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This article presents cartographic technologies as the locus where a new relationship between geography and cartography is envisioned. The starting point is that strictly positivist features, such as referential and quantitative information, ...
Geographical maps are rooted in Cartesian thought. This inevitably limits their heuristic value, especially in their ability to capture movement. In the context of present-day reality, marked by a society in constant ...
La cartographie moderne, fondée sur la conception euclidienne de l'espace et la mathématisation de son langage a servi de fondement à la géographie universitaire et lui a permis d'accéder au statut de ...
Cet article propose des pistes de réflexion afin d’identifier les modalités de la représentation cartographique susceptibles de faciliter le dialogue entre acteurs provenant de différents contextes culturels. L’étude présentée porte sur le ...
When the construction of a political space demands shared systems of measurement, ensuring that everything is made comparable, coding categories and procedures are brought into place. Attributing singular cases to measurable categories ...
Je considère la planification spatiale stratégique comme une pratique adaptative s’appliquant à déterminer ce qui peut être fait dans l’incertitude. Influencée par Deleuze et Guattari, je défends une théorisation multiplanaire de la ...
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 ...
Dans cet article, je plaide pour la combinaison des approches de Theodore Schatzki et de Jean Hillier. La première partie identifie et discute les aspects centraux de l’approche des emplacements sociaux de ...
Geographers’ relations with maps have a long story of attraction and repulsion. The map has always fascinated Geographers (even before the institutionalization of the discipline) as a powerful tool, able to demarcate ...
A conference organized by Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Université Laval de Québec, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and CODATA-Germany about cartography and its two different aspects: the epistemic one which concerns ...
Now more than ever, the debate on what a map is becomes more and more frequent and involves not only a narrow circle of specialists, but also a growing number of ordinary ...
A new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) starting from 21st of September 2015 invites students to explore how geography, cartography, urbanization and spatial justice play a role in shaping the notion of ...
Now more than ever, the debate on what a map is becomes more and more frequent and involves not only a narrow circle of specialists, but also a growing number of ordinary ...
The aim of this paper is to show how marginalized drug users who frequent low threshold drug facilities inhabit urban spaces in two cities, Bordeaux and Berlin. With a social geography approach ...
« Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there’s a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. »Beckett, Endgame (1957)Paleontology, as taught in schools and to the general public, sometimes produces ...
