This article analyses alterity construction in Ile De France through the example of Val d’Europe. It explains that it implied the French state, the Walt Disney Company and local and regional governments, as well as by present and future residents
, within the constraints of a contract based on French laws. It demonstrates that the Company’s investment benefited the region but did not lead to Disneyfication of the Briard landscape of agricultural lands in the Eastern Paris basin. It concludes
that the French state did not abdicate its authority in favor of commoditization of Paris as a global metropolis.
Alps (The) ; Biography ; France ; French school ; History of geography ; Twentieth Century
A direct disciple of Vidal de la Blache, Raoul Blanchard undertook doctoral research on Flanders and then devoted the remained of his career to the French Alps, where he headed the Institut de Geographie Alpine at Grenoble and edited the Revue de
to French readers. He held no academic qualification and never taught in a French university. However, he possessed an amazing memory and belonged to many scientific networks in France and abroad. His role as director of the Service de la carte geologique de
century, the French government embarked on a major programme of upgrading the old royal highways and other major roads and opening new ones. The manuscript maps and plans created in connection with this ambitious policy, assembled in the 65 bound volumes
now known as the Trudaine Atlas (L'atlas de Trudaine), have been widely admired both for their aesthetic quality and as repositories of information on French landscape history. Less attention, however, has been paid to their administrative role
in the management and maintenance of the French road network, and their power as tools of state, a situation this article seeks to remedy.
objectivity to subjectivity. The biggest influence on the development of cultural geography had German, French and American School. Since the 1980s views of the so-called ‘new’ cultural geography come to the forefront. - (IKR)
for Latin American studies in Paris that he headed. His position in French geography was transitional between Vidalian orthodoxy and innovations inspired by social sciences in the second half of the twentieth century. His legacy is both to regional geography
This paper engages with two emblematic cases—British rule over India and French occupation of Algeria, as they are presented in the “Nouvelle Géographie Universelle”, considering Elisée Reclus' analysis of imperialism and his novel critique
Aided with French and German scholarship, the paper takes stock of Lefebvre’s relevance in contemporary English-speaking urban research on social movements, postcolonial situations, the state, scale, gender, urban political ecology, regulation
Hugh of St Victor (1096–1141) and Anglo-French Cartography
have noted Hugh's influence, and Peter Barber has described a ‘third-stream’ of map making flowing from Hugh's concepts of mapping through the Munich Isidore map (c.1130) and into a group of important Anglo-French mappaemundi. This article shows how
Palaeo-paludification, environmental change and human impact during the Mid- and Late Holocene in Western Europe : the example of the La Prenarde-Pifoy mire in the French Massif Central
Climate ; Climatic anomaly ; Determinism ; Eighteenth Century ; Europe ; France ; French revolution ; Historical geography ; Little ice age ; Nineteenth Century ; Social crisis ; Subsistence crisis ; Weather type