Section 39  : Spaces, Territories, Societies

Keywords

Themes

• Forms and spatial arrangements of social phenomena; socio-spatial dynamics
• Organisation, functioning and evolution of territories
• Spatial dimensions of relations between societies and the environment Objects
• Settlement and populations: spatial distributions, mobilities, vulnerabilities
• Territories and spatial dynamics: structures, scales, temporalities
• Design, production and management of inhabited spaces
• Societies and territories: practices, power relations, inequalities, conflicts, mobilisations
• Globalisation, metropolisation and territories of production, consumption, circulation and exchange territories
• Relations between society and the environment: landscapes, natural heritage, resources
• Socio-spatial studies of risks and crises
• Methodological developments for the study of socio-spatial processes

Approaches and methods

• Qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods in the humanities and social sciences
• Monographic or comparative studies of spatial or spatialised phenomena and processes
• Spatial analysis
• Creation, administration and exploitation of geospatial databases
• Geographic information sciences: geomatics, scientific imagery and modelling for the analysis of spatial phenomena
• Interdisciplinary approaches combining methods from the humanities and social sciences with methods from other scientific fields. Hybrid research-action or research-creation approaches

Composition of the section

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