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Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2023
Thematic issue on Decolonial gazes
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2022
Thematic issue on Flânerie
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2021
Thematic issue on Ecology
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2020
Thematic issue in the footsteps of...
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2019
Thematic issue on Alexander von Humboldt and other travellers
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2018
Thematic issue on travel writing seen in the perspective of Humanistic Geography
Le Globe 2017, Tome 157, 160 pages.
L'ouvrage examine le lien entre le paysage et le marcheur, sous l'angle perceptif, phénoménologiq... more L'ouvrage examine le lien entre le paysage et le marcheur, sous l'angle perceptif, phénoménologique et géopoétique. La marche dévoile le monde proche et intensifie notre lien avec la terre et le ciel. Elle est une activité du corps, mais aussi un approfondissement de la pensée. C'est cette-marche-démarche que notre ouvrage met en relief.
An anthology of travel writing about Geneva during the 19th and 20th century.
An anthology of literary texts on Geneva with comments. The book contains following sections : ... more An anthology of literary texts on Geneva with comments.
The book contains following sections : The spirit of Geneva, seing Geneva, tasting Geneva, living in Geneva. Published in a collection of literary guides over cities.
How Geneva, one of the top tourist destinations in the days of romanticism, saw its tourism evolv... more How Geneva, one of the top tourist destinations in the days of romanticism, saw its tourism evolve gradually from a leisure tourism to business and conference tourism How the tourist image of the city and its region has been represented in literature, travel guides and tourism promotion? The book also contains an on-site investigation of the hotels in Geneva, the contradictions between tourism and culture, and the major issues of land use and urban landscape next to the tourism of the future.
10 authors (geographers, sociologists, writers...) address of a city in complete freedom. They al... more 10 authors (geographers, sociologists, writers...) address of a city in complete freedom. They alternate scientific considerations and urban experience, city models and travel books, souvenirs and encounters. The cities covered are: Glasgow-Berlin-Brussels-Geneva-Lausanne-Lyon-Turin-Genoa-Trieste-Venice-Rimini-Bucharest-Lisbon.
Ten authors in search of an ideal city, almost all "specialists" (geographers, planners, writers,... more Ten authors in search of an ideal city, almost all "specialists" (geographers, planners, writers, philosophers and poets). A collection of travel reports, unique experiences alternating with landscapes of dreams, poetic views, souvenirs and encounters, but also scientific, theoretical models. During their urban wanderings, the authors also question the current city and what it represents for our society.
According to a biographical and existential problematic coming from humanistic geography, the spa... more According to a biographical and existential problematic coming from humanistic geography, the space of real life by Hermann Hesse is set in relation to the lived space of his fictional characters.
The book emphasizes the ecological consciousness of the author's way of representing the landscape
Humanistic Geography and literature ; phenomenology, existential geography ; European landscape, ... more Humanistic Geography and literature ; phenomenology, existential geography ; European landscape, humanist ideal and values.
This volume contains studies on tourism in Switzerland and studies on travel writings in Mexico, ... more This volume contains studies on tourism in Switzerland and studies on travel writings in Mexico, Italy and Armenia.
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2004
Link: http://www.persee.fr/issue/globe\_0398-3412\_2004\_num\_144\_1
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2002
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2023
Thematic issue on Decolonial gazes
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2022
Thematic issue on Flânerie
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2021
Thematic issue on Ecology
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2020
Thematic issue in the footsteps of...
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2019
Thematic issue on Alexander von Humboldt and other travellers
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2018
Thematic issue on travel writing seen in the perspective of Humanistic Geography
Le Globe 2017, Tome 157, 160 pages.
L'ouvrage examine le lien entre le paysage et le marcheur, sous l'angle perceptif, phénoménologiq... more L'ouvrage examine le lien entre le paysage et le marcheur, sous l'angle perceptif, phénoménologique et géopoétique. La marche dévoile le monde proche et intensifie notre lien avec la terre et le ciel. Elle est une activité du corps, mais aussi un approfondissement de la pensée. C'est cette-marche-démarche que notre ouvrage met en relief.
An anthology of travel writing about Geneva during the 19th and 20th century.
An anthology of literary texts on Geneva with comments. The book contains following sections : ... more An anthology of literary texts on Geneva with comments.
The book contains following sections : The spirit of Geneva, seing Geneva, tasting Geneva, living in Geneva. Published in a collection of literary guides over cities.
How Geneva, one of the top tourist destinations in the days of romanticism, saw its tourism evolv... more How Geneva, one of the top tourist destinations in the days of romanticism, saw its tourism evolve gradually from a leisure tourism to business and conference tourism How the tourist image of the city and its region has been represented in literature, travel guides and tourism promotion? The book also contains an on-site investigation of the hotels in Geneva, the contradictions between tourism and culture, and the major issues of land use and urban landscape next to the tourism of the future.
10 authors (geographers, sociologists, writers...) address of a city in complete freedom. They al... more 10 authors (geographers, sociologists, writers...) address of a city in complete freedom. They alternate scientific considerations and urban experience, city models and travel books, souvenirs and encounters. The cities covered are: Glasgow-Berlin-Brussels-Geneva-Lausanne-Lyon-Turin-Genoa-Trieste-Venice-Rimini-Bucharest-Lisbon.
Ten authors in search of an ideal city, almost all "specialists" (geographers, planners, writers,... more Ten authors in search of an ideal city, almost all "specialists" (geographers, planners, writers, philosophers and poets). A collection of travel reports, unique experiences alternating with landscapes of dreams, poetic views, souvenirs and encounters, but also scientific, theoretical models. During their urban wanderings, the authors also question the current city and what it represents for our society.
According to a biographical and existential problematic coming from humanistic geography, the spa... more According to a biographical and existential problematic coming from humanistic geography, the space of real life by Hermann Hesse is set in relation to the lived space of his fictional characters.
The book emphasizes the ecological consciousness of the author's way of representing the landscape
Humanistic Geography and literature ; phenomenology, existential geography ; European landscape, ... more Humanistic Geography and literature ; phenomenology, existential geography ; European landscape, humanist ideal and values.
This volume contains studies on tourism in Switzerland and studies on travel writings in Mexico, ... more This volume contains studies on tourism in Switzerland and studies on travel writings in Mexico, Italy and Armenia.
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2004
Link: http://www.persee.fr/issue/globe\_0398-3412\_2004\_num\_144\_1
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2002
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, t. 163, 2023, pp. 5-32., 2023
Introduction au Globe 2023 sur les "Regards décoloniaux"
Michael Jakob (Ed.). Des jardins et des livres. Genève : MétisPresses, 2018. p. 162-163. , 2018
Le rôle du jardin et du jardinage dans la vie et l'œuvre de Hermann Hesse The role of garden and... more Le rôle du jardin et du jardinage dans la vie et l'œuvre de Hermann Hesse
The role of garden and gardening in the life and work of Hermann Hesse
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2018
Ce texte fait dialoguer une littéraire et un géographe sur leurs pratiques respectives de l'écrit... more Ce texte fait dialoguer une littéraire et un géographe sur leurs pratiques respectives de l'écriture de voyage. Entre recherche de faits véridiques et création esthétique, le récit de voyage est envisagé tour à tour sous l'angle du langage, de la géopoétique, de l'appel du dehors, du parcours, de son rapport avec la carte et le terrain. L'article se conclut par son insertion dans l'enseignement et dans la recherche-création. Abstract This text is a dialogue between a literary scholar and a geographer on their respective practices of travel writing. Between the search for truthful facts and aesthetic creation, travel writing is considered from the angle of language, geopoetics, the appeal from the outside, the route, its relationship with map and field work. The article ends with its insertion in teaching and research-creation. Citer ce document / Cite this document :
In : Le Globe 2017, tome 157, 5-11.
In : Georges Amar, Rachel Bouvet et Jean-Paul Loubes, Ville et géopoétique, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2... more In : Georges Amar, Rachel Bouvet et Jean-Paul Loubes, Ville et géopoétique, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2916, pp. 89-107
Borges considérait Genève comme l’une de ses patries intimes. Il y vécut une partie importante de... more Borges considérait Genève comme l’une de ses patries intimes. Il y vécut une partie importante de sa jeunesse entre 1914 et 1918 et y fit plusieurs autres séjours, jusqu’à sa mort, à Genève, en 1986. L’article examine d’abord la contre-image que Borges va donner de Genève par rapport à la littérature hispanophone qui précède. Ensuite est dessinée la topographie mentale de Borges à Genève. Comment le plan de la ville est-il remémoré par le poète malvoyant à partir de 1955 ? Quels sont les lieux privilégiés de sa géographie existentielle, et enfin, l’image mythique que donne Borges de la cité de Calvin, correspond-elle à un archétype de ville ?
Mots clés : Borges, Genève, espace vécu, archétype, perception non visuelle
Abstract
Borges considered Geneva as one of his intimate homelands. He lived an important part of his youth between 1914 and 1918 there and stayed in it, up to his death, in Geneva, in 1986. The article examines at first the counter-image which Borges is going to give of Geneva with regard to the Spanish-speaking literature which precedes. Then is drawn the mental topography of Borges in Geneva. How is the city map restored by the souvenir by the visually-impaired poet from 1955? What are the privileged places of his existential geography, and finally, the mythical image which gives Borges of the city of Calvin, does it correspond to a city archetype?
Key words : Borges, Geneva, lived space, archetype, non visual perception
Key words : Geography and literature, literary end philosophical tradition in geography, Alexandr... more Key words : Geography and literature, literary end philosophical tradition in geography, Alexandre de Humboldt, Eric Dardel, methodological implications, city and literature in Latin America
Ideal urban square, Camillo Sitte, history, memory, identity of the public square ; contemporary ... more Ideal urban square, Camillo Sitte, history, memory, identity of the public square ; contemporary redesigning of Place des Nations, Geneva
The Urban Square is first considered as a place and even a high place of the European town. Crite... more The Urban Square is first considered as a place and even a high place of the European town. Criteria established by Camillo Sitte regarding the ideal urban square are then discussed from a morphologic and aesthetic point of view. These criteria are interpreted in the context of more contemporary functions and uses, and Sitte’s criteria are either validated or invalidated.
Keywords: urban square, ideal square, place, form, functions, uses, Camillo Sitte.
The notion of urban square is put at first in perspective with those of place, non-place and high... more The notion of urban square is put at first in perspective with those of place, non-place and high place. Having noted down the main functions of places (religious, civic, trade, residential, tourist, playful, festive), we replace the urban model of the European squares at the world level. The morphological criteria and the aesthetics of the ideal square according to Camillo Sitte are then discussed in the prospect of the contemporary use of cities. The urban square is then confronted with the model of the sustainable city. Several examples of historic places are reviewed according to these criteria: Campo of Siena, Saint Marc Square of Venice, the Dome Square of Cremona, and the Grand Place of Brussels.
Keywords: urban square, ideal aesthetics, Camillo Sitte, practice of places.
Epistemology, Jean Piaget, Kant, qualitative revolution in geography, landscape, contemporary pro... more Epistemology, Jean Piaget, Kant, qualitative revolution in geography, landscape, contemporary problematics, French and German Geographies, human and physical Geography, construction of a scientific object in geography
Human Geography and travel ; The debate traveler / tourist and stereotypes to avoid ;The evolutio... more Human Geography and travel ; The debate traveler / tourist and stereotypes to avoid ;The evolution of the meaning of the humanist and functionalist definitions of the trip; The evolution of the word "travel" ; The evolution of the meaning of the word "tourism"; Practice and psychology of "traveling".
Tourism and exclusion at the international (European) level ; history of the Swiss tourism model ... more Tourism and exclusion at the international (European) level ; history of the Swiss tourism model ; Tolstoï in Lucern ; contemporary Swiss tourism model and budget young tourists.
Tourist image, city branding, Geneva
The tourist image of Geneva analyzed through literature, travel guides and tourist promotion.
Sense of place (definition), literature and topophobia : the banks of Geneva ; the eye nearsighte... more Sense of place (definition), literature and topophobia : the banks of Geneva ; the eye nearsighted and farsighted on the landscape ; topophilic literature.
Key words : European City, culture, literature, Geneva
Geneva region. Cultural and literary identity, Stendhal, language.
Conférence inaugurale, Université de Gérone, 8-9 oct.2015
Conférence, Haute Ecole du Paysage, de l'Ingénierie et de l'Architecture, HEPIA, Genève, dans le ... more Conférence, Haute Ecole du Paysage, de l'Ingénierie et de l'Architecture, HEPIA, Genève, dans le cadre du cours de Sociologie de l'espace public, org. Blaise Galland
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2024
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2022
Book review. PhD dissertation.
Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, 2020
Roman policier sur la disparition d'un professeur d'université en Suisse, déprimé par l'évolution... more Roman policier sur la disparition d'un professeur d'université en Suisse, déprimé par l'évolution de son université. Inspiré d'un fait réel et hautement révélateur.
Detective novel about the disappearance of a university professor in Switzerland, depressed by the evolution of his university. Inspired by a real fact and highly revealing. Compte rendu/Book Review