Ontario K1 N 6N5, CanadaAmong the great variety of written documents that geographers use or reflect on, literature has gained considerable attention in the last 20 years. This interest in literature was first promoted in a bid to open geography to new fields and break up the monopoly of traditional sources. The rationale for resorting to literature has varied with time and theoretical frameworks. Geographers have considered the 'documentary' value of literary sources, sought to restore geography within the 'humanities', examined landscape perception or evaluated the didactic possibilities of literature. Various currents of the discipline have turned to literature in order to explore its relevance to different points of view: regionalists in search of more vivid description of place; humanists seeking evocative transcriptions of spatial experience; radicals concerned with social justice; others trying to establish parallels between the history of geographical and literary ideas; or more discursively-oriented researchers addressing the problems of representation. Nevertheless, the origins of the actual emergence of this field in geography reveals its originality within the human and social sciences.Many social and human sciences -certainly in France anyway -started to consider literature with greater scrutiny around the 1950s and 1960s in the wake of what has been referred to as the structural revolution. The emergence of structuralism and the parallel growth of social sciences have contributed to the intensification of the focus on literature. Putting language at the very core of these sciences -with linguistics as the 'guiding light' -structuralism has created an intellectual landscape favouring, as never before, interdisciplinary studies. Linguistics, semiotics, but also anthropology (which initiated the movement), psychoanalysis, philosophy and sociology, and others, followed suit. Within the emergence of this 'new paradigm', considerations on discourse, textuality or other semiotic systems became more frequent, often with a particular focus on literary productions. It is worth noting that within geography -which was rather slow or even reluctant to follow in this continental or French intellectual trend up until the mid-1970s
RésuméDifférentes thèses s’affrontent quant au rôle politique des médias. Le centre-ville de Hull, où la géographie et l’histoire ont amené la concentration d’un nombre imposant de lieux de consommation publique d’alcool, ce qui a entraîné son lot de désordre, de débordements festifs et d’activités « criminelles » variées, fournit l’occasion de les confronter. L’analyse des 1 124 articles qu’a consacrés le quotidienLe Droità cette question entre 1980 à 1999, éclairée par un ensemble d’entrevues auprès des acteurs dans ce dossier, illustre comment celui-ci s’est inséré dans le processus décisionnel entourant l’usage des lieux, en le provoquant, l’accélérant et le légitimant.
RésuméÀ trois reprises au cours du siècle dernier, la situation frontalière de Hull, entre l’Ontario et le Québec, a concentré en des points précis de son territoire un nombre important de débits d’alcool et donc une mouvance sociale (à la fois festive et « criminelle » ou tout au moins interlope) qui est devenue intolérable pour les élites locales. Le présent article fournit une interprétation géographique et historique de ces trois cycles d’ordre et de désordre urbains. Informé par les réflexions théoriques récentes sur le lieu, il interprète l’espace festif de Hull à la fois comme résultat contingent de processus divers, médiateur des relations sociales et foyer de représentations qui ont participé à la dynamique de ce lieu sous tension. Enfin, en inscrivant son analyse dans le cadre d’une géographie frontalière, il met en lumière le caractère unique de Hull, ville située au contact des populations francophone et anglophone, québécoise et ontarienne ayant eu, de longue date, des attitudes culturelles bien différenciées en matière de consommation publique d’alcool.
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