A-t-on encore (vraiment) besoin du territoire ?

Lévy, Jacques

doi:10.3406/espat.1993.3859

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“…Such work supports a generalized view in geographic literature according to which near things are more related than distant things [86]. Nuancing the equation of distance to Euclidean metrics, Lévy reminds us that humans have developed different ways of engaging with space, and that it should therefore be measured accordingly [87]. Because most studies focus on the making and the maintenance of interaction through space, I seek a different type of spatial relationship.…”

Section: Towards New Geographic Dividesmentioning

confidence: 54%

The geographic evolution of political cleavages in Switzerland: A network approach to assessing levels and dynamics of polarization between local populations

Koseki¹

2018

PLoS ONE

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Scholarly studies and common accounts of national politics enjoy pointing out the resilience of ideological divides among populations. Building on the image of political cleavages and geographic polarization, the regionalization of politics has become a truism across Northern democracies. Left unquestioned, this geography plays a central role in shaping electoral and referendum campaigns. In Europe and North America, observers identify recurring patterns dividing local populations during national votes. While much research describes those patterns in relation to ethnicity, religious affiliation, historic legacy and party affiliation, current approaches in political research lack the capacity to measure their evolution over time or other vote subsets. This article introduces "Dyadic Agreement Modeling" (DyAM), a transdisciplinary method to assess the evolution of geographic cleavages in vote outcomes by implementing a metric of agreement/disagreement through Network Analysis. Unlike existing approaches, DyAM offers a stable measure for political agreement and disagreementaccounting for chance, statistically robust and remaining structurally independent from the number of entries and missing data. The method opens up to a range of statistical, structural and visual tools specific to Network Analysis and its usage across disciplines. In order to illustrate DyAM, I use more than 680,000 municipal outcomes from Swiss federal popular votes and assess the evolution of political cleavages across local populations since 1981. Results suggest that political congruence between Swiss local populations increased in the last forty years, while regional political factions and linguistic alignments have lost their salience to new divides. I discuss how choices about input parameters and data subsets nuance findings, and consider confounding factors that may influence conclusions over the dynamic equilibrium of national politics and the strengthening effect of globalization on democratic institutions.

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Section: Towards New Geographic Dividesmentioning

confidence: 54%

The geographic evolution of political cleavages in Switzerland: A network approach to assessing levels and dynamics of polarization between local populations

Koseki¹

2018

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“…La séparation entre moyens de communication et moyens de transport constitue dans la perspective de la « convergence spatiotemporelle » la rupture la plus radicale de l'ère moderne, puisque la mobilité du corps humain est de moins en moins requise pour entrer en contact avec d'autres lieux géographiques (Giddens, 1987: 167-177). Dans tous les cas, on retrouve à travers ces conceptions une série de correspondances avec les travaux qui en France associent les thèmes de l'interaction sociale et des contraintes de la distance physique (Lévy, 1993) et qui s'interrogent dans une perspective plus sociologique ou anthropologique sur le couple réseau /territoire (Piolle, 1990;Chivallon, 1994). On retrouve également des affinités avec les travaux de Virilio (cité par Harvey, 1989 : 293) pour l'analyse qu'ils proposent sur la transformation de notre rapport au réel sous l'effet de la vitesse 16 .…”

Section: La Transformation De L'espace-tempsunclassified

La géographique britannique et ses diagnostics sur l’époque postmoderne

Chivallon¹

2005

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La géographie britannique a été traversée depuis la fin des années 1980 par un ample mouvement, qualifié de « ostmoderne », qui en a profondément bouleversé les orientations. Il est possible de ramener le postmodernisme à deux tendances principales. La première, dont la description critique est l'objet précis de cet article, consiste en une identification des caractéristiques de notre époque dont les attributs seraient différents de ceux de la modernité. Dans cette perspective, il est question d'enregistrer le passage à une logique culturelle de la dilution et du brassage des références en lieu et place de la logique moderne de la séparation et de la classification. Ce premier versant du postmodernisme continue de s'appuyer sur les outils classiques de la démarche scientifique. Il comporte cependant en germe l'idée que notre changement d'époque appelle un changement de nos modes de pensée. C'est précisément cette tentative de « penser autrement » qui constitue l'autre versant du postmodernisme en tant que rupture de la conception scientifique moderne. Sa description fait l'objet d'un deuxième article dans le prochain numéro de la revue.Since the late 1980s, an important current labelled "postmodern" has swept through British geography and deeply affected its orientations. Postmodernism can be summed up as two main trends. One, whose critical description is the main object of this article, consists in identifying the main characteristics of our epoch which are credited with attributes distinct from those of modernity. In this perspective, the aim is to diagnose the transition to a cultural logic of dilution and cross-fertilisation of references instead of the modem logic of separation and classification. This first side of postmodernism still makes use of the established methodology of scientific enquiry. However it implies the notion that to a new era should correspond new thinking modes. It is precisely this attempt at « thinking differently » which constitutes the other side of postmodernism as breaking away from the modem scientific concept. Its description will be the object of a second article in the next issue of the journal

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“…The reasons for a contemporary revisioning of maps and mapping are not difficult to detect. At a technological level, economic change, driven by advances in information processing and by new and highly flexible financial and industrial production systems, has reworked the experience, meanings, and measures of space, rendering boundaries of all kinds permeable (Lévy 1991). Indeed, the concept and practice of precise and categorical separation and contiguous spatial "fixing" inherent in boundary definition and conventional mapping (whose sine qua non is the bordering frame) represent an urge towards classification, order, control, and purification.…”

Section: Millennial Mapping and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%