Spatialising how?
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...
Sociology of mobilisations and geographical imagination
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...
I had the luck to be present at the 2017 AFS’s Congress to present some of my indings in French. Four very packed days during which many a great talk was given. I could...
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...
This review was originally published in the bilingual geographical journal Justice Spatial/Spatial Justice. Authorisation was given to me to reproduce it in here in its translated version, for English-speaking audiences. The book in question...
Although this is an interdisciplinary blog, the question of interdisciplinarity has hardly been discussed here. This note is the occasion of a short return on interdisciplinarity in practice, moving away from the classical methodological...
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 post is a summary of a public lecture given by Dr Neil Ketchley, from King’s College London’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies, on his forthcoming book Egypt in a Time of Revolution: Contentious...
During the last few weeks with DPhil Candidate Sophie Chamas from the University of Oxford we have been putting together a small call for papers for a workshop both of us felt could be...
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...
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...
Yi-Fu Tuan’s article is a long and developed essay which aims at proposing the conceptual bases of a humanistic perspective in geography. The humanistic approach in geography has often been alledged to be closer...
This presentation took place on the 24th of March 2016 in the context of an initiative recently launched by Beirut’s French Institute in the Near-East (IFPO), called “The Possibility of Beirut, Utopian Projections and...
This is a synthesis of the panel “From Humanitarian Global Strategy to Engaging the Local Context” given by at the AUB City Debates 2016 (other reports are listed here). The panel was composed of...
This is a synthesis of the panel “Living Refuge” given by at the AUB City Debates 2016 (other reports are listed here). The panel was composed of Pr Anita Fabos (Clark University, United States...
This is a synthesis of the keynote “From War Zones to Safe Cities: Humanitarianism, Militarization, and Displacement” given by Pr Jennifer Hyndman (York University, United Kingdom) and discussed by Dr Nikolas Konstantopoulos (American University...