Publications

Pratiqué à l’origine dans les monastères dès le 11e siècle, se développa dans les universités européennes à partir du 13e siècle un type de discussion orale ou écrite, la disputatio, dont les participants étaient ...

Recent advancements in the humanities and social sciences have given rise to novel inquiries concerning the way science is produced through interdisciplinarity. The term "social" is increasingly used, even claimed, in the ...

This article proposes a linguistic, enunciative and discursive problematisation of the notion of place. It revisits the notion of place in the most widely recognised linguistic dictionaries and grammars, and then makes ...

Marie Houllemare’s Justices d’Empire. La répression dans les colonies françaises au 18e siècle examines how justice served as a key instrument in consolidating the French colonial empire. Using transnational archives, she sheds ...

One evening in November 2019, a visiting academic in Beirut came across a building under construction, occupied by Syrian refugees. He was struck by a number of powerful impressions. First, he was ...

Bernard Lahire's recent publication on the fundamental structures of human societies defends a number of epistemological and theoretical propositions, some of which we think are worthy of debate. Here we set out ...

Bernard Lahire's recent publication on the fundamental structures of human societies is a major contribution to the social sciences. This article details his epistemological and theoretical proposals on the production of knowledge ...

Dulac's collective work is theoretically ambitious in nature, as it proposes a syncretism between various points of view on the social: realism and constructivism, determinism of social structures and freedom of individual ...

One evening in November 2019, a visiting academic in Beirut came across a building under construction, occupied by Syrian refugees. He was struck by a number of powerful impressions. First, he was ...

Every night, the Earth is illuminated by billions of lights, which reveal the presence of humans to the universe and the secret of their activities and organisation to those who are informed ...

While it is difficult to pinpoint a single cause for the proliferation of planning conflicts in France, it is essential to take account of the perceptions and representations of stakeholders in defining ...

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 ...