The concept of ‘religious landscape’ cannot be confused either with that of a cultuel landscape (the integration of cultuel practices and pathways into the building blocks of a landscape) or with that of cultural space (the structuring of a social space through the dissemination and prioritisation o...

The environment and sustainable development have received unprecedented political and social attention during the five years Sarkozy: proactive statements, ambitious reforms, etc. However, the overall interpretation of reforms and policies should not be limited to an analysis of the proactive politi...

While self-efficacy appears as a main behaviour’s explanatory variable, little research has been conducted regarding the potential mechanisms that could improve self-efficacy in the specific context of marketing communication. Moreover, despite the strong stakes linked with organ and gamete donation...

The aim of this socio-evaluation research was to assess the impact of the margro-twinning intervention and to identify the particular social dimensions of the customers served by the Relevailles Group. This body provides psychological support to mothers seeking assistance following adaptation diffic...

This PhD thesis deals with gender and education, more specifically investigating schools and schoolteachers. This research examines primary schoolteachers’ representations of their female and male pupils. Data have been drawn from the teachers’ portraits of their pupils. With reference to two theore...

The representation of the comic writer in the museum field inevitably leads us to the question of the symbolic representations which the museum is involved in building and disseminating to the public. In recent years’ scientific literature, it is common to meet the sociological model of artification...

This masterpiece focuses on the integration of women into politics in Burundi. More specifically, it analyses some of the obstacles which limit the descriptive and substantial representation of women in politics in Burundi. Women have been increasingly involved in the country’s governance since the...

This scientific volume of Habilitation in Diriger des Recherche summarises the work carried out in the four research laboratories where I have carried out my research since the end of the thesis: the Frontier Research Center for Global Change (FRCGC, Yokohama, Japan), the Centre d’Etudes Spatiales d...

The representation of the prison universe plays a considerable role in the genetian work, both intra textual — the prison is the writing matrix of a number of pieces or novels — but also at the extra-textual level, since the prison is an integral part of the genetian legend. Between literary omnipre...

Whether royal lily or Christian cross, the space of medieval towns is characterized by the marks placed on it by medieval institutions.At the end of the Middle-Ages, the new urban elites make the process of marking the city their own by imposing their own signs onthe public space. Thus, they assert...

This article intends to study the (de) construction of living places in the Battlestar Galactica series (Sci-Fi/Sky One, 2003-2009), mobilising resources from urban planning, urban sociology and narratology. At the other end of the galaxy, the series presents people, the ‘settlers’, who see the plan...

International audience Les littératures africaines, par la seule adjonction de cet adjectif, n’existent comme telles qu’en référence à ce continent. Lui-même se distingue des autres par un ensemble de caractéristiques qui sont toujours en débat. Lors du premiers Congrès international des écrivains e...

Pendant des siècles, les montagnes sont considérées comme des endroits à éviter. La naissance de l’alpinisme comme discipline sportive est ainsi, en premier lieu, conditionnée par un changement de représentation des montagnes : comment passe-t-on de la vision d’une montagne fondamentalement inhospit...

The information system is becoming the hub for steering organisations facing a complex environment. The informational dimension of the various activities, the strategic nature of information, the involvement of stakeholders, the central question of organisations’ remembrance, the impact of digital t...

The index problem is to calculate the index of an elliptic operator in topological terms. This problem was solved by M. Atiyah and I. Singer in 1963 in "The index of elliptic operators on compact manifolds". Few years later, these authors have given a new proof in "The index of elliptic operators I"...

The unplanned February 1848 insurgency gave rise to a Republic. But what exactly is meant by the word? Looking to soap discussions, this issue is the subject of public debates, demonstrations and clashes, especially in the streets of Paris. There are two opposing views on the part of the Republic. O...

The author is interested in the progressive ‘heraldisation’ of the book: handwritten coat of arms and books remain key elements of culture and elite representation for a long time and are inevitable. Heraldic appearance in the book is very early (last third of the 12th century). It is quickly found...

The urban society seems to have invaded all areas which nullify the purpose of France’s rural sociology and ethnology. These disciplines were made up of a frank urban/rural cut, reserving to urban the canonic vocabulary of sociology such as the analysis of social classes. An ad-hoc conceptualisation...

Flood risk management has evolved from a structural approach to a non-structural policy supported by graphical tools (including maps), present at all stages of the flood risk management. However, although they are among the best tools for representation, communication and decision-making, these maps...

the analysis of 19 interviews with students from popular backgrounds highlights a relationship to multifaceted work, which focuses on the expressive and instrumental dimension of the desired professional activity. The role of the expressive dimension lies very much in the student status of the super...

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The international standardisation crisis is not a purely technical crisis linked to a misapplication of the fair value criterion, but an intellectual crisis linked to the conceptual framework and the underlying episteman. This framework, from which international standards are based, is in itself a f...

by looking at the differentiation processes that could characterise metropolitan and regional public action, it is difficult for young people to avoid questioning the challenges of democracy. However, the approach is complicated to take, not least because of the multiplicity of interpretations it su...

'titrebSummary’/titrebThe failure of the New Antiapitalist Party (NPA) project raises questions that go beyond the party’s own history. This story questions all militant who now thinks it is necessary to build a new anti-apitalist political force. Was it possible to think of building this new force,...

[This abstract can be sent in English] The history of the European trade union movement of the last century has been marked in particular by a shift, which is more or less slow between countries, from a low dominant mode of activity to class collective action, towards a position of intervention and...