How can we account for the immense diversity of human beings, geographically and therefore without standards or hierarchies? First, we have to give it a name. Initially, as a by-product of the reconceptualised inhabitant, the common name of inhabitant is used. It names a result. Or rather results. And so many results ...
By proposing the expression homo habitans, this article aims to establish the epistemological conditions for a study of each and every person through their geographies. The tools of "identity card", "geographical signature" ...
Using accurate and reliable data, it is now possible to account for the spatialities of an individual on a biographical timescale. A series of 13 maps explores a large part of a ...
The article aims to analyze the idea that one can live on sidewalks as one lives in one's house. It identifies, through the ordinary uses and forms of appropriation made by the ...
This article focuses on the social effects of contemporary urban renewal policies, and features two different forms of media: a text and a film. Rooted in the monograph of a social housing ...
In this article, we seek to understand how pupils learn about the world, and in particular how attachment to the various places they inhabit arises or fails to arise. This discussion is ...
This article aims to jointly analyse the standardisation of Chinese space and the ways of inhabiting these changes, using an emblematic connector: the Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai. There is indeed a ...
This article deals with the notion of itinerant inhabitants or dweller through the example of blue water sailors, those men and women who decide to cast off their moorings to live on ...