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This contribution aims at emphasizing Alain Dewerpes’s interest for the spatial and temporal dimensions of political facts. When he described the confrontation between the policemen and the demonstrators during the events of February 8th, 1962, near the subway station Charonne, the author produced a sensitive geography of the appropriation of the public place. Dewerpe paid attention to the “ordinary” knowledge policemen and demonstrators used in the confrontation, and to the specific gestures, noises, rhythm and location of an event, the massacre of Charonne. In this way, Dewerpe was innovative in a rarely explored field: the spatiality and the temporality of the collective mobilizations. more...

O presente artigo problematiza a utilização do conceito de território pelas ciências sociais, com destaque para a geografia. Tal uso diz respeito a questões políticas, sociais e de identidade, revelando uma modificação epistemológica das ciências no final do século vinte. Publicado originalmente em: VANIER, Martin (ed.). Territoires, territorialité, territorialisation. Controverses et perspectives. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009, p. 31-35. Agradeço imenso à profa. Ozouf-Marignier (EHESS) por conceder a publicação de seu artigo à revista Continentes. Tradução realizada pelo professor Guilherme Ribeiro no âmbito do Laboratório de Política, Epistemologia e História da Geografia (LAPEHGE/UFRRJ) como parte integrante do projeto A Geografia como Epistemologia Territorial, apoiado pela CAPES. more...

This article deals with tourist perception of the space from the end of the nineteenth century to our days. It compares three collections of French tourist guides: Guides Joanne, blue guides Hachette and Guides Verts Michelin. Three main periods can be distinguished. First, railway travel determines linear representation of the landscape, with a few glances on the countryside at the stations. In a second period, the car mobility makes possible a surrounding vision of regions. French school of geography influences the prefaces of the guides. Editors introduce more and more maps inside the guides. Regional cohesion becomes perceptible, especially from a naturalistic point of view. Interesting sights, museums, churches, castles and ruins remain important as well. Now, motorway, high-speed train and tourist industry transform practices and representation of the space. Tourists seem to enjoy collecting tourist sites and making circuits with themes. more...

No âmbito da renovação dos estudos sobre a história do pensamento geográfico, este artigo se opõe as interpretações que consagraram Paul Vidal de la Blache como um intelectual restrito às relações homem-meio e nostálgico da França camponesa. Uma leitura mais atent valiando a dinâmica sócio-econômica e seus impactos espaciais, a contribuição de Vidal de la Blache propunha, como solução para o futuro da França, uma nova regionalização do território nacional. Abstract This article presents a new perspective in the history of geographic thought, by opposing established approaches to Paul Vidal de Ia Blache as an intelectual restrict to relations man-environment and as a nostalgic of peasant France. A deeper reading of his work reveals a progressive passage from an initial "naturalistic" view to a socio-economic and urban-industrial approach. Through these economic impacts, Vidal proposes, as a solution for the future of France, a new regionalization of national temtory. more...