s figure of the ...

Imagine there’s no private car. From one day to the other, it just disappeared. Nobody really wonders how it went about – somehow, all expected this to happen – but the question ...

From the beaches of Costa Rica to the Beauval Zoo or the Royal Palaces of Abomey, making and breaking the e-reputation of restaurants, hotels and tourist attractions, TripAdvisor has become an essential ...

S’appuyant sur ses propres travaux et ceux de ses collègues archéogéographes, l’auteure entend exposer la position et le propos d’une nouvelle discipline, l’archéogéographie, en montrant sa part d’originalité par rapport à la ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...