Géohistoire/géo-histoire : quelles méthodes pour quel récit ?

Jacob-Rousseau, Nicolas

doi:10.4000/geocarrefour.7598

Cited by 25 publications

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“…This study combines historical and geographical approaches into one axial method that crosses temporal and spatial scales (Braudel, 1949), in order to explain the changing composition of the port city territories under investigation. This procedure allows to reconstruct both the structure and dynamics of Algiers' port-city interface, while providing a diachronic perspective of the landscape (Jacob-Rousseau, 2009). More specifically, our case study describes the evolution of Algiers' urban and port history through events that cross both domains, notably economic and political events, and their material and immaterial translations at the level of the port-city interface.…”

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Morphological Evolution of the Port‐City Interface of Algiers (16th Century to the Present)

Aouissi

Madani

Baptist

2021

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This article traces the centuries-long morphological development of Algiers’ port-city interface across four historically relevant time periods that together span from the dawn of the 16th century up until today. Through a diachronic and geo-historical approach, we identify and analyse the origins of Algiers’ persistent port-city divide. In doing so, the notion of the interface is interpreted as a spatial threshold between city and port, which nevertheless supports the material flows of both entities. As a multi-purpose area, the interface holds the potential to weave the disparate entities of a port city back together. To further complement this conceptual angle, we provide investigations of porosity that determine the differing degrees of connectivity between the city and port of Algiers. This is combined with a spatial-functional analysis of Algiers’ current port-city interface, which is ultimately characterised as a non-homogeneous entity composed of four distinct sequences. These results contribute to a better orientation of imminent plans for waterfront revitalisations in Algiers. Whereas the interface was long considered as some kind of no man’s land in the past, port and municipal authorities nowadays aim to turn the interface into a tool of reconciliation, and can do so by acting upon its potential porosity. Finally, this article’s critical examination of the previously neglected case of Algiers can and should also be considered as an applicable model for the continuing study of southern Mediterranean and African port metropolises in general, which share a particular evolution in the relations between city and port.

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Morphological Evolution of the Port‐City Interface of Algiers (16th Century to the Present)

Aouissi

Madani

Baptist

2021

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“…La géohistoire, terme apparu avec les travaux de Fernand Braudel en 1949 (Braudel, 1949) puis appliquée à l'étude de l'environnement et des paysages, est une approche qui a permis de saisir la profondeur historique et sociale des objets de nature et de réfléchir à leur gestion actuelle . L'analyse du paysage à travers une approche géohistorique cherche à décomposer le temps à travers des phases d'évolution caractérisées par des dynamiques spécifiques qui, par leur mise en récit, permettent d'identifier une trajectoire paysagère (Jacob-Rousseau, 2009). La trajectoire paysagère est alors définie comme une succession de paysages, révélateurs d'une relation à une période donnée entre une société et son environnement, dont l'analyse explicite les processus en oeuvre derrière les changements paysagers (Baud et Reynard, 2015) et qui permet d'identifier les temporalités d'un paysage et d'un anthroposystème (Valette, 2019).…”

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Reconstitution de trajectoires paysagères de zones humides littorales à l’aide de cartographies diachroniques : exemple des marais estuariens de Corsept

Paly¹,

Carcaud²,

Beaujouan³

2022

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“…La « géohistoire » et la « géographie historique » 6 ont une histoire ancienne mais ont fait l'objet de débats récents (GRAMOND 2014 ;JACOB-ROUSSEAU 2009. Pour ne citer que quelques jalons : en 2012 est créé la Revue de géographie historique par Philippe BOULANGER et Nicola TODOROV ; en 2015, Christian GRATALOUP, reconnu comme l'un des spécialistes de la question, publie un ouvrage intitulé Introduction à la géohistoire (GRATALOUP 2015) ; en 2016 se tient à Toulouse un colloque intitulé « Géohistoire de l'environnement et des paysages ».…”

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Representations of dams: infrastructures, concessions and controversies

Flaminio

2020

La Houille Blanche

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This paper synthesises the objectives, methodologies and results of my PhD thesis. As we observe the resurgence of dam building throughout the world, this research analyses the representations of dams and their spatial and temporal trajectories. Building on the literature of social and cultural geography on representation, and the writings of political ecology on discourse, the thesis confronted different sources (newspapers, interviews and archives), study areas (in France and Australia) and methodological approaches (quantitative and qualitative) in order to follow the discursive evolution of hydraulic infrastructure. The points of view of various stakeholders were also considered: inhabitants, engineers and hydraulic institutions, opponents to dams, administrations in charge of nature protection and scientists who produce environmental knowledge. From a methodological perspective, the dissertation highlights the limits in using certain material and illustrates the necessity to consider different sources in parallel. The results show the evolution of waterscapes, hydrosocial spaces and cycles – the gradual concessions made to environmentalists at the expense of hydraulic bureaucracies – but they also illustrate, on a broader perspective, the production and the flow of discourses on the environment – the decline of a Promethean discourse on nature and the multiplication of different and sometimes opposing representations of the environment – particularly during conflicts and controversies.

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Géohistoire/géo-histoire : quelles méthodes pour quel récit ?

Cited by 25 publications

References 4 publications

Morphological Evolution of the Port‐City Interface of Algiers (16th Century to the Present)

Morphological Evolution of the Port‐City Interface of Algiers (16th Century to the Present)

Reconstitution de trajectoires paysagères de zones humides littorales à l’aide de cartographies diachroniques : exemple des marais estuariens de Corsept

Representations of dams: infrastructures, concessions and controversies

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