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Colange, Céline. "Réalignements et désalignements du vote en France : 1981-2005." Rouen, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007ROUEL553.
Full textIn an often marked context of "nationalization" of the electoral behaviour, the mapping of the votes at the end of the recent polls, translate a clear reorganization of the distribution of the votes. To a misalignment on traditional regional or sociological cleavages based upon left force / right forces opposition succeeded realignment in favour related to the regional or sociological opposition. This research emphasizes the strong socio-spatial structure of the voting behaviour with a particular focus on those in favour of new political parties who are building their identity and their speech in reference to a territorial concept. Our problematic consist to dread the recent evolutions of the French electoral map to a fine geographic scale: the canton and the municipality. This innovative method allows to make the link with the social data but also to place in prominent position various imperceptible spatial effects on the scale of the department or of the country. By reconciling the ecological approach as well as the methods and the tools of the quantitative geography anf the spatial analysis, this study proposes some tracks of reflection to understand the strong territorialization of the votes observed in France
Calindere, Otilia Constanţa. "L'identité nationale et l'enseignement de l'histoire : analyse comparée des contributions scolaires à la construction de l'identité nationale en France et en Roumanie (1950-2005)." Bordeaux 4, 2010. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00547326.
Full textThe national identity appears as a complex construct resulted from the continuous and concerted actions of the socializing agents. Among these, the education system has a special place. Its promoted speech contributes to the shaping of the images and feelings that are developed by citizens in relation to the national space. The first part of our study regards the theoretical approach of the national identity and its formation in school. In order to understand the contribution of the education system to the formation of youngsters' national identity, we propose a content analysis of some history school books (considering the fact that history is one of the fundamental elements of the national identity). The analysis is made with the aid of a grid structured by use of the three dimensions of the national identity: territoriality, values, national community. The data gathered from the school books emphasize several conclusions which regard the following aspects: the national identity profile required by the government ideology from France and Romania in two distinct moments of history; the differences and similarities between the national identity projects of French and Romanian education systems; the evolution of the project about the national identity in each of the two national spaces comprised in the analysis
Bán, David. "La gare en tant que porte sociale de la ville." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0077.
Full textThe present study focuses on various ways by which the social sciences have approached the phenomenon of the railway station. By examining different branches of the social sciences the author presents the railway station in its man y aspects -political, historical, symbolic and architectural. The study aims at understanding how the social sciences approached the railway station both from a methodological and an epistemological viewpoint. It answers these questions by presenting and analyzing the most important French and Anglo-Saxon historical, urbanistic, sociological and anthropological works on the subject. When dealing with the railway station, historians often take into account only its architectural history or its economical or political aspects. Sociologists, on the other hand, observe everyday uses of the railway station without considering their historical development. As for town planners, they are mostly interested in the problem of how to situate the railway station in the urban infrastructure. But urban anthropology, with its holistic point of view combined with its ethnographic methods, tries to provide a wider perspective. It’s aim is to understand the railways station as a social space having its own coherence as well as a place of individual and unique appropriations. The present work opens the possibility of developing future studies on Hungarian railway stations. The author considers using the works analyzed to initiate discussions on the large-scale reconstructions currently going on in Budapest and thereby suggests that the railway station should be conceived as a place-in-movement
Le, Goïc Pierre. "Brest en reconstruction : mythes,acteurs et rythmes d'une renaissance : antimémoires d'une ville." Brest, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BRES1004.
Full textSinthon, Rémi. "Reconversions extrascolaires du capital culturel : une révision de la mobilité sociale depuis ses marges." Paris, EHESS, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EHES0070.
Full textThis work argues for a revision of the question of social mobility in terms of capitals and reconversion strategies. For this purpose, it describes the way French- and English-language sociology conceptualizes social positions since the 19th century, in relation to the relatively autonomous history of the discipline. Then it points recurrent biases in the analysis of social stratification and mobility: the essentialization and the routinization of categories, the adoption of an encompassing point of view, the absence of scale-homology between phenomena and their mesurement, the absence of empirically-based definition of the subject of mobility, the interference of concerns of action, the idea of movements of the society as a whole, the symmetrical analysis of downward and upward mobility, the preferential analysis of the latter. It also reconsiders the problem of social boundaries. The theoretical propositions are tested out from the case of cultural capital's reconversions outside of the French educational system (traditionally described as "intergenerational downward mobility"), using, among others, long biographical interviews and eight large public statistical inquiries. Through the conditions of socialization are studied local reconversions (in relation to the territorial basis of educational capital, which gives the occasion to discuss the concepts of strength of weak ties, of social capital and of autochthonic capital), the different relations to consumption and the uses of family real estate, the place of matrimonial and seduction strategies, and, at last, the self-presentation strategies linked with the legitimacy of reconversions
Aldhuy, Julien. "Identités, territorialités et recompositions territoriales : les Landes de Gascogne, la Chalosse et le département." Pau, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PAUU1006.
Full textThe association in the same grid of two very different regions characterizes the department of the Landes: the forest plateau of the Landes of Gascony and the agricultural hills of Chalosse. However, facing this very heterogeneous space inherited of the formation of the departments, there is today a commonly shared “landaise” identity. In a first part, we will show that a relation of symbolic place is set up at the 19th century between the Landes of Gascony and the departmental grid. By hypothesis, this territorial configuration structure, since then, lived spaces and territorialities of the inhabitants and takes part in the construction of their identities. In a second part, we will analyze the spatial links of the “landaise” population. After having highlighted the existence of two differentiated lived spaces corresponding to the opposition of the plateau and the hills, we will identify the multi-scalars and not-encased territorialities of the inhabitants as well as the influence of the symbolic place in their productions. Then, it will be established that the departmental grid, seen as a patrimonial element and not a controlled and limited space, is a territory in which the local society self recognizes. However, from a functional point of view, the department is considered as an inadequate grid to frame the contemporary socio-economical dynamics. In a third part, it will be established that the “landaise” departmental grid is overflowed by a metropolization-littoralization process coming from both Bordeaux and Bayonne. Then it will be shown that this overflow, far from being an innovation, is the standard since, at least, the end of the 19th century
Sall, Leyla. "Les champs commerciaux sénégalais à Paris : coprésences, luttes pour l'espace et tactiques commerciales au sein d'espaces urbains interstitiels." Poitiers, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007POIT5003.
Full textIn this research, the concept of "trade field" is both an entry and a descriptive tool which allows us to take into acount such aspects as the fight for the occupation of urban spaces, the hierarchies, the competitions, the negociations, the tacit agreements and the institutional dimensions which are not developed in the "ethnic business" theories. The concept of "trade field" is meant to account for the existence of "trade territories" and "trade places" where the will to practise a trading activity is not enough. In these territories and places cosmopolitan resources are mobilized by actors according to their spatial, social and economic capital. By emphasising the fights, the competitions and the individual tactics, we aim at proposing an alternative to the "mouridologie", the substantialist and the systemist perspectives. The Senegalese traders hold hierarchical positions in the chink urban spaces. Their tactics are different according to their positions. The worlds of Senegalese traders and vendors are business and domination spaces where the ethnic and religious aspects are simply mobilized according to the circumstances and the individual interests
Allard, Cyril. "Une approche sociologique des processus et conditions d'émergence du sentiment d'appartenance au territoire : l'exemple du pays de Brest." Brest, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004BRES1009.
Full textThe sociological approach of the territory is characterized so much by the tools and methods which it mobilizes that by a glance which takes into account the spatialization of the social reports. Main conceptual categories of sociology like the social classes and age or the cultural groups are particularly lighting to understand the individual and collective reports with the territory. For the sociologist, the human territory is studied by the practices, the uses and the representations of the individuals and social groups. The territory, and the way in which the individuals perceive it, feel it and use it testify to a social structuring in action. It is thus necessary to consider these social, cultural and identify dimensions which intervene in the emergence of the feeling of membership of the territory. The recourse to methods of objectivation will take it possible to reveal the processes which determine the feeling of membership. Thus, a biographical approach put in perspective in its territorial context, associated to a study of the daily mobility inside the country of Brest like revealing of the human territories seems to be indicated. Lastly, a study of the representations of the territory will make it possible to put in parallel the territories objectified by the sociologist and the territories represented by the individuals and the cultural and social groups
Bourdeau, Philippe. "Territoire et identité : recherches sur la territorialité d'un groupe professionnel : les guides de haute montagne en France." Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991GRE19003.
Full textFrench mountain guides territoriality is based on a multiform relation between a professional group and its territory. This relation is both symbolic and material, social and spatial, and provides to the group a strong collective identity, witch is inscribes in a two centuries history and in an original professional culture. As a matter of fact, numerous territorial clashes are pointing the importance of the territory as the main indication of this identity
Burchianti, Flora. "Politiques et conflits territorialisés à propos du séjour irrégulier des étrangers : configurations comparées en France et en Espagne." Bordeaux 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR40068.
Full textThe settlement of undocumented immigrants is challenging state's policies in France and Spain. The irregular stay of migrants is usually analysed through a functionalist lens which acknowledges the failure of control and deterrence policy against unauthorized migration, or, underlines their function as a labour force or in vote-catching arguments in political speeches. This research seeks to implement a sociological approach to understand precisely the political incidence of undocumented migrants' settlement. By using a local perspective, it appears that the framework of exclusion designed by states and European policies gives way to diverse local configurations in which multilevel social and political interactions and the involvement of private actors, contribute to the local policy-making process. The political control and deterrence of unauthorized migrants raise local contention in favour of the legalization or the improvement of these immigrants' living conditions. These social movements use the territory to challenge states' political framework and reshape statehood and citizenship. These contentious interactions modify the borders between the political field and social movements: on the one hand, they lead to reinforce their own autonomy or, on the other hand, cooperation and transfers are blurring the limit between social spaces. Furthermore, contentious interactions affect the relations between protesters by redesigning alliances, competition and the distribution of power
Baudry, Hugues. "Approche des conditions fondamentales de l'habitabilité des espaces : pour une contribution à la géographie comme science de l'habiter." Tours, 2007. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00171043.
Full textBased on Georges Hubert de Radkowski's recently published works on habitat anthropology, as well as on the Husserlian and Habermassian Lifeworld-related enunciations, this paper, which is utterly geographic, proposes and discusses a definition of dwelling aimes at separating this notion from the representations our sedentary ans Western societies have assigned to it. Examining space habitability - be it the world space, the State (France, Jordan), the region (Wadi Rum Desert, Touraine. . . ), the city (Tours, Amman), the "city quarters", some of their dwelling places (high-rise housing estates; boarding schools, hotels), domestic spaces strictly speaking (tent, apartment, house) or the Self space in general, and especially their necessary mutual interactions -, this research partakes of the institution of a Geography which is neither individualistic nor spacialist, coming within the post-productivist civilisation process, supposed to renew the developement stakes of the human societies present on Earth and ensure the essential welfare of all those who inhabit it together
Imbert, Christophe. "Les ancrages des habitants des villes nouvelles franciliennes : des bassins de vie en construction." Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2005. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00012201.
Full textDauga, Marylis. "La Gascogne : représentations d'un espace aux contours incertains." Pau, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PAUU1009.
Full textWhat to think of a geographical space which answers very partially the inherent principles with the concept of territory ? It is the case of Gascogne to which it is usually referred as a geographical territory but which does not correspond to a contemporary politico-administrative entity. Certain authors tried to exceed this obstacle by defining Gascogne by its historical and linguistic heritage. Nevertheless, the results are rather vague, energy of the broadest scale (the triangle drawn by the Atlantic Ocean, the Garonne and the Pyrenees) to finest (identification of small countries). However, of the expressions such as "Gascogne, happiness is in the pre one", "joker as a Gascon". . . Reflect a persistence of this entity in the imaginary modern collective. Its apprehension appears to pass by the recourse to concepts such as that of space lived like, more precisely, that of representation. We chose to make not to an investigation of ground into the Gascon example but a study of the writings, produced by the national and local elites on the subject. Indecision carries it between the worthy Gascon going down from Artagnan and the Gascon strongly anchored in rurality. Only some practise cultural which would be specific appear for them to form a consensus. But, once again, while having a Gascon referent for the imaginary collective, those appear various and, sometimes, not very relevant. Thus, Gascogne, spaces with dubious contours, appears primarily marked by the metonymy and the syncretism which characterize it and ensure, perhaps, its survival
Pierret, Maud. "Bonnet de bain obligatoire : une ethnologie des piscines municipales parisiennes." Paris 7, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA070073.
Full textThe setting of the municipal swimming pool permits a sensory approach to otherness, a different means of assessing human seings in an urban environment. Is this behavior representative of the ways in which peuple co-exist in an urban context, or is it specific to this precise space ? This type of space, structure, and moment suggests a concentration of behaviors, of relationships, within a compressed time frame. This is a realm of intense intimacy, composed of sensations, of specific perceptions, of a principally non-verbal communication of the senses. Despite the constraints (truncated perceptions of the other, the necessary limitations of the functional body), one notes instances of creativity, appropriations, reappropriations, lessons, know-how ; a combination of consideration and attentions, of strategies and techniques. This study unfolds in three stages. First: a presentation of the various municipal swimming pools in which these observations took place, reflections on the role of the anthropologist on this specific terrain, on the methodology employed, and on the different disciplinary fields involved. Two : identifying and defining the threshold conditions that enable the perception of other swimmers. Three : highlighting the modalites of learning to swim in an urban pool : know-how, techniques, and stumbling blocks. The conclusion offers proposals for the current renovations undertaken in parisian municipal swimming pools, suggesting a final practical application of the current work
Cavaillé, Fabienne. "Conflit d'aménagement et légitimités territoriales : recherches sur les identités territoriales des expropriés de l'autoroute A 20." Toulouse 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOU20003.
Full textThis research concern the question of territoriality and identity. It is based on an expropried rural population experience's (because of a highway construction's). The conflictual situation and the elaboration of revendications offer a specific context to analyse how territoriality is used as physical and symbolical bases for individual and collective identities. The analysis of individual representations permit to find structuring categories of territoriality : property, patrimony, autochthony, and a territorial principle animating these categories: the territoriality as the institution of the "conflit-pour-l'échange". The fundamental question is about territoriality as the mainly principle sustaining a democratic political community. Concretely, which legitimations for the participation of populations in country planning and environment protection could be at the origin of a new i citizenship
Andrieu, Marjorie. "La valorisation des ressources immatérielles territoriales : une voie émergente pour l’action locale." Pau, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PAUU1010.
Full textWhat can the local societies do to adapt themselves in a competitive and unsettled environment, mainly marked by the globalization and the strong development of the information and communication technologies ? How should they act and react to the contemporary changes ? We chose to use the local development to study these questions. Our approach based on the concept of immaterial resources allow us to work with the social interactions at a local level. The study has been carried out in two phases. First the observation of four development projects proved the interest of the immaterial resources. Then an experimentation-based research helped getting a better understanding of the processes at work during the action. The results obtained constitute the basis of the territorial intelligence and propose a new conception of the local action frameworks. In the end this research makes a few suggestions to improve the local development methodology. From a methodological point of view, the work done shows the interest of the experimentation to improve the tools and methods of the researcher
Lagane, Jean. "Analyse des structures de communication dans le contexte de relations internationales dans le domaine socioculturel (Regard de l'Occident (France-Catalogne) sur le Japon)." Toulouse 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992TOU20039.
Full textAs we approach the close of the twentieth century, international communication arises from construction of a common reality. One is encouraged to inquire about cross-cultural uses in terms of space, time and nonverbal parameters which create a hierarchy of codes for regulating interaction in each society. Thus, the case of modern urban japan is being analysed through the eyes of westerners (franco-catalans). Each society provides us with distinct interactive styles which are syntherized through face-to-face interaction. This leads us to reconsider our ability to alter our attention among our own culture in order to adopt a new behaviour, better-fit for nowadays world-wide cross-cultural integration
Jarry, Marc. "Les groupes humains du Pléistocène moyen et supérieur en Midi toulousain : contextes, ressources et comportements entre Massif Central et Pyrénées." Toulouse 2, 2009. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00526018.
Full textThe Garonne Basin is the axial geomorphological entity of the Aquitain. In recent years, the middle valley of the Garonne River has been greatly revised. New sites and indications, particularly from the Lower and Middle Paleolithic, have thus been discovered and studied. The lithic industries yielded by these operations now provide us with robust reference bases, finally allowing comparisons of the behaviors of human groups during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene. It has been shown that the occupations were mostly multi-functional residential and are usually located as close as possible to the edges of terrace cuts. Geomorphologic and stratigraphic studies, along with the first dating elements and their correlations, allow the proposal of a first chrono-stratigraphic and chrono-cultural scheme, integrating the Midi Toulousain region in the general context of the occupation of Europe. It is possible that occupations of the Garonne valley by Acheulean groups did not become permanent until oxygen isotope stage 12. It has been shown that Upper Paleolithic and Late Middle Paleolithic occupations were almost totally absent, other than a few rare elements corresponding to temporary climatic warming periods. We thus deduct that environmental factors, which were harsh during glacial periods, rendered the Garonne valley particularly inhospitable, pushing prehistoric populations into the more protected areas surrounding the valley (karst). By projection, it is imaginable that the same phenomenon occurred during earlier glacial phases. The Garonne valley would therefore have alternately constituted a hub favoring circulation and a frontier limiting north/south contacts, depending on the succession of environmental conditions during the climatic fluctuations of the Pleistocene
Henry, Gilles. "Des "micro" lieux du territoire du cercle familial et des jeunes : un passage entre le "dedans" et le "dehors"." Thesis, Metz, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009METZ001L/document.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the fact that a minority of young boys aged 13 to 25, make use of «micro territories» close to their family's lodgings. It is based on an empirical research in the department of Moselle. The methodology used is the «symbolic interactionnism». The research data shows that, thanks to this process, youngsters gain a sort of control or property which will then be materialized by territorial signs (or markages) : empty beer bottles, cigarette butts, tags. These «micro territories» host informal but nevertheless social relations for different groups which develop daily during a few months or sometimes several years. The phenomenon is stronger in social housing areas where they become locus for experiencing interactive relations, for resting, between «cosmos and chaos». The author argues that these territories are a passage between the inside, private arena and the outside, public sphere, thus enabling a dynamic where internal and external social interactions emerge, where territorialization and deterritorialization operate depending on
Des, Robert Marie-Laëtitia. "Se sentir français : sociologie d'un sentiment d'appartenance." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005IEPP0010.
Full textMerle, Valérie. "Les usages, facteurs de structuration et de dynamique des milieux aquatiques : cas du marais de Bourgneuf (Loire Atlantique)." Pau, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PAUU1005.
Full textBertrand, Magali-Sophie. "Paysage et identité : une relation complexe : le cas de Vic-Bilh dans le Sud-Ouest de la France." Toulouse 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009TOU20040.
Full textIn a context where the landscape has become of major social concern, beyond the solely esthetic question of places of life, this thesis seeks to understand how landscape can create a feeling of membership of a territory. The landscape is considered as a paradigm of mediation between the territory and the society that inhabits it. To carry out this research, we retained the area of Vic-Bihl, located in south-western France, at the limits of the departments Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées and Gers. This border territory with a maked rural character, which accomodates an AOC (Regulated Wine of Origin) wine production zone in full revival, nevertheless does not present landscapes considered as spectacular, in spite of a singular and typified landscape variety. In addition, the Vic-Bihl -historically the "Old-Country" or Vecus Vetullus -does not own a recognized political-administrative existence, thus arousing the difficulté of seizing a membership feeling. The interest of this doctoral work concerns the grasp of the landscape-identity relationship through the installation of a model that invites to and articulates the concepts of territory, territorialisation and territoriality in order to "decomplexify" this relation. As for to analyse this role of the landscape as and aid and a vector of both a collective and an individual identity, we have mobilized various tools such as tourism imagery and literary work to approach the register of shared identity. Combined with those tools, semi-directing discussion enabled us to collect the talk of inhabitants with the objective to clarify the landscapes of expressed identity and to reveal a well-tried landscape identity
Louargant, Sophie. "L'approche de Genre pour relire le territoire : les trajectoires hommes-femmes dans les projets touristiques ruraux (Ardèche méridionale, Ligurie, Fès-Boulemane)." Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003GRE10205.
Full textBaticle, Christophe. "Les pratiques de chasse comme affirmations politiques du principe d'autochtonie : dimensions territoriales des luttes cynégétiques." Amiens, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007AMIE0023.
Full textThis work aims to examine hunting practices, particularly in France and especially in Picardy, as forms of expression of the relationship with territorial identity. Beyond this it is the status of local geographical identity which is set up as a point of rivalry for those populations which are, more than others, excluded from the “benefits” of globalisation. After these first sometimes rather microsociological and ethnographic viewpoints, the third approach will aim to widen the angle in order to describe, strategically speaking, the hunters of the Somme : that is to say 5,240 people who replied to us out of approximately 28,000 practisers of the sport. This quantitive base will make it possible to measure the concreteness of the relations with the local territories. In a word, if at the end of thie work, the formula “Man is a place for man” appears excessive to us, we must nevertheless admit the significance of the links to over-localised territoriality, as an almost logical complement of globalisation. The greater part of the practisers of hunting seem to be searching for a lost period of time. It is in this sense that the study of hunting activities interests the social sciences in order to understand the transformation of French society, via relations maintained with nature. Because hunting constitutes a form of total social fact (Marcel Mauss), its understanding takes on a pioneering capacity
Goré, Olivier. "L'inscription territoriale de la musique traditionnelle en Bretagne." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2004. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00008987.
Full textSauvaitre, Claire. "Espaces de la pauvreté et territorialités des "exclus" dans le champ d'une ville moyenne : l'exemple de Pau." Pau, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PAUU1003.
Full textBeretti, Lara. "La question de la participation des acteurs locaux dans le processus de mise en place du parc naturel marin de Mayotte (France)." Phd thesis, Université de La Rochelle, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00825878.
Full textLefebvre-Chombart, Amélie. "Initiatives sociales et solidaires et territoires ruraux : études de cas dans les Hauts-de-France (bassins de vie de Bapaume, Hucqueliers, Solesmes et Wavrin)." Thesis, Lille 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL10217/document.
Full textThe territories considered as rural have experienced deep sociodemographic disruptions which have led to major social reestablishments. As a result, the ensemble has become heterogeneous and its components unclear. The context of this study is calling out the possibilities leading to the togetherness regarding daily activities. The thesis analyzes the way social and solidarity initiatives enables the creation of appropriation and therefore territory. This study sits at the point where social and rural geography meet to examines the way the socials and solidarities initiatives, implemented within these territories, impacts upon the territory networking. Therefore the study examines the transformation of individuals into daily stakeholders and returns to the foundation of the territorial appropriation. By studying specifically four living areas specifically chosen for the diversity of their rural characteristics, we highlight daily practices at the territory level, reflecting the proximity of the non-market oriented social and solidarity initiatives. However, people can get to appropriate a place by habits and routines which create dynamic social circles and relationships. Social and solidarity initiatives are found to be inherent to territory. Finally, this study investigates the concept of socio-systemic territorial service, which underpins the contribution of social and solidarity initiatives to the overall wellness of territory. It concludes with the perspective of an evolution of the initiatives in terms of territory resources, a concept which depends on the willingness of each individual and of the groups
Estager, Sylvain. "Un objet géographique entre marginalité et territoire : la vigne en Haute-Saône." Thesis, Lille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008LIL10128/document.
Full textStatically, in Haute-Saône, vine growing in today a marginal culture. Nevertheless that region is full of vine prints like micro-parcels for hobby; front trellised vines, vine grower architecture or constructions, feasts, lieux-dits or local dictum in relationship with vine ... Taking ail those vine prints into consideration leads to believe that vine growing is not such a marginal culture. As a matter of fact, vine vestiges or sorne practices of everyday Iife remains to an important vine-producing past. Until the beginning of the XXè century, it used to take an important place in those countries. Vine producing economy's disappearing is often explained as a consequence of phylloxera. ln fact, it is necessary to examine dynamics that leads to a no longer valid production system. Vine growing turns away from commercial production to specialize in subsistence farming production. It is still an essential component of everyday life for those countries' inhabitants. As for as knowhow and practices which have reference to vine are full of remembrance, of things which have been lived through, and of an emotionallink, it enables to built a sort ofidentity for people of this area. At last, this object of study, even if it looks Iike marginal, opens on values of identity, remembrance and territory
Goval, Émilie. "Définitions, analyses et caractérisations des territoires des Néandertaliens au Weichselien ancien en France septentrionale : (approches technologiques et spatiales des industries lithiques, élargissement au Nord-Ouest de l'Europe)." Thesis, Lille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008LIL10103/document.
Full textThe settlement dynamics by the Neanderthal is beyond doubt one of the great topics of this decade. But once we start to talk of territory rather than modalities of occupation we open up such a vast field that we are at once confronted with the semantic vagueness of the word itself. lndeed the studies dealing with this subject matter have greatly widened over the last few years, if the number of works, conferences and books on the subject is anything to go by. Nevertheless, in the current state of research, the reconstruction of geographical spaces and their management by prehistoric man is still too often merely the result of analysis of the origin of the raw materials used. ln such studies, the framework fixed by the limits of the sites guiding choices of progression and itineraries for the Neanderthal seems to condition the territory. While in certain regions with varied materials a partial retracing of the arteries of communication and travel can be envisaged, the same cannot be said for the North of France. This study mainly tackles notions of territory, of modalities of occupation and of geographical spaces through human
Duval, Hervé. "Les sites fortifiés littoraux et insulaires de la façade Manche-Atlantique de l’Europe : territoires, échanges et pouvoirs au Ier millénaire av. n. è." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020REN1G005.
Full textFrom the coast to the islands, this thesis deals with the fortified sites attributed to the 1st millennium B.C.E. and recognized along the Channel-Atlantic coast of Europe. In this dynamic study area where people are connected to the sea, these fortified locations can question the socio-economic and strategic issues being attached to them, as well as the means deployed for their defense. In order to achieve this, the study is made up of 89 archaeological sites spread over the 11 selected departments (Seine-Maritime, Eure, Calvados, Manche, Ille-et-Vilaine, Côtes-d'Armor, Finistère, Morbihan, Loire- Atlantic, Vendée and Charente-Maritime)
Obin, Olivier. "Territoires en construction : de la géographie sociale à l'acteur-réseau : une lecture des dynamiques sportives de nature dans les Grands Causses." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00973203.
Full textVandenbroucke, Perrine. "Transformation de l’unité de production agricole d’une exploitationsectorielle à une exploitation agricole territoriale. : Exploitations agricoles, agriculteurs et territoires dans les Monts du Lyonnais et en Flandre intérieure de1970 à 2010." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20004/document.
Full textWhile the sectoral model of farm system instituted in France in the 1960s is in question, andwhile relationships between farmers and others local stakeholders intensify on land sharing matters, environmental issues, quality and food; this thesis is organized on the working hypothesis of the territorialization of farm system. This suppose that the future of farm systems increasingly lies on interactions between farmers and local stakeholders, which drives to changes of the scenes where are negotiated access to production factors, market positions and agricultural practices. The demonstration lies on the principles of rural geography, sociology and institutional economics in order to analyze the emerging arrangements between farm systems and territories in situations of collective action, public action or conflicts. The thesis consists in a diachronic analysis of links between farmers, farm systems and territories for the period 1970 – 2010 at the scale of two small regions, Monts du Lyonnais and the French part of Flanders region. The differences between a dairy mountainous region and a periurban and agro-industrial region reveal the contrasted patterns of the territorialization of farm systems according to agrarian history and sociopolitical context. It appears from this analysis the role ofidentities for action and political capacities of farmers. Three ideal types of farm systems, distinct in their market position and socio-technical networks, enable us to think about the stakes of their territorialization for public policies
Bony, Lucie. "De la prison, peut-on voir la ville ? : continuum carcéral et socialisation résidentielle." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100154.
Full textPrison, as an unusual place and extraordinary habitat, is generally perceived as an isolate, which creates a discontinuity in its territory of implantation. This thesis articulates sociological and geographical approaches and shows instead the existence of a territorial continuum between prisons and inmates’ residential areas of origin. This phenomenon is studied at different scales, with quantitative and qualitative data. A statistical and mapping study identifies and describes inmates’ residential areas of origin in the Paris region: it shows the socio-demographic, ecological, and spatial structures of the system of places that the prison forms with these urban places. I also conducted interviews with prisoners and ex-prisoners inside a jail in the region and in some of their neighborhoods of origin. The stories collected recount their residential experiences before, during and after their stay in prison, and show synchronously and diachronically how they live the discontinuity between inside and outside. A cross analysis of these narratives, together with observations of everyday life in detention, reveals how the prison is marked by the social and residential characteristics of its population
Leroux, Nicolas. "L'anthropisation médiévale des rives de la Seine entre Rouen et le Havre avec quelques remarques économiques." Rouen, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ROUEL002.
Full textThe word « anthropisation » denotes the effect human action on the natural environment. The ambiguity of this definition is evident : could man be excluded from an environment which would only be natural in his absence ? However, to give meaning to the term « anthropisation » it should be noted that this concept gained credence from the moment a profile was proved to be necessary, the negative aspect of human actions was implicit, then obvious in their positive aspect, seen until then exclusively in all good conscience as civilizing. Then circumscribed « anthropisation » is the consequence of human action leading to the impoverishment, a degradation, even destruction of ecosystems and sometimes the creation of other more or less artificial ones. The human impact on the environment leads to some economical comments on the low valley of the River Seine from the VIIth to the XVIth century. The struggle against the wanderings of the river, the exploitation of raw materials, the underground ressources of this valley, profiting from the richess of the River Seine and trying to establish crossing, allowing exchanges between the two opposite banks, attempt to account for the interest that man has shown in the natural environment between the Norman invasions and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Several human groups were interested in the path of the River Seine ; the great Lords (barons, counts and kings) and the clergy wanted to leave their imprint in this great river valley between Rouen and le Havre. History, with a capital « H » leaves traces in the earth, propelling us back in time several centuries. History cannot be erased because it is part of our heritage, conditionning our present and the elusive Future
Verkindt, Etienne. "Le paysage de mémoire, un des héritages de la Première Guerre mondiale dans le nord de la France : l’exemple des initiatives des collectivités territoriales." Thesis, Lille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LIL1A024.
Full textOne hundred years after what remains of the First World War? Many traces ( Cemeteries, trenches, monuments and some concrete positions ), many various ways of statements ( Accounts of veterans or civilians, novels, military note books, paintings, songs ..) disclose an history which shattered the World.Today, many projects tried to make an easy access to this history, projects that the Centenary of the war has strongly boosted, causing the revival of its joint memory. The concept of landscape of memory make us aware of the Geography of memory. First of all, because today the landscape as we see it show us a part of our history and inscribed us in that history. It is the last witness of the Great War. Then, because of contemporary memorial practice, and especially those of local authorities, are tightly connected to landscape practice experience. These practice are plural, they are in the meantime patrimonial, cultural, tourist and as a matter of fact territorial. They necessary ask the question of landscape concept interest in its theoretical and practical dimension
Rannou, Gaël. "Les constructions territoriales des supporters du Paris-St-Germain : jeux d'identité et enjeux de placement au sein d'un monde sécuritaire." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020BOR30037.
Full textThis geography thesis has two objectives. Using a microgeographic method, this work will show, in the first step, that the identity of ultras and hooligan supporters is built in relation to other actors (supporters' collectives, police, club managers) and by mobilization of spatial referents. In a second step, this work will show why and how this identity is fought by the institutional actors namely the public authorities, the authorities of football and the clubs. On the one hand, these supporters build territories collectively and their place within them individually. To be a member of the collective, supporters must build their place which is articulated between the quest for a social position and characteristic locations linked to this way of supporting. The locations are situated in places appropriate by the collective and these places symbolize the territory of the latter. On the other hand, this territory is violently defended by these ultras supporters and hooligans. For them, this violence is a game and a code applicable in their social world. So, It is the territorial and conflicting dimension of this identity that is problematic for institutional agents. In a world of football that would be exemplary of the excesses of over-modernity; the challenge of this thesis is to interrogate the place of ultras and hooligan supporters in this world which they designate as "modern" and in what way its security dimension reveals the paradoxes of this modernity
Vallet, Anne-Claire. "Les habitants invisibles des friches de la ville : abris discrets et incertains dans les terrains vagues et les délaissés autoroutiers aux abords de Paris." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021EHES0019.
Full textVacant lots and derelict spaces along motorways, insofar as they are wastelands, have a temporary but chronic existence in the city. These wastelands may appear, from the outside, to be abandoned, unoccupied, and sometimes impenetrable. However, they often include shelters, tents or huts, little or not at all visible from the urban spaces that surround them. Based on an ethnography of these discrete, precarious and unstable situations, this doctoral dissertation in anthropology examines from within and through the lens of dwelling, wastelands located in the inner suburbs of Paris. What does the effacement of shelters tell about the "being-in-the-world" and the relationship to the city of their inhabitants? How does this visual disappearance make it possible to understand what constitutes a certain habitability of wasteland? How does this habitability differ from, and even how does it confront, appropriation? Effacement of shelters, “being-in-the-world”, and relationship to the city show that, among other things, these wasteland - seemingly useless, fenced, indeterminate, unsuitable as housing or shelter - are, within the determined, planned and controlled city, essential for those who, French or foreign, from Europe or otherwise, migrants or immigrants, staying for a short time or for a long time in the city, do not have their own space and are not protected by society, the City or the State
ʿAbd, al-Ḥamīd Mahā. "Les transformations socio-spatiales des oasis de Gabès (Tunisie) : déclin des activités agricoles, urbanisation informelle et dégradation de l'environnement à Zrig, des années 1970 à nos jours." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100134.
Full textThis dissertation relates to an oasis area (a still productive agricultural land) which is being informally urbanized: in the Zrig oasis, south-east of Gabes, the habitat has proliferated without building permit since 1980.In this new urban space, a double social marginalization affects farmers who lost their land as well as newcomers with often precarious resources. The environment and the local agricultural heritage are also impacted.Zrig is a detail (in apictorial sense) of the future of the Gabes oasis. A research work on the space of Zrig and its transformations resembles the chronicle of an announced degradation. Indeed, the degradation can be identified at two levels: the transformation of an oasis area into a deformed urban space, and the development of informal socio-economic practices related to the strategies of space occupants and to their relations with local authorities. In addition to the data provided by official and academic surveys, this work is based on the results of a long-term survey that I conducted from 2010 to 2016 Zrig, those of yesterday and those of today, in order to collect their representations of the spatial and social transformations that affected the oasis. But also to study the building practices of informal settlement sand the strategies of newcomers for this purpose
Tillous, Marion. "Le voyageur au sein des espaces de mobilité : un individu face à une machine ou un être socialisé en interaction avec un territoire ? Les déterminants de l'aisance au cours du déplacement urbain." Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00403677.
Full textMoracchini, Charles. "Les collèges dans les montagnes d'Auvergne : étude socio-géographique." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992CLF20033.
Full textColleges in rural areas have a bad repute, as if the decline in the number of pupils were the sign of the decline of the academic level. The breaking-up of the educational system there may make us think the quality of the education itself is collapsing. Is the rural college the victim of the specific structure of its environment ? do these external factors weigh so much that they rob the pupils of any chance of success ? these small rural colleges in the academie of clermont-ferrand show the lack of moral and political reflection on what should be a fair system of education in these fragile areas suffering from a drop of the birthrate and an often negative migratory balance. This academie claims one of the highest percentages of small colleges nationwide. As some experts think 90 % of the population will live in 10% of the french territory in 2000, the particuliar problems of these colleges, far from being an impediment, give us the opportunity to think over what should be done for schools in thinly populated areas. We must therefore agree on a new principle, a new equitable contract, in which competition between schools, which are closely supervised by a centralized hierarchical authority, will be replaced by interschool cooperation
Cremer-Schulte, Dominik Clemens. "On the links between natural amenities, residential processes and urban planning : lessons from an Alpine urban region." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAE002/document.
Full textUrban regions in and close to the Alps have specific characteristics: they combine a limited land resource for urban development with particular environmental quality in their mountainous hinterland. This combination makes them particularly prone to peri-urbanisation, and potentially social segregation. In the context of continued metropolisation, both of these processes work against central objectives of urban planning, notably compactness of settlement patterns, functional mix, social equity and cohesion. In Alpine urban regions, the links between the mountain environment, urban planning policies and residential processes remain, however, not well understood.This thesis analyses urban planning and residential moves in an Alpine urban region. It seeks to understand the links between the mountain environment, urban planning and notably two residential processes: peri-urbanisation and social segregation. Its general objective is to investigate how and to what extent these residential processes are influenced by (i) the mountain environment and (ii) urban planning policies and to develop recommendations for urban and regional planning. The thesis does this via three distinct contributions which use the urban region of Grenoble in the French Alps as a central study area.The first contribution addresses changes in contemporary urban planning practice in the study region. Based on qualitative research, it focuses on the shift towards strategic spatial planning and on territorial re-scaling towards large urban-peri-urban planning perimeters. The chapter shows the creation of new governance arenas which call into question local planning cultures.The second contribution investigates the links between preferences for the natural environment, residential moves and social segregation. Using location choice models for the study region and the Marseille metropolitan area, this chapter presents a counterfactual segregation analysis that compares segregation outcomes ``with'' and ``without'' preferences for the natural environment. The main result is that households' search for natural environments has significant impacts on social segregation. It most often contributes to reinforcing segregation, but can also be an attenuating factor.The last contribution investigates the links between urban planning policies and residential processes. The chapter develops a residential location choice model in order to predict and analyse residential demand patterns for different planning policy scenarios in terms of concentration and segregation. The scenario results show that continued trends in urban planning policies would sustain and potentially reinforce peri-urbanisation in the region. Confining planning policies are found to be capable of curbing and potentially reversing demand dispersion. Policies that aim at re-centralising demand sustain and potentially increase social segregation levels.The results of this thesis call for a stronger integration of the natural environment in urban and regional planning. If spatial disparities in environmental qualities contribute to residential processes that are detrimental to compact urban forms and an equitable access to environmental quality, then planning should incorporate and account for these disparities in order to prevent further loss of land resources, socio-spatial fragmentation and environmental inequality, not only in an Alpine urban region context
Fort-Jacques, Théo. "Mettre l'espace en commun : recherche sur la coprésence dans les lieux-mouvement du métro. Le complexe d'échanges de la Défense." Pau, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PAUU1002.
Full textBoth exemplary victim of the urban contemporary reorganizations and ultimate saviour from this current trends, the public space may be thought as a utopia. In this way, it appears certainly as a potential for action. It involves a virtuous vision of the copresence. Therefore it isn’t relevant to analyse the geographical problem which arises as the individuals have to share space in the common situations of everyday life. This research consists in a study of the geographical layouts mobilized by the individuals to negotiate the copresence, considered as a « test ». This problem is obvious in the situations of movement, such as they happen in mobility-places, which are spaces produced by the mobility. The case of the interchange station of la Defense (Paris) attracts our attention. Indeed its recent reorganization highlights how the idea of public space nourrishes the RATP’s (Paris public transport system) consideration of the copresence. We are especially interested in the spatial dimension of the interactions of everyday life - for example: how to negotiate the crowding in a subway train in the rush hours? More over, the individuals whom we interview by « commented routes » are brought to describe and justify their practice of mobility. By this way, they evoke the practical and the political stakes of the sharing space
Dusserre-Bresson, Quentin. "Les modes d’habiter périurbains et l’idéologie de la « société des loisirs » : une analyse France-Québec." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100005.
Full textThis thesis analyzes peri-urban living patterns through real estate developer projects from the 1960-1970s in Quebec and France. In fact, developers of Bromont and Estérel in Quebec and Cottages-de-Cernay and Port-Sud in France seize on the ideology of the leisure society to design peri-urban residential complexes. The historical retreat on this urbanistic conception of a periurban inhabitant offers the possibility of a synchronic and diachronic comparison of the appropriation of these residential complexes over the period 1960-2010. The analysis of appropriation is inspired by the conceptual framework and the progressive regressive method of Henri Lefebvre (1974). According to this theoretical framework, the appropriation is defined as a conflictual process between the ideology of the space conceived by the developers and the representations of the inhabitants but also as conflicting relations between the different ways of living these spaces by the inhabitants.This research is based on three types of sources: interviews, newspaper articles and archives. This thesis shows that developers have failed to design a specific way of living that adequately represented their urban project. The research details the complex game of social and political alliances and oppositions in favor of commitment, rejection and / or diversion by the inhabitants in relation to the conception of peri-urban forms of the years 1960-1970. As a result, this thesis provides an innovative view of the different trajectories of peri-urban areas observed since 2010 in France and Quebec
Franquemagne, Gaël. "Les mobilisations socio-territoriales : le Larzac, une cause en mouvement." Phd thesis, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00432864.
Full textGilles, Emmanuelle. "Une expérience genrée des espaces du quotidien à l'adolescence : le cas des filles et des garçons de 4ème dans le Calvados et la Manche." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMC035/document.
Full textTeenage years are synonymous with the daily experience of one’s own social space while approaching the wider world. In a society where gender role division is still significant, where places are means to assert the masculine control of space, how can we comprehend the construction of space in the everyday life of teenagers faced with gendering? Is experimenting social space during adolescence partitioned according to one’s gender? This thesis aims at analysing the relationship between teenagers and the space they inhabit in terms of practices (social space), representations (lived space) and gender. During adolescence, teens experiment with the world around them. Don’t they expand their territory, their temporality through different spatial experiences such as appropriation and progress but also avoidance and alternative routes on the way to social and spatial independence? Approaching the spaces occupied by teenagers means analysing their daily social practices within their lived space (home, leisure, school) thanks to mixed quantitative and qualitative inquiries, periods of observation and the production of mental maps by the teens themselves. Hence the importance of mobility since roaming space means turning it into a territory and influences one’s relationship to the world. The effects of place (urban, suburban, rural) are essential in the construction of identity within a territory and reciprocally: teenagers act on space, in the sense that they experiment with space
Ma, Mung Guillaume. "L'appropriation des lieux du commerce éthnique à Paris et à Londres : regards croisés sur Château Rouge et Brixton." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100010/document.
Full textThis research seeks to analyse processes of space appropriation pertaining to the insertion of ethnic trade in the areas of Château Rouge, Paris and Brixton, London. It is focused on the ways in which this trade involving populations of African or Caribbean descent affects the visibility of these groups within the urban space. The existing literature on ethnic entrepreneurship and ethnic trade is focused on the entrepreneurial side of migrant-owned businesses and has discussed the economic success of minorities as well as the role of ethnic resources in the advent and management of these businesses. While these contributions have greatly enhanced our understanding of the migrants’ economic activities, they rarely have questioned how ethnic trade participates in the marking of urban space. This research contributes to the literature by focusing on entrepreneurs and customers rather than entrepreneurs alone, and especially on the sets of symbolic markers that are attached to space by the practices of ethnic trade. This research shows that the insertion of ethnic trade in Château Rouge and Brixton leads to different outcomes in terms space appropriation by African and Caribbean populations, representations of otherness in the urban space, and public discourses and narratives on the visibility of ethnic trade and migrant populations
Faugier, Etienne. "L’économie de la vitesse : l’automobilisme et ses enjeux dans le département du Rhône et la région de Québec (1919-1961)." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20025/document.
Full textOur thesis analyzes automobilism in the rural West during the twentieth century. It is based on a study crossing the Rhône region in France and Quebec area in Canada. Our documentation relies on archives for the Rhône region and national sources for Quebec area. These are supplemented by periodicals, reviews, statistical sources and iconography. Our demonstration wishes to answer to the question of the adoption of speed and its consequences in rural areas. By crossing territories, it highlights how an object produced by industrial city – the automobile and its variations – changes the rural andagricultural landscape, attitudes and practices of mobility. This work show that mutations about automobilism are much more numerous and complex in the rural than in urban areas. It also highlights the relative speed with which rural people have adopted this mode of transport: rural anti-automobilism is reevaluated and sociocultural impacts of mechanization are underlined. Finally, it posits the idea that the car speed is part of a logical and coherent system that is revolutionizing the mode of travel, but also and especially the space occupied and attitudes
Groud-Cordray, Claude. "In confinio Abrincatensis regionis : l'aristocratie des espaces frontaliers du IXe au milieu du XIIe siècle." Thesis, Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMC040.
Full textAvranchin occupies a border position within the Duchy of Normandy, sharing its western borders with Brittany, Maine and the lordship of Bellême. Territory considered at the same time as interface, periphery and interstice, it is also a living space, result of it own dynamic, organized by the societies that inhabit it. Through its relationship to power and its local ambitions, the aristocratic group, whose formation is the result of a complex and ancient process, constitutes an essential component of border identity.Far from being a desert region, Avranchin presents in the ninth century a political and social organization in which aristocratic families are integrated. This society, whose endogenous or exogenous character is unknown, appears as the obvious product of the Neustrian regnum. It is revealed in particular by the prism of the former administrative districts, the royal action or the role of bishops and hermits. Affected by the profound transformations of the Carolingian kingdom, aristocratic families are affected by the influence of the powerful family groups of Rorgonids and Robertians, whose strategy of domination of space is felt even in Avranchin. The Breton thrust of the middle of the ninth century and the political domination of the counts of Rennes accentuate the composite and multiscalar character of this society.When the dukes of Normandy, then the counts of Mortain, extend their authority over Avranchin during the eleventh century, the aristocratic group presents a certain form of continuity. The establishment of an institutional space is the result of a skilful construction, sometimes the result of a policy of accommodation and compromise, and relies on families outside the territory or formerly located in Avranchin. These shape their power around new logics and new loyalties, induced by the ducal or comtal control, the holding of administrative offices or the guarding of fortresses. They also organize their territories according to their own dynamics, sometimes around a prioral foundation or a fortification. Networks of extended relations and vassalage, family or neighborhood circles show that the horizons of this aristocracy do not stop at the limits of his possessions, nor at those in Avranchin.Although they have never generate vast honors or great seigniorial entities, aristocratic families play an essential role along the borders. Sometimes in support of the ducal authority, but often according to their own interests and beyond the political control of the border, they greatly influence the fluctuations of power in the peripheral areas of Avranchin where their interventions take various forms. The founding of the abbey of Savigny in 1112-1113 sheds light on this complex society, strongly marked by networks of influence and alliance, where the living space and geography of the powers of the aristocratic families shape the border area
Scapino, Julie. "De la friche urbaine à la biodiversité : Ethnologie d’une reconquête : (La petite ceinture de Paris)." Thesis, Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MNHN0006/document.
Full textThe attention for biodiversity has drawn to cities: it is now necessary to take care of species and ecosystems even in the most artificialized environments. Yet, hosting a wild nature disturbs the order and cleanliness criteria ruling urban spaces, and changes the professional cultures of their designers and managers. By the end of 2011, Paris adopted a Biodiversity Plan. Based on ecological science knowledge, its aim is to reinforce the presence of flora and fauna in the capital and to change city-dwellers’ perceptions on wild nature in cities. This policy is confronted to the ethnography of a vast urban wasteland, which is a territorial issue for Parisian biodiversity: the petite ceinture. Built during the XIXth century around Paris, this railway line, unused on a large portion, has been colonized by fauna and flora. Although public access is not permitted, this area is nevertheless intensely frequented by many inhabitants. The study among informal users focused on their relations to the place and the nature within it. The lack of official function and the loosy surveillance allow a diverse, transgressive and inventive social life. If nature is not central in the relations to the wasteland, it is a component of the place’s identity. The free development of plants is recognized for its rarity in an ultra-controlled urban world, while their ecological interest is not much mentioned. At the same time, the petite ceinture is being institutionalized. On one side, a differentiated management is implemented since 2006 by a staff whose action participates in ordering the space. On the other side, Paris City Hall converts some spots of the linear into community and public gardens. The case study of a promenade in the XVth arrondissement reveals a true attention towards biodiversity. But the recapture of the railway goes together with new modalities of controlling life, and the normalization of the place and its social practice. Wild grass and informal practices emerge where control comes loose. If bad weeds have been rehabilitated, maybe it is possible to change our perspective on the social fertility of the wasteland