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Holly[wine] or Wine in the American Cinema Eighty years after Prohibition, the United States of America has become the world's largest consumer of wine and the fourth largest producer. The role of the country is comparable at the world level to the role of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe : a hub within the wine-producing economy, with a leading role as taste-maker, with a remarkable effect of construction or transformation of the territories of wine. American cinema tends to reflect this new passion for the wine in the society. The whole point is to understand the discourse it holds, as well as the imaginary which it builds around this drink. Wine has become almost commonplace regarding its appearances on screen, not in what it means. In order to be more democratic, America seeks to get rid of old codes that rule all that surrounds wine.

Some Considerations toward a Geography of Social Economy Many topics related to Social economy are already studied within geographical research projects: governance and local development, places and rooting, local areas. However, only few publications have arisen in the field of geography, on this research topic. This text draws up a state of the art and suggests some avenues for a geography of social economy : firstly a process of enumeration, classification and mapping, secondly an interdisciplinary construction involving economy, sociology and political sciences, thirdly a new reading of interplay between the level of particular places and the global scale, and finally a review of the notion of durability including economic and social durability. The article suggests both the analysis of territorial models of the Third Sector in the current neo-liberal context, and the interpretation of the local interactions between the promotion of social and solidarity-based activities and public policy.

UNESCO World Heritage List Inscription and Tourist Development: The uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site (South Africa)2 We consider the changing tourism and management dynamics that occur when a site is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. We use the example of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg World Heritage Site (South Africa), a mixed natural and cultural property listed predominantly because of its beautiful southern alpine mountain scenery and its spectacular rock art. It was listed in 2000. This case study allows us to explore the gap between the tourism boom anticipated prior to nomination and actual post-inscription visitor numbers and management realities. Drawing upon the UNESCO nomination file, management plans and several field trips (between October, 2009 and October, 2011), we start with an analysis of the UNESCO inscription process and the expectations at the time of nomination. We then consider the evolution of the post-inscription tourist dynamics and discuss the reasons behind the low visitor numbers realised at rock art sites and the implications of this. Our comparative approach focuses upon the major rock art tourism sites and highlights the key importance of local tourism infrastructure and accessibility in determining visitor numbers. Moreover we see the direct negative effects of stakeholder failing to cooperate and failing to realise sustainable local community involvement. Besides the broad lessons that we can learn from this example we explore the ways in which stakeholders can be confronted and called upon to deliver on their UNESCO World Heritage List nomination commitments regarding tourist development. Finally we discuss problems inherent to the category of mixed property as established by UNESCO.

Touristic Identity of Destinations: Example of Two French Ski Resorts in Low Mountain Sites This study concerns the governance and the touristic identity of two ski resorts of Puy-de-Dôme department : the Mont-Dore and Super-Besse. Touristic identity lies in a choice of sports practices consistent with policy on communication initiatives and activity programmes. But it also implies coordination of the various actors around this defined identity. Results highlight differences between destinations studied. But especially, the construction of a single territory is not necessarily the wish of all actors, and in the end the two ski resorts remain rivals, each having its own tourist identity, the fruit of a long slow process of construction.

In Search of “Home”. Vincennes Woods, Inhabitable Spaces? In studying how the homeless live and survive in extremely precarious conditions, the question of “inhabiting” is very rarely taken up. Yet this question is essential if one wants to understand the situation of the increasing number of men and women in France who are without permanent housing. In Paris it is the Bois de Vincennes that shelters many of these people. Living in makeshift tents and cabins they have nonetheless taken charge of their own time and space, creating for themselves anchorage points that have some of the qualities of a “home” (chez-soi). Far from reducing their tents and cabins to mere shelters and means of survival, they have organized themselves to make them into dwelling places – in the strong sense of the verb “dwell” : inhabitable and inhabitable in common. The purpose of this article is to shed some light on these “limit-situations”, generally considered to be uninhabitable, and thereby enrich the understanding of the concept of inhabiting, which is playing a increasing role in the social sciences.