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A bibliographic research carried out in 2019 shows that in recent years, geography, so far discreet in scientific publications on the energy transition, has become heavily involved in the research on this field, so that a geography of the energy transition has emerged. The analysis of the bibliography highlights three main fields of geographical investigation intermingled : landscape-planning-city, governance-actors-scales-territories, geopolitics-North/South relations-development. Some hot issues are tackled in numerous publications : local anchoring and the interconnections of actors, spatial modeling, energy justice, the specificities and comparative dynamics of energy transitions. Scientific debates focusing on these issues underline the need to deepen research to consolidate knowledge and fill the gap. The analysis of publications shows that in a few years, geography, whether alone or in relation with other disciplines, has been able to take an important part in research on the different energy sources, which has made it possible to produce knowledge on multiple geographic dimensions and issues of the energy transition, in a context characterized by interdisciplinary effort.

A process of public services restructuring is taking place in the French urban system. It has sometimes been qualified as “State retrenchment". This process operates in a context where the urban system's dynamic is both undergoing metropolization and shrinking processes. The Authors investigate the ways in which this process is organized for courts of justice from 2000 to 2016. They use the notion of ‘shrinkage'imported from the research field on shrinking cities. Here a differentiated retraction of courts in the urban system is assumed. It is shown that small towns, cities in decline, towns that have courts of the capital of a canton and sub-prefectures are more concerned with the retraction of courts of justice. The shrinkage of the Court of Justice system is part of the more general framework of the restructuring of public services organised by the succession of reforms in public action.

In the Anthropocene era, the transformation of material nature by societies is increasingly being assimilated. To describe this new situation, following the work of M. Serres and B. Latour, many studies suggest considering the contemporary nature as the result of hybridation of nature and culture. This statement is now increasingly being assimilated by the community of geographers to describe our contemporary situation. But what are hybrids and what is their place in geography? The Authors focus the analysis on how the concept finds its place in the environmental field addressed in geography by naturalistic or constructivist approaches and in a few related disciplines. This leads to four observations. (1) Geography has long demonstrated that the environment is made up of hybrids that can only be understood by placing them in space and time. (2) Naturalist approaches to geography remind us that these hybrids have a material dimension and that we can describe as hybrids not only the systems (geosystems, anthroposystems, socio-ecological systems) but also the elementary objects that make them up (sediment, tree, etc.) that are ontologically socionatural. (3) The terms regularly used must be clarified. We are not working on hybrids of nature and culture, but on hybrids between physicochemical, biological and social processes, and differentiation is more a methodological distinction than an ontological one. (4) The review shows that the project remains the study of phenomena that are social or biophysical or their interactions or a socio-political project focused on understanding the political forces that are at play in environmental issues and hybridization seems either implicit or obvious and remains a general frame of reference rather than a scientific and programmatic issue. Based on our research focused on the study of riverscape, the Authors show that our materiality is composed of objects that are hybrids by construction or metabolism. For this reason, the article proposes to keep an intradisciplinary space open in geography to articulate all the dimensions necessary for their understanding. By hybridizing geography, we hope to contribute to the defining of new research approaches in order to understand the production of contemporary materiality, which seems to us to be today's challenge.

The conventions adopted by the United Nations are part of a “globalization of rights” movement. The international dimension of these rights and their universal claim raises the question of their territorial registration. To examine this question, we will take the example of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CIDPH) which was adopted in 2006 by the General Assembly of the United Nations and ratified by many Party States since then. While states as well as many civil society actors have participated in its preparation, its reception is the subject of significant controversy, especially its article 12 on the legal personality of people with disabilities (Eyraud, Minoc, Hanon, 2018). In what territorial inscription does this controversy develop? How does this normative controversy influence nationally or locally ? We will show that the territorial anchoring of the human rights of people with disabilities is done through a “journey of rights” (Heyer, 2013, Baudot, Borelle, Revillard, 2013) which is not uni-directional but “Spiral” (Risse, Roppe, Sikkink, 1999).

This contribution, which focuses on the old people born in North-West Africa living in Aubervilliers, investigates the effectiveness of the notion of access to socio-administrative rights and its implementation at the local level as an institutional mechanism. It is part of the studies on relations to the administration of the working classes and the administration of the social services. It is based on a survey carried out as part of a social scheme related to the accompaniment of elderly immigrants in their administrative procedures. This study mainly shows that the elderly immigrant respondents have intensive relations and interactions with the administration, on which their essential rights depend. Access to rights should be read in terms of constraints and amenities, choices and strategies, and impacts on life experience. The administration sets temporalities and spatialities.