This paper justifies “le traverser” as a scientific notion ; it argues that it can be defined as the social validation of spatial practices organized a posteriori. ”Le traveser” is a process of social “substantivation” that treats the distance traveled as a spatial unit. With examples from various scales and cultural materials, ...
International poor migrants have understood that they are not welcome in rich countries. Most of them — around 200 000 a year in France and 600 000 in Europe (OCDE 2013) — ...
Fiction films and television series shot in the Bordeaux area are the corpus of study of this article. Their study provides a crossing of the urban area rooted in history. The tradition ...
The crossing of the Aubrac plateau is very much appreciated by all hikers/pilgrims going to Santiago de Compostela. This paper uses a collection of pictures as scientific material to study the landscape ...
À partir d’œuvres d’art contemporain produites autour du mur construit par les Israéliens face à la Cisjordanie, le texte traite à la fois de la question de la traversée de la frontière ...
For many international migrants coming from West and Central Asia and heading for Western Europe, the Black Sea is a reference space. This paper specifically discusses two groups : the Balotchis from ...
Crossings are the more often identified when they are successful, that is to say when the act of crossing a defined obstacle so as to reach a spatial entity considered a posteriori ...
This paper is based on the study of leisure and tourism practices in natural spaces and interstices. From this starting point, it examines how dissidences, which fluctuate between games and transgressions, contribute ...
This work is about the “traverser” as a scientific notion. It is understood as the stacking of rhythms and spatial figures. Building a relation between space of departure and arrival through a ...
Supposedly fluid, continuous and transparent, contemporary societies are in fact societies which divide, separate and cross boundaries. Micro-geography focuses on the numerous transformations that are part of daily life and have generated ...