The zombie post
So, that was one long break, wasn’t it. Last time I posted on this blog I had just defended my PhD, moved back to Lyon, and was in a University’s cafeteria waiting for a...
Sociology of mobilisations and geographical imagination
So, that was one long break, wasn’t it. Last time I posted on this blog I had just defended my PhD, moved back to Lyon, and was in a University’s cafeteria waiting for a...
Maybe the spatial turn doesn’t even have to be a “turn” at all. As the readers will now know, the aim of this blog is equally to present readings and conferences about the crisscrossing...
Be careful, there are substantial spoilers ahead from one of my favourite novels, Alain Damasio’s La Horde du Contrevent (Horde of the Counterwind / The Windwalkers in English, unfortunately untranslated yet as far as...
The epitome of a range of approaches in qualitative studies, the ethnographic interview is both a very widely employed method and one that appears to suffer from an increasingly lacking problematisation. Far from the...
One of the interests and difficulties of working with a concept like “space” is the extent to which its counter-intuitive dimension when compared to the common or everyday perception of it. Engaging in a...
This note is a summary of a presentation I gave on the 23rd of September 2016 at Cambridge University’s Department of Architecture’s symposium “Spatial Articulations of Collective Identities in the Context of Middle Eastern...
In this note I make some remarks on the concept of landscape as I have seen it used in geography through the work of one of its most notable English-speaking advocates, James Duncan. Contrarily...
This short post is a summary of the presentation “Mobilising place in several places, on translocal systems of interaction and mobilisation in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon” I got to give at the...
Foreword by Alex Mahoudeau: This note was sent to me by my friend Sylvain Mercadier. Sylvain wanted to summarise the work he conducted on his Master programme, on spatiality and identity in the Lebanese...
This is a short summary of a presentation I gave at the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) in Beirut on the 18 January 2016. The original presentation was rather long, I have...
This post was originally published in a previous version of this site, under the same title. It has not been modified. How do we conceive the problems we are facing in our everyday space?...