Participatory housing is apprehended in this book as much by a sociology of the city, as a relation to space and to others, as by taking into account public action and aspirations to limit the processes of individualization peculiar to our contemporary societies. It is the result of a team formed in 2013, the dynamics of which are based on the desi
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Abdelhafid Hammouche
Observing its division and distribution enables to bring light on the way wealth is shared and to realize how societies function. It draws special attention to the monopolization by some of resources and privileges, and the socio-spatial inequalities that result from it.
Approches socio-spatiales croisées dans le Minas Gerais et le Nord-Pas de Calais
Pauline Bosredon, Frédéric Dumont
This is the translation of the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them. Since the 1980s, American sneaker enthusiasts have created a distinctive identity for themselves. How have sneakers come to gain this status and what makes them fashionable? In what ways are sneaker subcultures bound up with gender identity and..
Mode, genre et masculinité, du Bronx à la marchandisation
Yuniya Kawamura
Marc Jamois, Romain Ravel
Water flows everywhere ; it is essential for life. However, potable water, esential for mankind is not naturally located where men get together. As water only flows and renews itself continuously, men think to be able to control waterways. But which one does control the other ?
L'illusion humaine de la maîtrise de l'eau
Francis Meilliez
Is self-employment the best way to balance work and family life ?. This argument has been widely used to promote business creation among women. This research aims at debunking this myth through the Mompreneurs' case.
Entreprendre pour concilier travail et famille ?
Julie Landour
Human memories – those of our societies, collective or individual memories – are changing in a world in great acceleration and production of new knowledge. Can these plural memories preserve everything, be at the same time witnesses, memories, resources and reflections of our time in a world itself in transformation?
Moïse Déro
This book aims at reconsidering the coupling between autonomy, an undisputed ideal of modern individualistic societies, and dependency, as seen as its negative opposite.
Injonction des politiques sociales ou fabrication collective
Barbara Rist, Sylvie Rouxel
With their multiple forms of social, ethno-religious or political fragmentations, divided cities belong to the reality of the modern world and find their fictional expression in different imaginary ways. Despite the omnipresence of urban divisions in contemporary life, the analysis of literary and cinematographic representations of divided has ...
Récits littéraires et cinématographiques
Véronique Bontemps, Franck Mermier
São Paulo, San Francisco, Rome ... Northern or Southern Metropolises have to deal more frequently with the lack of water. The 4 million inhabitants of Recife, Brazil, have been facing failures of the public network for several decades: tap water is often lacking and its quality is not assured. Residents have organized themselves in order to cope...
Le cas de Recife – Brésil
Paul Cary, Armelle Giglio
Why do you use this object this way ? Why are there objects that truly belong to us and others that don't ; What do we do with them ? When, where, with or against who, why and what for ? That set of questions sums up this book : the study of our inner and proper relationship to objects in daily life.
Enquêtes sur la vie quotidienne
Valérie Sacriste
Comment enseigner des pratiques autodidactes ?
La transformation d'une pratique musicale
Rémi Deslyper
Evocative image, coveted object, power issue, the map draws the world. Apart from the geographers-mapmakers, many searchers stimulated by its representation use it to answer some questions of today's society.
Patrick Picouet
Why are human and social sciences so disputed or ignored in places where they could enlighten reflection and action ?
Controverses et polémiques
Sophie Richardot, Sabine Rozier
It is primarily through discourses that individuals, social groups and institutions proclaim, use and reconfigure their identities (individual, social, professional, political, national, ethnic, etc.).
Analyses interdisciplinaires
Thierry Guilbert, Pascaline Lefort
Political speeches and the media are full of clichés and stereotypes about young people from poor suburban neighborhood. Contrary to those unsubtle constructions, this book focuses on girls and boys sociability in order to restore their day-to-day complex reality.
Eric Marlière, Carine Guérandel
Daily action by excellence, eating is a highly cultural, symbolic and social act because it presupposes, even before that food is consumed, incorporated, a real work of food culturation, - i.e a material, social and cultural work.
Philippe Cardon
At the turn of the 19th / 20th century, the concept of "research field" appeared within the humanities and social sciences in both Germany and France.
Jean-Louis Georget, Gaëlle Hallair
Secrets are inevitable and dangerous. Thus, the rules governing the secret must be carefully formulated. Everyone is concerned.
Jean-Paul Delahaye
