Tableaux de bord en mouvements.

Lire les spatialités par leurs métriques.

Approaching the spatial dimension of the social worlds through spatialities leads to an analysis of the “dashboards of metrics” by which actors make trade-offs in their management of distances. We can see that the relations between the three major metric families (co-presence, mobility and telecommunication) are marked by coopetition: they combine rather than exclude each other. This is all the more true today, when a complex, non-hierarchical hybridisation is currently emerging. A pragmatic foresight can help us to see [...]

Trois Brésil politiques.

L’élection présidentielle brésilienne de 2022.

The 2022 Brazilian presidential election appears at first glance to be a confrontation between two juxtaposed spaces. In fact, it is more a layout of three superimposed spaces, each corresponding to a type of cleavage: centre/periphery, economic capital and gradients of urbanity. These are therefore three political Brazils, each occupying the whole of the country's territory, which must be described and interpreted. [...]

France, une société géographique.

The geography of the presidential election's second round is both simple and strong. It reveals a very marked opposition in terms of urbanity gradients and is more marked than the age, diploma or professional divides. The issue of inhabiting, where the voters' margins of autonomous choice are the most significant, shows the best resonance with political orientations. [...]

Faire la queue…

Patience et politique.

Queuing: although the expressions for it vary, the practice is probably one of the most widely shared experiences. However, it is far from being trivial. The observation of this singular experience, which plays with everyone's patience, speaks of cohabitation, and therefore of politics. [...]

France 2022 : un paysage politique

This special issue is based on maps and analyses of the French presidential election of 2022. [...]

Cartes sur table.

Voici une sélection des cartes publiées dans Le Grand Continent  le 13 avril 2022 qui nous a autorisés à les republier. S’y ajoutent de nouvelles cartes réalisées après le second tour. Dans les deux cas, elles ont été réalisées par le pôle Cartographie de la chaire Intelligence spatiale de l’UPHF (Jacques Lévy, Sébastien Piantoni et Justine Richelle) avec [...]

Son meilleur rôle.

Un acteur dans une société d’acteurs.

Actor and ‘actor’: Is there more than a metaphor between a performer and this concept of social science? Probably, and the war in Ukraine makes us more clearly aware of this. [...]

Ton voisin Sébastien.

Si tu ne viens pas au commerce, le commerce ira à toi !

Itinerant trade is a very old activity. Today, it is deployed in a variety of forms and contexts. Nowadays, store trucks are developing very different business proposals with a large variety of vehicles. Their commercial tours produce social links in specific networks. It is a model of original urbanity. [...]

Juste un doigt.

Le populaire et le populisme.

Of the wise and the foolish, of the moon and the finger, the popular proverb chooses the former. It is nevertheless advisable to question the obvious. Between the unchangeable visible and the works in progress, between imitation and invention, between forms of ease and a work on oneself, on others and on the World always difficult, who wants to make the fool does he not make the wise man? [...]

Alex-ça.

Les choses ne sont pas des gens.

Billions of ‘connected objects’ give new leverages for an ontological blurring between humans and things. The discussion should be taken back to basics in a context where actors, environments, and material or immaterial objects populate our daily lives. [...]