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Campos, Christophe. "Evolution géodynamique des Klamath orientales (Californie, Etats-Unis) au Paléozoi͏̈que inférieur : sa place dans l'histoire de la marge occidentale nord-américaine." Orléans, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995ORLE2075.
Full textBeaubeau-François, Anne. "La minorité hispanique en Californie : aspects sociaux et culturels." Pau, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PAUU1004.
Full textDannenmüller, Sophie. ""California assemblage" : récupération, contestation, tradition." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010530.
Full textDavenport, Lila. "Le programme AVID (advancement via individual determination) et l'accès au système universitaire américain des minorités sous-représentées dans le supérieur (étude centrée sur l'école Mar Vista High School en Californie du sud)." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040156.
Full textLefebvre, Hugo. "Géopolitique d'une crise économique : subprimes et saisies immobilières dans la vallée intérieure de la Californie." Paris 8, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA083869.
Full textThe economic recession that started in 2007 is the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s and had worldwide consequences. In the United States, millions of American lost their home in foreclosures and several cities filed for bankruptcy. Despite its demographic profile, the California Central Valley is one of the regions that suffered the most from the foreclosures nationwide. The purpose of the dissertation is to identify the mechanisms of the crisis at different levels of analysis, in order to understand the extent and the impact of the crisis in the Central Valley. Deregulations at the federal level allowed banks to create subprimes loans that were securized as financial products, generating the crisis. Since 2007, millions of Americans failed to reimburse their loans because of the sudden increase of their mortgage interest rates and the drop in their home values. They went underwater and couldn’t sell their property to pay back their credit. As a result, many people have been foreclosed or simply left their home. In the Central Valley, the political fragmentation of the region increased rivalries between the State and local administrations to attract new fiscal resources. This competition fueled the urban growth and subprimes loans proliferation, explaining foreclosure development in the region. The economic crisis also contributed to developing conflicts. The allocation and distribution of the funds to deal with foreclosures provoked disagreements at both local and federal level. Power rivalries between political actors therefore played a major role in the development of the crisis in the California Central Valley, and its consequences
Ulloa, Marie-Pierre. "Du Maghreb à la Californie : trajectoires migratoires, récits d'intégration." Paris, EHESS, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EHES0015.
Full textThis research focuses upon the history of Maghrebi immigration to California. It takes the form of a sociocultural monograph drawing from the narratives of Maghrebi migrants living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley, where migrants navigate between three cultures (Maghrebi, French and Californian) and span three generations (Baby-boomers, Generation X and Millennials). For these expatriates, the conditions under which they left North Africa have profoundly shaped their ability to adapt to life outside of North Africa. Furthermore, integration into Californian culture looks dramatically different depending on the milieu into which the expatriate seeks to integrate (e. G. , public service or the domestic sphere) and the one's mode of entry (via professional networks or volunteer work). Ultimately, this replication and re-invention of identity allows for a decryption of the Maghrebi community-building process, both at home and abroad. Regarding the question of intergenerational transmission, cultural repositioning recalls first and foremost the "bricolage" of one's plural identity. In addition, it invites an invention of new modes of interaction with one's homeland, and with one's religious affiliations, whether it is the case of Muslim emigration or the Sephardic minority relocating into a local Jewish population. Whether Maghrebi immigrants devote themselves to integrating into American culture or select to explore the diasporic dimension of their journey, a desire to maintain Maghrebi heritage, and to transmit it from Maghrebinity, is at work here. It is also important to consider that some North Africans claim the right to not-belong, and the emigrant's right to re-invention—yet another notable and multivalent iteration of the Californian dream
Glaub, Dominique. "La pratique New Age du tarot en Californie du Sud, une nouvelle forme de re-ligiosité : approche imaginaire et néo-tribale d'un jeu de cartes figurées." Paris 5, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA05H042.
Full textEmpirical objective : To approach the tarot as a cultural object. To present the multi-facets of the modern divinatory practice and its "baroque style". To show that the tarot is, in a new age californien setting, a tool for individual transformation participating to the collective project of bringing the aquarion age and a new spirituality methodological objective : to use a historical and imaginary approach of a cultural object and a contemporary social practice (to use micro-sociological methods of research seen as (interviews, life histories observant participation)). To shedy "from the inside" a social form. To "become the phenomenon" theoretical objective :. To describe a neo-tribal community (organized as a social network) in which the "affect", the "informel", the "proxemique", and the "ephemenous" are the dominant values. To see in the tarot a "sur-adaptation" to modernity, a social contestation, and an social force of innovation
Figueiredo, Yves. "Du monumentalisme à l'écologie : politique et esthétique de la nature en Californie, 1864-1916." Paris 7, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA070006.
Full textWhen they created the world's first national parks, the United States seemed to have designed a coherent and revolutionary politics of nature. However national carks are not quite natural parks: as the name suggests, the central notion is that of nation. The creation of the first national parks is a phenomenon which is at once political and cultural since it deals first with heritage. Although national carks are physical entities, i. E. Territories, they are also mental constructs. They are part of the American civilization ideal and so their meaning evolved with time. Thus, if parks first used the language of aesthetics and were landscapes, later they became associated with ecology and the awareness of ecosystems. Environmentalism was not ecological at first and its progress, impressive as it might have seemed, was the result of experimentation and delicate compromises rather than of a global political project. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Hetch Hetchy crisis and the schism between preservation and conservation emphasized the weaknesses of the movement
Trousselle, Yvan. "Les Chicanos en Californie : menace ou atout pour les Etats-Unis du XXème siècle." Grenoble 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003GRE39004.
Full textVarieras-Payen, Evelyne. "Les capitalistes de Californie et les chemins de fer, 1887-1916 : étude de cas." Paris 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA010536.
Full textThis is a study of the businessmen who controlled the railroads and street railroads in the San Francisco bay area. Our goal is to describe their situation, their practices and their problems, and thus to lay the groundwork for the definition of a class of capitalists; in other words, our approach rests on the assumption that the history of American society was shaped by historical actors rather than by the impersonal forces of modernization. The correspondence of Collis p. Huntington, the leading figure in the group who built the western section of the first transcontinental railroad, sheds light on his methods, his relations with associates, creditors, suppliers and clients, and underlines the conflicts between businessmen in the 1890's. In this period, Huntington strove to secure from the us congress a favorable settlement of the debt of the central pacific, the oldest component of the holding southern pacific co. . We also examine the activities of the railroad entrepreneurs as they appear at the local level, and more specifically their relationships with local businessmen and politicians in the city of Oakland, which was both a railroad terminal and a suburb of San Francisco. The second part of this dissertation focuses on electric railways, which lead us to other groups of businessmen: a mining entrepreneur, Francis m. Smith, his associates, a group of real-estate developers, and then the San Francisco bankers who controlled their companies after 1913. We conclude that railroad technology, as well as new electricity-driven traction systems applied to street railroads, did not in themselves change the methods of the California capitalists. Businessmen used them to get loans from eastern industrialists, in order to finance other business ventures at the local level. They relied on a network of local associates, whom they occasionally called upon when political lobbying was needed. Their business habits remained very close to those of the old merchants
Nacouzi, Salwa. "La question chinoise en Californie : 1848-1882, de l'insertion à l'exclusion." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070080.
Full textLe, Texier Emmanuelle. "Immigration, exclusion et participation des Mexicains aux Etats-Unis : le barrio mexicain de San Diego (barrio Logan), Californie." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004IEPP0038.
Full textLecuyer, Christophe. "Hydrothermalisme fossile dans une paléocroûte océanique associée à un centre d'expansion lent : le complexe ophiolitique de Trinity (N. Californie, U.S.A.)." Rennes 1, 1989. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00655957.
Full textGuilhem, Trilla Aurélie. "Analysis of unusual earthquake and tremor seismicity at the Mendocino triple junction and Parkfield, California." Paris, Institut de physique du globe, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012GLOB0002.
Full textThe detection and the analysis of unusual seismic events such as slow/low-stress-drop earthquakes in the Mendocino Triple Junction (MTJ), and nonvolcanic tremors and repeating earthquakes near Parkfied-Cholame can be used to provide a clearer picture and a better understanding of fault rheology, mechanics, and active tectonics in California. Modeling of cataloged slow earthquakes, which show large high-frequency/low-frequency magnitude differentials, indicates that the differences come from the source rather than from strongly attenuated propagation paths. Because the restricted number of these events limits their study and a precise comprehension of the complex processes occurring in the MTJ, a new procedure is proposed using continuous scanning of long-period seismic waveforms and moment tensor inversions to automatically detect and characterize regular and slow events, with magnitude larger than 3. 5 occurring in the region. A similar approach using quasi-finite-source Green’s functions in a point-source inversion method is proposed for the fast detection and characterization of large and potentially tsunamigenic earthquakes along the Cascadia Subduction Zone as well as in other subduction zone regions such as offshore Japan. Furthermore, this approach has the potential to be included in future earthquake and tsunami early warning systems. Nonvolcanic tremors on the other hand, near Parkfield, inform on the variations in the state of stress in the deep fault zone and as a consequence in possible loading of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) at the proximity of the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake rupture. Tremors are indeed strongly modulated by small stress changes (i. E. In the order of kPa) transmitted by local and regional earthquakes into their source region, below the seismogenic zone. The effects on tremors can last from a few seconds to several years after local, regional, and/or teleseismic earthquakes. Understanding and quantifying the tremor activity is essential for understanding the physics underlying the earthquake and fault zone processes such as earthquake nucleation, stress dependences, and state of fault stress. Episodes of tremors are found for example to exhibit deep M∼5 slow slip events along the SAF, where no other datasets have yet revealed them. Hence, the occurrence of large events might be better understood through modeling of atypical, and numerous micro-earthquakes, whose recurrence times are shorter. Understanding the characteristics of the unusual seismicity in northern California gives insights on the processes responsible for the occurrence of regular small and large earthquakes in the region that might help the seismological community to develop better earthquake forecasting models in the future
Foucrier, Annick. "La France, les Français et la Californie avant la ruée vers l'or (1786-1848)." Paris, EHESS, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991EHES0005.
Full textThe relationships of france, the french and california from 1786 (when laperouse called at monterey) to 1848 (the annexation by the united states) are studied from economical, social, cultural and political viewpoints. The french first came to california to trade sea otter furs, to be sold in china, then to buy supplies for whalers or for the french steelements in the marquesas and tahiti islawds. These travelers described the missions, built by the spanish beginning in 1769 to convert indians, and after the mexican independence, they observed the secularization of mision lands which turned california into a cattle breeding country, divided into large ranchos. Being situated at the borders of the spanish, russian and english empires, california held a strategic place, and its harbors were coveted by the united states. From 1836, france too was interested in the future of california, and in 1842 a french consulate was created at monterey. The complex play of the maritime powers in the 1840s ends in 1848 with the annexation of california by the united states. Several chapters deal with the french who lived in california, their origins (social and regional), their trades, their integration and their participation in the political life of the country
Coppolani, Antoine. "Gouverner la Californie : l'expérience du libéralisme responsable : 1958-1966." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030152.
Full textA study of liberal democratic public policies in california from 1958 through 1966. The edmund g. "pat" brown gubernatorial era took place just before ronald reagan's rise to power and his election as governor of california in 1966
Paul, Frédéric. "Convergences aventureuses : l’écho des années soixante-dix californiennes sur l’art européen des années quatre-vingt-dix et autres essais sur l’art contemporain." Rennes 2, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00383238/fr/.
Full textThe art scene in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s established favourable terrain for the investigations of a new generation of artists, even if it did not enjoy any real logistical support, be it from the art trade or from institutions. The conceptual art promoted at the same time by Seth Siegelaub in New York prepared an alternative to Minimal art. This phenomenon already had its equivalent in Europe. The dematerialization of the work of art would have decisive consequences in California, where it gave rise to a Conceptual art stripped of any dogmatism and marked by the influence of powerful personalities like Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari. East coast artists such as Douglas Huebler, William Wegman, and Robert Cumming, plus Ruppersberg in the Midwest, would find more stimulating working conditions on the other side of the United States. Europeans like Bas Jan Ader and his colleague Ger van Elk would follow the same path. Their works would not find any immediate on-the-spot visibility, but after a gap of about fifteen years, a new generation of European artists (let us mention artists like Claude Closky, in France, and Jonathan Monk, in England) leaned on those older brothers and elevated them to the rank of primary references. Using selected examples of artists and a corpus of texts put together since the beginning of the 1990s, written for various exhibition catalogues, reviews and publishers, the aim of this thesis is to introduce this dialogue between generations and shed light on certain convergences despite the disparity of institutional and societal contexts
Perez, Tisserant Emmanuelle. "« Nuestra California » : faire Californie entre deux constructions nationales et impériales (vers 1810-1850)." Paris, EHESS, 2014. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01142623.
Full textThe case of California brings to light the imperial character of nation-building in Mexico and the United States in the early 19th century. Concerning Mexico, the equality of Indians proclaimed by Independence proves itself a hard reach. The missions are so important to control the Indians that the government has to delay their end. Moreover, the Indians have their own perception of the meaning of equality and sovereignty on their land. Settlers and soldiers are at first still attached to the colonial System as it is. But Mexican governors and others convince a handful of young people to turn to a public career and the conception of California as a political project. A local elite comes to existence and is ready to revolt when they consider their rights flouted. Those revolts can be compared to other federalist revolts in Mexico as well as with settlers revolt in other settlers colonies. The political culture and the relationship with Mexico also evolves with the increase in circulations from the 1830s. The South becomes more connected to Mexico than the North, that becomes more connected to Oregon and the Western United States. Concerning the United States, the hopes of their consul at Monterey to promote a peaceful annexation is ruined by the attack of a frontier post by recent migrants in order to defend their right ; to the land and to a « true republic ». This confrontation between Mexican-Californians settlers and United States migrants is one of two national and imperial projects on a same territory and illustrates the ambiguity of claiming sovereignty, liberty and equality on a conquered territory
Lemaire, Janine. "Les Indiens citadins de l'agglomération de San Francisco dans une perspective nationale et régionale." Paris 7, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA070038.
Full textThis PhD dissertation about the Native Americans residing in the urban area of San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose in California studies the living conditions of this community during the second half of the twentieth century. After a summary of the history of the Bay Area Indians until 1945, comes an analysis of the migration of reservation inhabitants towards this region in the 1950's and 1960's. Then the situation and the recent evolution of the metropolitan area Indians are described in the following fields : demography, residential patterns, economy, work, family, education, health, associations and ethnic events. The end of this study recalls the community's activism in the 1960's that led to the occupation of the Alcatraz Island
Grivet, Simon. "Tuer sans remords : une histoire de la peine de mort en Californie de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours." Phd thesis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00628649.
Full textTocilovac, Marko. "La fabrique politique de la frontière mexico-américaine : Etat, ONG et expériences frontalières à San Diego (Californie, Etats-Unis)." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0686.
Full textThe research conducted as part of my PhD dissertation offers an analysis of the U. S. -Mexico border through the study of the multiplicity of its actors, issues and experiences. Based on a fourteen-month fieldwork in San Diego, California (USA) between 2009 and 2011, this study questions the interactional dynamics on migration and border issues between federal agents, non-State actors, migrants and residents of border communities. Through this work of political anthropology, I examine how daily productions of border experiences are negotiated through the analysis of the border dispositif deployed by the United-States federal government and of the reactions that these policies and practices induce among non-State actors. I try to demonstrate that the border, in the variety of its existing modalities, is not under the absolute and exclusive control of the State. Non-State actors, through a set of actions, claims, disputes and negotiations with federal agencies actually transform the experiences of the border. They thus participate in the political fabrique of a multidimensional border, working as an unexpected and heterogeneous assemblage, which contradicts the monopoly of the State as it is asserted at the limits of its territory
Morechand, Laurence. "Le muralisme chicano aux etats-unis : san francisco, los angeles, san diego (1968-1988)." Paris 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA030071.
Full textChicano mural painting in the united states was born within cesar chavez movement and the farmworkers movement. The banners of the virgin de guadalupe and the aztec eagle as well as graphic illustration in el malcriado are the signs that foretell the mural movement. On a socio-philosophical and esthetic levels, chicano murals emerged from a cultural nothingness both on the point of view of lack of education for some painters as well as the exclusion of chicano artists from the artistic scenne. That is why they created cultural centers and built up a non-occidental conception of art. In the three cities we studied, chicano murals were very different. In los angeles, chicano murals emerged from graffiti and was initiated in poor housing projects by charles felix. Afterwards, from militant chicano muralism became environmental. In san francisco, chicano muralism was born from unemployment and had a multi-ethnic charcter. In san diego, muralism was born from urban renewal and from the buildin of chicano park to. Struggle against the building of coronado bridge. So, in fact, we have three chicano mural movements. Indigenism is a recurrent theme in the three cities and is linked to the plan espiritua of aztlan
Gloor, Audrey. "Los Angeles, un outil de compréhension de la ville post-moderne." Grenoble 2, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006GRE29028.
Full textIn recent years, planners have coined new words to describe the changing city in the best possible way. One of them is the adjective "postmodern" which refers to a new era which the city is supposed to have entered. For many planners and urban geographers, the city which best illustrates postmodernity is Los Angeles. Just like Chicago in the twenties, it is said to be a laboratory and a new prototype of American city. Whilst the "Americanisation" and "los angelisation" of American and European cities is often mentioned, Los Angels shows evidence of a return to European types of planning. This trend is reflected in the New Urbanism movement, which is currently involved in the Playa Vista development. This new area, located to the West of the city, is based on a specific set of criteria, including mixed-use, the integration of pedestrians and a higher density than that of the rest of the city. The aim of this thesis is to ask the following questions : how and why does this new area blend into Los Angeles’cityscape when it in fact appears to be a variance with it
Verron, Pierre-Louis. "Représentations de la Californie dans les récits de voyages en langue française (1854-1915)." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040044.
Full textCalifornia was a borderland, more or less real for Voltaire, today it still remains a receptacle of fantasies of all sorts and represents a unique image of Americaness. During the decades following the Gold Rush, which had attracted attention from the whole world upon California, and through the eyes of travelers, this young State became civilized all the while keeping its own identity within the Union. How this period spreading until the eve of World War I contribute to the topical image of California as a land a dream, excess and innovation which remains so contemporary ? This research is based on a large corpus of francophone authors who went to California as tourists, diplomats, missionaries, scientists, business men or emigrants from various European countries and French Canada and who were published either in their homeland, in another francophone country or more rarely in California. The historico-thematic approach used in this dissertation is meant to enlight the perceptions and stereotypes of these travelers that have to be understood from their cultural relations with California, as well as the collective fiction coming from visions created through the observation and written retranscription of the Californian nature, ressources, achievements and society
Jouzel, Jean-Noël. "Une cause sans conséquences : comparaison des trajectoires politiques des éthers de glycol en France et en Californie." Grenoble 2, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006GRE21022.
Full textThe environmental and professional circulation of thousands of chemicals which toxic effects are not very well known generates a radically uncertain situation. Since the middle of the 1990’s, a series of institutional structures have been created in order to improve the knowledge of these effects and their control. In the meantime, this problem has become more and more visible in public space and controversial. This dissertation's purpose is to question the limits of these mutations by comparing two different political contexts, France and California, which had to manage the conflict due to the same chemical – the glycol ethers, a group of highly used solvents, some of them being reproductive toxicants. In California, a technocratic control of chemicals exists since the beginning of the 1970's, and this system has been highly contested in political and judicial arenas, which is very different from the much more silent approach to these questions prevailing in France. By tracking the political trajectories of the glycol ethers in these two areas, the dissertation shows that, in France, the actors taking part in the conflict linked to these chemicals are unable to break the compromises which limitate their capacity to tackle very uncertain issues. On the contrary, the Californian actors of this controversy have acquired a capacity to engage radical conflicts about the situations of chemical dangers and uncertainties
Raymond, Stéphanie. "Du "retour à la nature" au "retour à la campagne" : migrants et recompositions territoriales dans le Midi de la France et en Californie du Nord." Toulouse 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003TOU20102.
Full textSome rural areas of the Western world, that were until quite recently either left side or mostly abandoned are again experiencing a revival of interest that is not just tourism-related. A "Back-to-the-countrysideʺ movement has been developing for over thirty years with the post-industrial framework of our societies. This "going back" phenomenon is here analysed through two case studies, one in Mendocino county, Northern California, the other in the Gresigne and the Gorges de l'Aveyron regions in the South West of France. Different categories of populations that migrate to the country being in due course identified. Recent territorial restructuring demonstrates a large-scale rural gentrification in the south and west of Mendocino county that is still in its embryonic form in the rural areas under study in the South of France. This trend, at being looked sometimes as a new "free-market" injustice, is now emerging in the countryside and generates a growing appropriation of some rural areas by the middle and upper-middle classes at the expense of more underprivileged social classes. This research calls for thinking more elaborately about the regulation of the rural land market
Roger, Benoît. "La construction géographique des valeurs viti-vinicoles en Languedoc et en Californie (Napa Valley)." Paris 10, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA100031.
Full textFor thirty years, wines and wineries of Languedoc and California have become very famous. This work studies how the reputation was built, who led this movement and where did they choose to settle up. The PhD explains why the most famous wines only come from Napa Valley (CA) while they come from every part of Languedoc. It also confirms the role of Geography according to the quality and the specificity of the wines, among the professionals' opinion. A blind-tasting allows us to understand why geographic references are so important and omnipresent in their purposes
Martin, Philippe. "Le volcanisme Permien d'arc insulaire des Klamath orientales (Californie, USA) : pétrogenèse et implications géodynamiques." Nancy 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989NAN10068.
Full textMekdjian, Sarah. "De l' enclave au kaléidoscope urbain. Los Angeles au prisme de l'immigration arménienne." Paris 10, 2009. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00879800.
Full textThe enclave theory is generally used to describe urban immigrant settlements in American cities. Understood generally as a bounded and fixed place, the enclave is supposed to be the necessary condition for the production of identity and community belonging. However the multiple and heterogeneous places of Armenian immigrants settlement in the Greater Los Angeles area show that the enclave model is not relevant. In addition to these multiple settlements, Armenian immigrants claim a right to build a distinctive and centered place. This claim succeeded in 2000 with the creation of an official area called Little Armenia in the city of Los Angeles. To understand the coexistence of polycentric Armenian settlements and the community claim to build a unique center, I propose to use the model of a kaleidoscope. As an optical instrument, the kaleidoscope is made of multiple bits of glass which create -when moving- changing images which are geometrically structured. Similarly we can consider that the multiple Armenian places in Los Angeles are spatial fragments structured by community claims. These claims are never completely fixed or satisfied since they can be understood as utopian. Thus I propose to redefine the term of enclave as a symbolic and utopian framework built by an immigrant community to structure and control the multiplicity of its settlement places
Pardanaud, Cyrielle. "La crise de l'Etat de Californie dans les années 2000 : enjeux institutionnels et choix politiques dans un contexte économique perturbé." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA049.
Full textThis dissertation focuses on the institutional and political reasons behind the severity and length of the crises that the State of California went through during the first decade of the 2000s. After several years of economic growth that generated significant budget surpluses, several crises hit the Golden State. The first started after the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000 and was directly followed by a power crisis resulting from a failed deregulation of the supply chain system. This coincided with the beginning of an era of budget deficits that would last for a decade. Finally, this time period had seen the worst crisis since the 1930s: the Great Recession that originated from the bursting of a housing bubble in 2007 and was followed by a global financial crisis that culminated in the Golden State in the year 2009.The consequences of these crises were particularly severe in California and this dissertation aims at identifying the reasons accounting for this severity. It first stresses that the significant diversity of interests that comes from the state’s size, its economic structure and its socio-ethnic profile slows down political decision-making and increases its complexity. It can even result in an unequal representation of those interests. In addition, political partisanship is very high, and recession periods tend to increase this divide. This is one of the reasons behind the political and budget gridlocks of the 2000s that prevented legislators from promptly and efficiently dealing with the consequences of the recessions. Handling these consequences was also made difficult by the shift in power from local governments to the state, resulting in a slowing down of the decision-making process as well as in a shortage of funds. Besides, even though direct democracy has proved efficient in allowing citizens to circumvent gridlocks, it appears that a few propositions adopted through the initiative process have had unintended negative consequences like limiting the ability of elected officials to adjust revenues and expenditures in a timely manner. Indeed, the volatility of the California tax structure tends to be exacerbated when the economy takes a hit. This volatility is rather hard to offset both because the state does not tax services and a two-thirds majority vote is required to amend the tax code. Finally, several political decisions can be questioned, sometimes because they were made in favor of special interest groups while being detrimental to the public good. We conclude that the severity of the crises the Golden State went through during the 2000s results from a combination of both institutional and political weaknesses
Dassé, Marine. "Les espaces publics urbains : entre privatisation et néolibéralisation : le cas de la Californie du sud : 1989-2011." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100115.
Full textPublic spaces now depend on a neoliberal and entrepreneurial city that has to obey economic profitability priorities. This thesis aims at showing how municipalities try to bolster their image in order to attract new capital, which entails getting rid of its undesirables (the homeless and other people perceived as problems) who tarnish their public spaces’ image. This thesis includes three case studies : two malls The Grove and Americana At Brand, Business Improvement Districts and Safer Cities Initiative a zero tolerance policy program initiated by the city of Los Angeles in 2006. The goal is to understand to what extent the urban experience has been tempered and regulated with new codes, and in which all disturbing aspects have all been disolved in an urban fabric cleaned of all socio-cultural diversity. The automatic exclusion of undesirables embodies perfectly well this desire to impose dominant norms. All these new spaces seem safe and secured but they turn out to be controlled, surveilled, deprived of authenticity, in which bevahiours are heavily scrutinized. This thesis also aims to demonstrate how spatial and social exclusion mutually reinforce each other. Finally, it analyzes groups that are against public space privatization and offers alternatives to the redesign the contemporary city
Sinic-Bouhaouala, Isabelle. "Les réformes de l'enseignement de l'histoire en Californie, 1983-2010 : l'excellence face au défi de l'hyperpluralisme." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030117.
Full textIn 1983, the report A Nation at Risk launched a national education reform movement to make academic excellence the states’ education policies top priority. California became deeply involved in this movement, particularly in the subject area of history. In 1988, the new History-Social Science Framework for California Public Schools, adopted by the State Board of Education, made history the focus of the social studies curriculum. While cultural wars were dividing the country, California drafted a framework aiming to combine academic excellence with multiculturalism. In 1998, California set academic standards and goals of achievement for schools. From then on, schools were held accountable for their students’ performance. Contrary to what reformers had initially planned, standardized testing brought memorization of discrete facts back to the history classroom, to the detriment of critical thinking and social participation. By focusing on the case of Los Angeles Unified School District, we examine the academic excellence movement within California’s political and cultural hyperpluralism. We single out the successive steps of the reform process from the state level to the schools to emphasize several aspects of California’s education policy: the political goals and institutional culture supporting the reform, the complexity of implementation at the district level, and the contradictory demands made on teachers
Schorung, Matthieu. "Le transport ferroviaire de passagers aux Etats-Unis entre conflictualités institutionnelles, processus de territorialisation et ancrage métropolitain." Thesis, Paris Est, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PESC2016/document.
Full textThe subject of this research is intercity passenger rail transportation in the United States, approached from two perspectives: Amtrak’s traditional rail services and high-speed rail projects. The aim is to understand the workings of public rail transportation policies, what they contain, and how they are developed and pursued by the different actors. The originality of the research lies in its multiscale approach, with a constant back-and-forth between the different scales of analysis, and in its use of several case studies to analyze the territorialization of intercity rail transportation policies. The analysis demonstrates the emergence of a bottom-up approach to projects, notably apparent in the Californian HSR project and in the modernization of the Cascades corridor. This process has even gone to the extreme with the proliferation of private rail projects that stress their independence from government, be it in decision-making, governance, or funding. This seems definitively to preclude any attempt to establish a national framework for high-speed rail, like those found elsewhere in the world, regardless of party-political considerations, i.e. the traditionally greater enthusiasm of the Democratic Party for large-scale federal investment. Two conclusions emerge: first, the development of uniform arguments and recommendations to encourage new rail policies, emphasizing the structuring effects and economic role of high-speed rail, congestion reduction, modal shift; second, a tangible though uneven pro-rail position among public actors at all levels. Priority is placed on improving and modernizing existing corridors for the launch of higher-speed services, and then on hybrid networks that combine different types of infrastructures. There are no publicly backed projects for new lines exclusively dedicated to high-speed rail. Most of the high-speed corridors are in fact “higher-speed” corridors, some of which are intended to become high-speed at some time in the future, such as the Northeast corridor. The territorialization of rail projects entails the design and construction of transportation networks that are more integrated – at least in terms of service provision and physical connection – and genuinely interconnected. After analyzing projects for the upgrading of higher-speed corridors and the construction of new infrastructures, we note the importance of stations and the emphasis on the need for better coordination between transportation and urbanism through support for station districts. Indeed, a rail corridor project – situated at the intersection of political, economic, technical, and territorial interests – is the nucleus of a process of territorialization that materially embeds the infrastructure within urban spaces, and of a process of politicization through the involvement of local actors. Rail projects seem to be an instrument that leads to the implantation of metropolitan scale facilities (stations, intermodal hubs) and to the shaping or reshaping of the urban fabric (station districts, larger-scale district regeneration projects)
Maillard, Dominique. "Nouvelles migrations chinoises aux États-Unis et interactions culturelles : "Brain drain" et "Brain gain" chinois en Californie du Nord, 1965-2005." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030083.
Full textThe enactment of the 3 October 1965 Immigration Law has triggered off new Chinese migrations to America based on skill and family reunification. The flows of Chinese students between the Chinese world and the United States underscore the challenge that education and the training of skills mean in the context of a globalized knowledge-economy at the dawn of the 21st century. The brain drain to the United States and the brain gain of the Chinese world has produced a win-win process encouraged by both the American and Chinese leaders within the framework of a technopolitan “archipelagoes” economy during the 1965-2005 period in the “relational age”. The new Chinese immigration wave numbered some 200 000 doctoral-level people at the beginning of the 21st century. In addition to the new immigrants scientific skills one has to consider their professional and social networks in Asia as well as in America. Thus about a third of Silicon Valley businesses originated in Chinese or Indian immigrant entrepreneurship in 2005. Indeed northern California has looked attractive to the new Chinese immigrants, owing to its network of universities, culture of innovation, start-ups incubators, tireless search for new markets around the Pacific Rim, and the fact that more than half of Chinese-American families lived on the West coast according to the 2000 Census. This new Chinese immigration is tempted by two logics: the universal concept of “Cultural China,” which spawns a diasporic Chinese identity, and Americanization, which tends to American Assimilation
Lemarié, Jérémy. "Genèse d’un système global surf : regards comparés des Hawai‘i à la Californie : traditions, villes, tourismes, et subcultures (1778–2016)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100048/document.
Full textDealing with the colonial history of Hawai‘i and California from 1778, this dissertation focus on the transformation of the Hawaiian custom he‘e nalu into a global surf system. This analysis asks if there a break or a continuity of Hawaiian surfing in the 19th century, and what are the terms and conditions of its diffusion as a global surf system in the 21st century. Three investigating methods have been applied: an analysis of traveling literature in Hawai‘i, compared with a study of Hawaiian newspapers in the 19th century ; a recording of fifty semi-directed interviews to grasp issues related to appropriating surfing in California after 1945 ; and a multi-sited participant observation for thirty months in Hawai‘i and California, between 2009 and 2016, to found out about the contemporary historicization of surfing. Three main conclusions emerged from this data analysis. First, the introduction of Hawai‘i in the world system in the 19th century fostered the birth of a Hawaiian national identity, that reaffirmed traditional customs, such as surfing. Then, with the advent of seaside tourism in the 20th century, Hawai‘i became a touristic model, based on staging surfing and its appropriation by the West. To this regard, Waikīkī is a popular case study, and its development pattern has been reproduced in Californian cities, such as Huntington Beach. Eventually, from the 1950s, surfing has been exported to the world, thanks to the growth of its subculture and professional sport, mass media, and the democratization of seaside tourism
Le, Moigne Yohann. "Concentration spatiale et relations interraciales : analyse géopolitique des rivalités criminelles et politiques entre Afro-Américains et Latinos dans la ville de Compton (Californie)." Thesis, Paris 8, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA080026/document.
Full textThe aim of this dissertation is to provide a geopolitical analysis of the consequences engendered by the massive Hispanic immigration wave that has hit the Los Angeles region from the 1980s onward. We will specifically focus on the impact of the increasing spatial concentration of Latinos in Compton (a poor city traditionally considered as a black enclave) on the highly mediatized deterioration of interracial relations between blacks and Latinos in two specific areas : gangs and local politics.In the first part, we will detail the socio-Demographic changes that have affected Compton over the decades. We will analyze the two ethnic successions that the city went through as well as the specific socio-Economic contexts in which they occurred. This will lead us to introduce the issues at stake and the consequences of the increasing spatial concentration of Hispanic immigrants on race relations at the local level. The second part deals with the consequences of this immigration wave on the relations between black and Latinos gangs. We will describe the shift in the local balance of power and we will assess the racial dimension of this rise in interracial tensions. Lastly, in a third part, we will analyze the paradoxical lack of political representation that characterizes Compton Latinos, in spite of an overwhelming numerical superiority. We will detail the causes of such an absence of political incorporation and evaluate its impact on interracial relations
Balenieri, Camille. "L'art de résister : Chauncey Hare, photographe politique aux États-Unis, des années 1950 à nos jours." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H031.
Full textThis dissertation is the first monographic study of Chauncey Hare's work and career. Born in 1934 and based in San Francisco, he is a key figure of American documentary photography. Hare's work combines the heritage of the Farm Security Administration, the influence of counter-culture, a strong artistic impetus and anti-capitalist worldview. His photographic career spans two decades, from the mid-1960 to the mid-1980s, but his success in the art world was short-lived : he achieved recognition with his book Interior America published in 1978, which eventually became a landmark for social documentary photography, but his political stance and activism complicated the institutional reception of his work. This dissertation is based on the study of Chauncey Hare's archives, stored at the Bancroft library (University of California-Berkeley) since 2000, and on a series of interviews conducted with him and other cultural players of the Bay Area. It considers Chauncey Hare's oeuvre in itsbroadest dimension, including his visual work, his texts but also his very existence as form of praxis. This large and diverse body of work is anchored in the text of 1960-70s counter-cultural California in which it was born. Art history and cultural history come together in this dissertation, whose aims are to give a first,precise, descriptive and critical overview of this body of work to deconstruct the myth surrounding the artist and to reintegrate the work in its various networks (institutional, intellectual, social). This dissertation is divided to four chronological parts, which cover Chauncey Hare's entire lifespan to date (1934-2019)
Maass, Alexandra. "La religion du corps en Californie." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040134.
Full textThe body’s new frontier is both an esthetic and scientific quest, with the wild dream of reaching an ideal beauty and immortality - or at least living better and longer. In California, the body and its cult are so important therefore we can safely say that it is a religion. This religion of the body is primarily linked to the Divine since in the classical point of view, the body is either linked to sin or is a way to reach God, as the oriental religions believe. From ancient Greece to the oriental influences, not forgetting how the body is perceived in California’s history and its relationship to the Divine, we will slowly become aware that this link is somehow being overshadowed by a personal appropriation of the body both triggered by the 1960’s narcissism and social norms. The typical californian seeks experiment and pushes boundaries using the body as a medium, while striving to reach physical perfection. Of course this cannot go without the growing of a massive market, hence the connexion between the religion of the body and its mercantile aspect. That link not only reflects the amount of products and services as well as the whole industry behind them, it also brings forward the fact that the body is considered as an object one has to invest in and capitalize on both the future and the present moment. As in all types of religion, there is a part of fanaticism and going astray. Its impact cannot be overlooked. The ultimate question is the role of science in the body’s evolution. What has become the new scientific religion of the body slowly replaces the initial link to the Divine, bringing mankind towards more knowledge, mastery, and control over its destiny
Chenillat, Fanny. "Variabilité de structure et de fonctionnement d'un écosystème de bord est : application à l'upwelling de Californie." Phd thesis, Université de Bretagne occidentale - Brest, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00747012.
Full textHuot, François. "Modalités et contextes de mise en place des ophiolites : arguments tirés de l'analyse des mélanges ophiolitiques." Brest, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001BRES2031.
Full textDidier, Sophie. "Une île dans la ville ? : invention, négociation et mise en pratique du modèle de ville Disney à Anaheim (Californie), 1950-2000." Paris 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA010698.
Full textDevienne, Elsa. "Des plages dans la ville : une histoire sociale et environnementale du littoral de Los Angeles (1920-1972)." Paris, EHESS, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EHES0092.
Full textThis dissertation explores the history of the Los Angeles shoreline and, more specifically, the city's famous beaches, from the 1920s through the early 1970s. I examine Los Angeles beaches not only as tourist attractions, but as urban spaces. Indeed, as vast public accommodations which attracted millions of people every year, the beaches generated heated debates regarding their development, accessibility, policing, and racial segregation. Contributing to environmental, cultural and social history, this dissertation takes into account the multiple historical actors - engineers, scientists, urban planners, local officials and homeowners - who attempted to transform and regulate the beaches according to competing visions, as well as the ordinary men and women who claimed their right to occupy and appropriate this space. My conclusions are divided into three main categories. First, I demonstrate that the beaches of Los Angeles are today mostly artificial; between the 1930s and the 1960s, the beaches were vastly enlarged thanks to the development of new techniques. Second, I show that the beaches were a place where the traditional social and racial hierarchies could momentarily be challenged. However, the postwar modernization of the beaches and the surrounding neighborhoods led to the eviction of the so-called undesirable public from the shores. Third, the beaches were the birthplace of multiple subcultures which contributed to the emergence and diffusion of new values and bodily norms, whether at the beach or in the city
Niño, Fernando. "Modélisation numérique de la déformation localisée et de l'activité tectonique des failles." Montpellier 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997MON20019.
Full textBlanc, Emilie. "Art Power : tactiques artistiques et politiques de l’identité en Californie (1966-1990)." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017REN20040/document.
Full textIn 1966, the Black Power Movement, which influenced numerous other social liberation movements, signaled a paradigm shift in American activism designated by the term “identity politics.” By affirming the necessity for a political analysis of discrimination, identity politics called for profound changes in society, which also influenced the visual arts, resulting in important changes regarding the definition of art and the role of the artist in American society. By drawing on this new politics of identity, these artists incorporated activism into practice, creating original forms of expression and challenging the validity of the canon. This research project explores the encounters between visual arts and identity politics, as well as the broader relationship between art and politics, through a chronological and comparative case study of California from 1966 to 1990—a cultural context much less studied than the New York scene—in order to determine its importance for later artistic practices and discourses on identity. This thesis in Art History, to which cultural studies and feminism have made fundamental contributions, therefore proposes to establish artistic convergences around themes linked to the central premises of identity politics while at the same time highlighting new approaches in the fields of art, politics and theory
Michalková, Monika. "Human influences on floodplain lake sedimentation." Lyon 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO31027.
Full textLateral Erosion of the Sacramento River, California: Human influences and consequences for floodplain lake habitats This study is based on a spatial and temporal analysis of the active channel and associated flood plain lakes using aerial photographs spanning five decades (1942, 1962, 1985, 1999) over the entire 140 km long reach. Planimetric changes were analysed longitudinally (synchronic analysis) and temporally (diachronic) to highlight the spatial structures and their evolution through time. Revitalisation of Ht. Rhône and First Feedbacks on Revitalised Floodplain Lakes Sedimentation along the Rhône River The revitalisation work on Rhône River has been done on three different localities: Chautagne, Belley and Brégnier-Cordon. The morphologic form as a result of processes become consequently the control factor. Three steps were considered: i) to define the number connexions by year (the frequency of overbank connexion) ; ii) the measurement 1 of the sedimentation rates iii) the statistical analysis of the relationships and inter-lake analysis (the characterise of connexion frequency and to define the life expectancy of floodplain lakes). The diffèrent groups were defined by nPCA analysis. Morphodynamics of the Exit of a Cut-off Meander: Experimental Findings from Field and Labora tory Studies The morphological evolution of the entrances and exits of abandoned river channels govems their hydrological connectivity. The study focusses on flow and sediment dynamics in the exit of a cut-off meander where the downstream entrance Îs still connected to the main channel, but the upstream entrance is closed. Two similar field and laboratory cases were investigated using innovative velocimetry techniques (acoustic Doppler profiling, image analysis). Laboratory experiments were conducted with a mobile-bed physical model of the Morava river (Slovakia). Field measurements were performed in the exit of the Port-Galland cut-offmeander, Ain river (France)
Ralantoaritsilba, Nirina. "Les récits de voyage des Français de la Ruée vers l'or à 1913-1915." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040087.
Full textThe thesis studies the journeys and the travel relations of French travellers (about fourty), visiting California during the Gold Rush until 1915. It aims to establish a typology of the travellers and to analyse their travel relations.After an introduction presenting the context in France in the middle of the 19th century and in California which just became the new State of the United States of America after the discovery of gold, the thesis is divided in three parts: the first one focuses on travellers (adventurers and pioneers, their epic California, their time perception in the Far West), the second part analyses the travel relations (between epic and ethnography, californian realities and places, the birth of a new genre in literature, the French « literary western »), the third part presents a choice of three particular examples of « literary western ».The thesis also includes maps, portraits of travellers and engraved pictures
Lagabrielle, Yves. "Les ophiolites : marqueurs de l'histoire tectonique des domaines océaniques : le cas des Alpes franco-italiennes (Queyras, Piémont) : comparaison avec les ophiolites d'Antalya (Turquie) et du Coast Range de Californie." Phd thesis, Université de Bretagne occidentale - Brest, 1987. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00795305.
Full textLe, Tallec Anne. "Le nouveau Documentaire Social : critique et renouveau du documentaire photographique américain sur la côte Ouest des Etats-Unis entre 1970 et 1980." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010542.
Full textA group of students gathered around shared artistic ideals comes to life at University of California San Diego in the nineteen-seventies. Fred Lonidier, Martha Rosier, Allan Sekula and Phel Steinmetz, ail firmly focused on photography, elaborate a collective thought albeit never actually founding an official group. However, a shared emulation endemic to the West Coast and to the university where ideas birthed by leading thinkers such as D. Antin, H. Marcuse, J. Baldessari, B, Brecht, H Lefebvre or H. Haacke collectively stimulates the minds of those around, adds a certain group resonance to the photographers' methods and processes. Furthermore, Documentary and Corporate Violence, a text written by A Sekula in 1976, uses the term small group to refer to the photographers involved This text - to which we give the status of manifesto - criticizes the modernist reading of traditional american documentary photographers. It also exposes the attitudes developed by this group which we coin as New Social Documentary. We will distinguish one of these attitudes from the others : a documentary photographic practice which opens itself to other media, displays a strong textual presence, newly-thought scenography and exhibition paths, widened audiences, an interest in themes strongly anchored in contemporary activism, and which transforms what was so far considered as banal and mundane into testimonies of profound changes in societal structure. Modernist photography, an object to deconstruct, as well as the institutions that celebrate it represent a documentary tradition which needs to be renewed. The new documentary propositions along with the context of collective questioning from which they derive constitute the object of this study
Jourdan, Robert. "Culture biblique, mathesis et structures de la communication dans "The crying of Lot 49" de Thomas Pynchon." Paris 8, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA081293.
Full textThis dissertation takes the double shape of, firstly, an interrogation over language ideology and its relation to the graeco-roman and judaeo-christian worlds in thomas pynchon's novelette the crying of lot 49 and secondly of a renewed look at the diegesis thereof in the larger frame of typical + sub-plots ; in north-american literature. Thomas pynchon's frequent reference to + paranoia ; and his use of recurring schemes in european history may indicate, at least for the author of this study, a certain link to india in what is called the + indo-european ; part of english linguistics and this, in turn, is not the attitude of the novelists who predated the post- modernist american literature anymore. California in this book is + kali ;-fornia like it was in richard farina's been down so long it looks like up to me, for instance, and the more or less occult significations which are quite commonplace in that type of literature take here a new aspect : they become logical, even mathematical and very precisely so. At the end of this analysis, we can understand that these + games ; able to manipulate conciousnesses were freshly tested when giordano bruno's + mathesis ; or magical power of the higher mathematics was used during the jacobean era but have now reached their maturity. Post-modern literature is a powerful antidote, though, at least as long as it can get published
Leon, Mojarro Benjamin de. "Contribution à l'amélioration de la gestion des périmètres irrigués." Montpellier 2, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986MON20182.
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