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Jardiner la ville néolibérale: la fabrique urbaine de la nature
No full textCette thèse traite de la nature en ville sous l'angle de sa fabrique, c'est-à-dire de l'agencement d'acteurs, d'outils et de discours qui concourent à la produire tant conceptuellement que matériellement. A travers une démarche ethnographique mobilisant la vidéo comme outil de recherche, elle s'intéresse à la mise en discours et en pratiques des politiques publiques de nature urbaine, et à la construction politique des rapports socionaturels en ville. Sur la base d'enquêtes de terrain menées dans le canton de Genève auprès de jardiniers professionnels et amateurs ainsi que de responsable administratifs, politiques et associatifs, ce travail fait l'hypothèse d'une néolibéralisation de la fabrique urbaine de la nature, et s'interroge sur la construction particulière de la nature qui la sous-tend. Elle ambitionne de comprendre comment les réformes néolibérales urbaines, qui mobilisent de nouveaux outils de gestion des services urbains et redéfinissent les relations entre services municipaux et société civile, construisent leur propre acception de la « bonne » nature. Cette thèse propose donc d'interroger, en partant des discours et pratiques des administrateurs et des jardiniers, la construction d'un rapport singulier à la matérialité dans ce qui est qualifié comme un régime urbain néolibéral
Afghan son(g)s: The role of music in the migration process
No full textMany Afghan musicians have been forced to leave Afghanistan and pursue activities abroad. Based on fieldwork conducted in the greater Geneva area, this research explores the role of Afghan music in maintaining and (re)constructing a sense of self and belonging for Afghan migrants. By following a young Afghan musician from the city of Mazar-I-Sharif and his group, I examine how music can be used to maintain ties to peers and bridge national boundaries. The research mainly focuses on musical events and explores music's potential to contribute to a sense of Afghan identity. It also considers the role of the internet and social media in bridging national boundaries, allowing people to follow fellow musicians' practice and the musicians to broaden their audience. The collection and analysis of empirical data is based on film as a research method. Therefore, participant observation with video and semistructured interviews are central to this study
L'évolution de l'identité ukrainienne suite à un tournant national
No full textCe travail traite de l'évolution de l'identité culturelle nationale ukrainienne depuis la Révolution de la Dignité de 2013-2014. La problématique est celle d'une analyse basée sur les productions culturelles de la musique et du cinéma, ainsi que de la représentation des artistes de l'identité ukrainienne
Imaginaires féminins de l'espace public: déclinaisons et diversifications spatiales à travers trois espaces publics genevois
No full textCe mémoire de Master développe les dimensions politiques de la géographie culturelle en étudiant les déclinaisons et diversifications spatiales d'imaginaires féminins de l'espace public à travers les pratiques de trois lieux publics genevois par des femmes âgées de quinze à vingt-cinq ans. Adoptant une approche constructiviste de la peur, je démontre comment l'essentialisation de la vulnérabilité en un attribut féminin, et la différenciation genrée de la peur de l'espace public, sont symptomatiques de relations de pouvoir dissymétriques socialement et spatialement. À travers l'analyse de dix-neuf entretiens semi-directifs, je vérifie si les possibilités de transgresser les normes de genre sont liées aux qualités de l'espace public fréquenté. De plus, j'observe par quels critères les femmes évaluent différents lieux publics, et développe finalement l'idée selon laquelle les peurs des femmes ne résultent pas uniquement d'expériences et d'observations concrètes, et sont principalement le résultat d'un long processus d'apprentissage de normes territoriales genrées
Linking up the Alps: how networks of local political actors build the pan-Alpine region
No full textThe signing of the Convention on the protection of the Alps (also called Alpine Convention) by the Alpine States in 1991 heralded new practices and perspectives. This transnational project is intended to solve important social and ecological challenges faced by the Alpine population, i.e. motorized traffic, ageing of the population, national fragmentation of politics, climate change, etc. Convinced that the Alpine Convention should fulfill its potential, some non-governmental organizations and some particularly active persons created several networks of local political actors to connect local representatives, researchers, managers of protected areas and ecological associations. These were designed to realize what the Alpine Convention was promising: a sustainable pan-Alpine region. This thesis endeavours to understand how and why local political actors, organized in pan-Alpine networks, chose to take mountain regions in general, and the Alps in particular, as the shared frame of reference for their involvement. It explores if and how a pan-Alpine identity detached from and/or combined with the more "traditional" national identities is developing among and enacted by local political actors engaged for the Alpine Convention. It also analyzes the nature and socio-political significance of local political actors' involvement in the newly constituted pan-Alpine networks
Islam and the secular: geography of religion and the making of family law in Aceh, Indonesia
No full textThis PhD thesis examines the productive exchanges about state law, Islamic law and customary law that took place between Islamic leaders and other societal actors during an administrative reform process in a Muslim society. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork between 2006 and 2010 in Aceh, Indonesia, in the context of the end of civil war (1976–2006) and post-tsunami reconstruction, the thesis examines the case of administrative reform in the field of family law, focussing on marriage registration. Civil marriage registration is vital for many women's legal status, which was contentious after war and disaster. The thesis investigates how law-making on marriage registration takes into account such social problems and how those relate to the expectations, political opinions and religious schools of Islamic leaders. The study argues that exploring the importance of Islamic texts is crucial to reconciling different legal perspectives, religious interpretations and claims to regulate family life in law-making processes
Not a geography of what doesn't exist, but a counter-geography of what does”: rereading Giuseppe Dematteis' Le Metafore della Terra
No full textThe shaping of geography as a discipline has been the result of a combination of productive and successful communication and missed opportunities, of presence and absence, of fluid travels of ideas and projects, but also of closures, impediments, good lessons that got lost. This paper suggests that using a counterfactual approach to draw attention to specific geographies that remained unfulfilled and poorly known helps to think beyond linear genealogies. By discussing a particular book called Le Metafore della Terra by Giuseppe Dematteis, published in Italian in 1985 but largely unknown in English-language geography, we reflect on what happened when it was published – and also specifically what did not happen and, cautiously, what might have happened. Inhis book, Dematteistook issuewithgeographyandgeographers' pastandcontemporarymistakes,suggesting that the depoliticization of geographical knowledge had served merely powerful interests, rendering the ima- gining of alternative worlds impossible. He picked apart sacred tenets of the geographical tradition: escapist fantasies of exploration and conquest, the poorly problematized use of scale, the faith in the power of carto- graphic reason, the metaphysics of organicism, and the magical belief in the power of the market. Here, by extending the idea of counterfactual histories to look inwards to the discipline of geography itself, we choose to engage with what might have happened if this particular critical approach to geography had become better known, exploring why this radical project for the discipline was cast aside, including by the author himself. In so doing, we consider how scholars are located in so-called ‘peripheral' places of production of geographical knowledge, discussing how this helps to understand the circulation and non-circulation of certain ideas. We use these alternatively rewritten geographies toshow how dominantlinearnarrativesof the emergingof critical thinking in the 1980s tell us an incomplete story, suggesting instead a tangled, multiple history of the discipline. We are interested in how scientific knowledge is communicated andreceived, how this exposes boththe multi- sited nature of knowledge production and circulation, and cultural and national differences in the reception of science, and what this says about the possibility of critical thinking and progressive ideas having real impac
Des états artificiels? Le retour en force des frontières naturelles et autres mythes géographiques et géométriques
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