Du grand magasin au « grand » site touristique ou le paradigme des Galeries Lafayette Haussmann (Paris).

Tourism, an urban phenomenon, invests a great diversity of places whose function is not a priori dedicated to this phenomenon. These include department stores, which are regularly absent from official statistics associated with "tourist sites". This article proposes to point out this "oversight" while showing the touristification of certain department stores, whose paradigm would be Les Galeries Lafayette Haussmann. Although the place is absent from the institutional rankings related to tourist flows in the sense that it is first [...]

Corps et spatialités.

Les spatialités en questions.

The body is an "object" whose status is problematic since at least Antiquity in the "Western tradition". First approached by philosophers, whose representations are historically differentiated, it was then invested by other human and social sciences, which have remained most often silent on the relationship between body and spatiality. The geographers, for their part, have kept away from this "object", but the question of the body has become an epistemological issue, especially for those who have invested the concept [...]

Usages sociaux et spatialités du bronzage en Chine.

Être dans la norme vs. être à contre-norme.

Skin is a marker of historically constructed social and cultural norms, and embodies the tensions that may exist between what individuals and societies consider "normal" and "abnormal". If white skin in China is a socially shared aesthetic referent, sunbathing can be analysed here as an a priori deviant practice. The objective of this article is thus to understand, through the case of tanning, the social uses of the body, especially in public spaces in Chinese context. The spatiality of [...]

Conditions géographiques de l’individu contemporain.

Une entrée par les mobilités touristiques.

Les théories de l’individu sont à nouveau investies, avec de récentes avancées, favorables à une émulation, en particulier au sein de la sociologie française [...]