Géraldine Djament-Tran

University of Strasbourg | UNISTRA · Faculté de géographie et d’aménagement

Frontières, crise migratoire, tensions liées aux ressources, inégalités de développement, mondialisation et développement durable… Plus que jamais, l’appréhension de l’actualité repose sur l’analyse des phénomènes spatiaux et de la relation de l’homme à son environnement. Dans ce contexte, l’enseignement de la géographie joue un rôle essentiel pour...

Beyond issues to do with the defining of terms, the scientific and operational use of the concept of resilience is faced with several dilemmas:. -resilience of whom or of what?-short- or long-term resilience?-"top-down" or "bottom-up" resilience?Knowing whether or not resilience is occurring always depends on the scale used: should we look at the s...

At a time of crisis in metropolitan housing for ordinary people, this article uses the case of Plaine Commune to show that mobilizing people to promote the heritage status of social housing remains exceptional (“cité Meissonier” in Saint-Denis). Rather, the promotion of heritage is based on the views of experts (“cité Renaudie” at Villetaneuse), wh...

This article examines the diffusion of major cultural facilities (MCF) typical of the "creative" metropolization in working class neighbourhoods. The latter have until recently been used in hosting community cultural facilities. We will be crossing different case studies taken from Marseille (Alcazar Library), Roubaix (La Piscine Museum) and Plaine...

This article presents the major milestones in the circulation of Christaller’s ideas. Breaking off from the classic view of work that was completely ignored then later discovered, it returns to the complex epistemological debates that accompanied its spread from the 1930s to the 1970s. The article underlines Christaller’s break with the Landschafts...

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A fashionable concept, resilience is now a must in both academic research and management. However, its polysemy nourishes many debates on its uses, heuristics and operational relevance. The purpose of this article is not to bring these debates to a close. Starting from a cross-disciplinary state of the art, we point out the incompatibilities betwee...

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Conceptions of national unity through the choice of a capitalThe comparative study of the location of national capital cities is a problem of spatial analysis as well as a geopolitical issue, since the recurring scenarios reveal different political conceptions of national unity. Various scenarios are identified and graphically represented in this a...

Rome and globalization This article deals with the globalization as a process that is not exclusively an economic one, which merits a long-term approach. It analyses Rome as a place which has played an historic role in the construction of the global scale. It shows that after having contributed to unifying the “Ancient World System” under the Roman...

This article reflects on the epistemological and methodological issues related to a geographical interpretation of historical archives using a study of the debate on Rome as a capital (1861-1871). On the basis of the analysis of parliamentary Acts and of contemporary opuscules, geographical questions are posed such as « where (should the Italian ca...