Le Quartier: Étude Géographique Et Psycho-Sociologique

Les problèmes de la vie sociale en milieu urbain doivent être étudiés non dans un espace géographique au sens étroit, ni dans un espace social indépendent de l'espace géographique mais dans un espace socio-géographique qu'il importe de définir pour chaque agglomération. (P.-H. Chombart de Lauwe, Des hommes et des villes , p. 41)     

L'église d'al-Qousour Failaka, État de Koweit

In 1989 a French team conducted excavations at the site of al-Qousour on the island of Failaka, State of Kuwait. The excavations resulted in the discovery of a Christian church complete with two crosses made out of stucco. The building and its contents are described, and a preliminary attempt is made at determining the period of Failaka's evangelisation and of the flourishing of Christianity there.     

WHO TALKS TO WHOM: ÉLITENESS AMONG THE WORLD'S NATIONS

International standing is always relative. To T.A. Mits in Toronto, New York, or Moscow it's the clan in Parliament, the White House, or the Kremlin who are the aristocracy. And it is the study of who talks to whom among the world's nations that provides insights into which countries constitute the nobility of the international power structure. Those nations making critical decisions in the political arena and directing the course of history are those who are 'more equal than others' at the United Nations or Geneva peace talks.     

RÉSEAUX ÉLECTRONIQUES ET ESPACES JURIDIQUES: EXPÉRIMENTATION EN NORD-PAS DE CALAIS

La région administrative du Nord-Pas de Calais mène dans le cadre d'un programme de développement européen une politique volontaire en matiére de NTIC. Ces expérimentations ont conduit l'auteur à l'étude des rapports sociaux réticulaires, donné sociologique qui permet d'inférer des difficultés juridiques pour l'expansion régionale, sur son territoire comme dans ses rapports avec ses tuteurs. Les expériences en cours ont pour effet un déplacement de et dans l'espace social, induisant une réorganisation juridique.
As part of a European-wide expansion program, the administration of the Nord-Pas de Calais region has initiated a voluntary policy regarding new technologies in information and communication. These tests have led the author to analyze social relationships occurring on networks. This social interaction allows one to infer the legal difficulties of regional expansion within the territory and within relationships with tutelary authorities. The tests currently in progress lead to shifting of, and within, the social framework, bringing about legal reorganization.     

LES UNIVERSITÉS ET LEUR GÉOGRAPHIE: RÉFLEXIONS ET ÉTUDE D'UN CAS

"Une grande part de I'hostilité de l'opinion publique vis-à-vis de l'université résulte de la longue et tenace indifférence de cette dernière pour les problèmes de son espace et de sa région." (J. M. Klotsche, chancelier de l'Université du Wisconsin à Milwaukee)     

The correspondence between Élisée Reclus and Pëtr Kropotkin as a source for the history of geography

The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) contains a corpus of around one hundred letters sent by Élisée Reclus to Pëtr Kropotkin between 1882 and 1905. The correspondence is mainly concerned with their geographical works, notably the collaboration of Kropotkin with the Nouvelle Géographie Universelle (1876-1894) and the Brussels edition of Kropotkin’s Orographie de la Sibérie (1904), edited by Reclus. In this paper, we deal first with the importance of this source: it is an example of the material work of a network of geographers who were at the same time the founders of the international anarchist movement. We suggest the correspondence falls into two parts: the first period (1882-1886) when Reclus was in exile in Switzerland after the Paris Commune of 1871, and Kropotkin was in prison in France; and the second period (1888-1905) when the two anarchist geographers discuss the role of geographical education, historical geography in Europe and its part in the globalisation of their era. The archive also contains significant evidence of their relationships with British geography: Kropotkin lived in London and joined the Royal Geographical Society and was on familiar terms with leading Fellows, such as John Scott Keltie and Halford Mackinder. The paper addresses the significance of the correspondence for understanding the relationships between geography, politics and public education, and the role of these heterodox geographers in the construction of geographical knowledge. The paper is accompanied by the publication, for the first time, of an edited selection of the letters.