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This article considers verticality as a result from a trajection, that means a fact of culture and a social building as a fact of nature, which involves our all « medial body ». Aiming to show the multiplicity of manifestations of this trajection, this article points at few fields of research in geography by exploiting « the Perspective of Experience » via an active ethnography of everyday-life. The first part describes from which physical and biological bases human beings traject verticality, and then studies its symbolic valorisations. More theoretical and political, the second part discusses three issues about conviviality of common and lived space at three scales: domestic micro space, urban landscape and finally gardens, agroforests and forests (around tree) construction.

Since the 1960s, Nancy and Metz forms a metropolitan cooperation area. Today, within the Metropolitan Pole of the Sillon Lorrain with Thionville and Épinal, cities are part of complex governance over a space that is still little integrated. Individual logics remain important. The “territorial recomposition” in action is based on a geographical and functional reality. The new prospects brought about by the recent reform of the regional map reinforce the stakes in the Sillon Lorrain, a major crossroads between France and Rhine Europe.

Since the 1980s, refugees from Sri Lanka have been living in France and make up the largest Hindu group. In recent years this migration, and more generally the South Asian migration, has radically transformed the French social landscape. In a context of dramatic growth in religious diversity, Hinduism represents not only a minority religious tradition but also a challenge to French laïcité. A new visibility/invisibility dialectical relation has also become a major issue. Although the presence of religion may be discreet and hidden, religious processions make a powerful comeback, such as Ganesh Caturthi organized by Sri Manicka vinayakar Alayam every year in the streets of Paris. I will tackle the changing dimension of religious questions in an urban environment through the articulation between immigration, religion and space. Between the local (the street, the « quartier ») and the global (transnational migration nexus), I will analyze space as a medium of social connections which shed new light on the reconfiguration of religion. Through the study of the internal multiplicity of Tamil immigration and of the localization of places of worship, this paper will explore the development of Sri Lankan Hinduism in Paris and its metropolitan region. I will also show how Hindus have to negotiate their status and sometimes transform their practices to be accepted by the host state.

In a context of general reform of public policies and of adaptation of the tool of Defense to new geostrategical pressures, military brownfields are becoming more numerous. In the past, the city used easily the land space on its fringes. While it is today trying to rationalize the urban network in the frame of sustainable development. It is more interested in its derelict lands and it tries to set up a logic of urban regeneration which could be applied to all these wastelands, whatever is the nature of their initial activities. Among these sites waiting for reconversion, the urban military wastelands could give real opportunities as part of regeneration by being renewed and so participate to the urban renewal. The article below proposes to consider how the military urban brownfields can an opportunity for the territory.

Recreational wayfaring, as a topic of geography, makes it possible to study the ways of managing uncertainty from the environment. The results of a qualitative study, including the techniques of direct practice and experience, show that body can act as a means of environmental knowledge and decision-making. A bodily creativity is then deployed. It invites geography to study sensitiveness with a new look that goes beyond the affective dimension, and to better understand the geographical and sociocultural challenges of recreational practices related to habitation and transmodernity respectively.

At the beginning of the 19th century, in France or in Europe, geography does not exist as a discipline in the scientific field. However, some figures start to show geography as a discipline and behave to act, so that geography can compete with natural history or history. This first institutionalisation is based on the foundation of a geographical community, which can meet in places and identify itself in key figures. Despite this desire, the first geographers do not create a real scientific program for geography. Their search for recognition allows them to partially found a discipline, but not a science. Regarding the French situation between 1800 and 1850, this paper aims to question an unknown moment in the history of geography, one of the first rushes for a geographical discipline and examines the epistemological ways of this movement.

Among the studies on natural risks, spatial transformations and local governance, the paper aims to analyse how flood prevention rules are implemented as political instruments to pursue gentrification, as if flood rules can justify high standing level renewal of old poor areas. Flood prevention rules and measures in some industrial-harbour areas are used to legitimate indirect gentrification. Arguing for collective security and necessity of growth, at the end, the city is strategically developed on flood prone areas. For instance, in Le Havre (France), even if the gentrification is clearly visible, there are no complaints. How can it be explained? Cities are more and more submitted to competitiveness, and even more if they belong to the industrial harbour cities that need to be visible at a worldwide scale. The city of Le Havre is a textbook to illustrate the challenges of declining industrial cities. To stimulate the competitiveness, Le Havre is capitalizing its heritage strengths through new urban projects. These rapidly developing urban areas in industrial-harbour zones bring wealthy new residents and businesses and promote a new face and image of the city, while threatening long-standing poorer residents. These urban projects invoke the heritage of the past maritime tradition, in order to reinvent an attractive landscape. Usually, this indirect gentrification comes together with protest movements, but the integration of risk prevention measures in the resilient urban project seems enough to justify the socio-economic upgrading of the area.

In 2015, following the Balkan road migration's historical peak, the Hungarian government shut down its common border with Serbia, turning Serbian space into a dead end. Despite the existence of 18 reception centers on the Serbian territory, young men from Afghanistan and Pakistan dwell in a non-formal camp located in the city center of Belgrade. Blocked in Serbia, these young migrants alternate between mobility phases and imposed non-mobility phases during their migration process. Written as a narrative, this article aims to describe the alternance between mobility and non-mobility phases.

This article aims to suggest a methodological approach for the conception of synthetic mental maps. Their goal is to put forward the spatial representations that are collectively shared by a social group. The presentation of the methodology and the elements it allows to highlight is based on researches on creative workers (artists, designers…) and their representations of their professional quarter. More than 100 creative workers from the Olivettes district of Nantes and the Panier district of Marseille were interviewed. Synthetic mental maps reveal the joint representations shared by these workers. The creative dimension of quarters and the boundaries that separate them from the rest of the city are identified as collectively shared elements in spatial representations of creative workers.

This article examines the epistemological and methodological issues involved in carrying out committed research on power relations around water in Chile. Through an exercise in reflexivity, I give a reflection and an analysis of my interactions with ethnographers at each stage of the practice of research : construction of the subject, entry to the field, collection of data then knowledge production. The politicization of the subject and the fact of being a young foreign woman explains both the complexity of my research and their heuristic wealth despite difficulties of access on the field.

In France, since the late 2000's, Industrial agreements of training by research (CIFRE) have increased for thesis students in Humanities and Social Sciences. However, it is a sensitive task for the student to find a balanced position between the academic and professional work, because having responsibilities and high expectations on both ends can lead to conflicts of interest. So how can research and professional activity conciliate in the framework of a CIFRE PhD? Through a specific "feedback" on the achievement of a PhD in the french public sector, we will question the main conflicts encountered in both the academic and the professional fields. We will see three major steps of the scientific production: the definition and treatment of the research object, the access to data, and the work restitution. Conflicts allow us to reveal what a Humanities and Social Sciences thesis can be, where lie its purposes are and what its distinctions from report or expertise are.Keywords : Action research, thesis, feedback, Humanities, Social Sciences, methodology

Collective gardens are multifunctional and deeply evolving spaces, they are part of the city dweller's daily life and promote their sensitivity. These specificities call for a methodology, combining several techniques of qualitative surveys. Through our two fields, the gardens of the Ile-de-France and those of the Kazan region, we aim to reflect on how the geographer can investigate a space linked to the geography of emotions. We also would like to interrogate the relationship of the researcher with this typical field.

The context which prevails in certain grounds of research complicates largely the work of the researcher. Based on an experience realized in Iraq in 2016 and 2017, this article suggests a reflection on the methods to adopt to guarantee the validity of a process of research in unfavorable situations.