Le Conte de deux cités1 : Analyse comparative des conflits urbains de Montréal et Valence, 1995–2010

A tale of two cities: 9 Comparative analysis of urban conflicts of Montreal and Valencia, 1995–2010 Metropolization processes at work in contemporary societies produce social and spatial change, which can raise strong opposition from a variety of urban actors, leading to acts of dissent. While such urban conflict has been examined in the past, geographical analysis of urban conflicts as sociospatial processes is more recent. Systematic quantitative research on urban conflict is virtually nonexistent in terms of comparative analysis conducted with an international perspective. Systematic comparative analysis sheds light on the existing relationship between urban conflicts and the socio‐territorial contexts in which conflicts emerge and evolve. This article presents a comparative analysis of urban conflict that occurred in a selection of boroughs in two cities characterized by different geographical realities, Valencia (Spain) and Montreal (Canada), between 1995 and 2010. Spatial autocorrelation techniques applied to a conflict database show a significant relationship between the emergence of urban conflict and the spatial distribution of some contextual variables. Indeed, for Montreal as for Valencia, the concentration of urban conflict is the greatest in the most deprived neighbourhoods. Also, regarding the management and regulation of urban conflict, results shed light on important differences between Montreal and Valencia. These differences include the outcome of urban conflicts, repertoire of action of actors involved in conflict activity, and the type of contestation faced by actors who promote the challenged urban projects.     

Les serranos et le pont de Capilla au XVème siècle

Despite a few pioneering studies into transhumant raising in the kingdom of Castile much work in this field has yet to be done. We are acquainted with its general organisation but more rarely with its local manifestations. On the whole we know of the revenues it yielded to the Crown but less of those it delivered to the lords. It was during a lawsuit brought by the Mesta at the end of the fifteenth century against the lord of Capilla, whom it accused of imposing illegal taxes upon the migration of the winter herds across the Capilla bridge on their way to the Extranadura of the south, that a rich documentation was collected by the incriminated party. This documentation holds a twofold interest for us: first it informs us about the region of origin of the animals which followed this migration, the number of herds involved, their composition and their owners and shepherds; second it gives us knowledge of the revenues which a lord could extract from the collection of taxes imposed on the migration, or transhumance, itself.     

Dola Angèle Aguigah: Archéologie et Architecture Traditionelle en Afrique de l’Ouest

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Le Jamboree Scout de Moisson, 9-20 aout 1947

Du 9 au 20 aout 1947, a Moisson en region parisienne, eut lieu le VIe Jamboree mondial, grand rassemblement de la branche adolescente (12-17 ans) du scoutisme. Baptise 'Jamboree de la Paix', son enjeu fut de promouvoir la fraternite comme ideal scout, de donner une image du mouvement positive et dynamique. A l'epoque ou le monde basculait inexorablement dans la guerre froide, le Jamboree dissimula les antagonismes derriere la facade d'une fraternite que la multitude des delegations tendait a justifier. Largement subventionne par les pouvoirs publics francais, le Jamboree fut certes, un lieu de rencontre ou la methode scoute put s'e panouir en de nombreuses activites a l'abri du monde exterieur, mais quelle identite y proposa-t-on aux adolescents des 52 nations representees?