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The Works heading gathers theoretical or methodological research papers that contribute to epistemological thinking in the social sciences and other fields of knowledge.
The first circle of conflict lies inside each social science. Analytical approaches are opposed to systemical ones. Two examples are given. The first is the well-known Malthusian debate about population and subsistence. ...
Contemporary approaches to cosmopolitanism tend to be situated between two poles: a descriptive one and a normative one, which often draw upon a classical sociological approach to cosmopolitanism. This article reconsiders R. ...
Le terme « danse africaine » est fréquemment utilisé pour désigner les danses d’Afrique noire qui seraient caractérisées par un cadre musical de percussions, des mouvements du bassin… Mais à quoi correspond ...
Equitation in the French tradition has been registered in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO since 2011. This event questions the capacity for perpetuation of a ...
L’enseignement des sciences sociales est débattu en France depuis l’après Seconde Guerre mondiale, ce qui bouscule l’ordre disciplinaire existant. L’article propose d’expliquer le rôle joué par les acteurs engagés dans l’histoire scolaire ...
Cet article utilise un regard rétrospectif qui intègre l’histoire de l’ethnologie et de ses révisions successives pour éclairer l’ethnologisation progressive de la Provence. Ce faisant, l’ethnologisation est comprise de manière pragmatique à ...
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 ...
Les attentats parisiens du 13 novembre appellent, pour être décryptés, une lecture géographique multiscalaire et multimétrique. De l’« hypercentre intime » de Paris à la « guerre civile mondiale à basse intensité ...
How can one represent time without resorting to animation ? Still images have inhabited cartography for a long time and it is only recently that the trend has changed in favour of ...
This paper examines how documentary cinema portrays the situation of refugees who are stranded in Calais. More precisely, its purpose is to show that one of the creative possibilities of documentary film ...
Alors que l’anthropologie s’est constituée, dans les premiers temps de sa genèse, autour d’un discours sur l’Autre lointain et ses pratiques et croyances, ses objets et méthodes ont constamment évolué. Aujourd’hui, il ...
Forte de ses avancées techniques récentes et mettant en avant son souci de la santé individuelle humaine, la génétique ne s’est jamais autant intéressée à la relation entre l’apparence physique ou le ...
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. ...
This paper tries to understand and describe the place that nature occupies in sustainable city projects, and compare it with classical planning theory. We’ll see how natural elements have been constituted as ...
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 ...
