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Section 42 : Spaces, territories, societies

Principal institute(s): INSHS

Secondary institute(s): INEE

Keywords

• Forms and spatial arrangements of social phenomena
• Organisation, functioning and evolution of territories
• Spatial dynamics: structures, scales, temporalities
• Spatial dimensions of relations between societies and the environment: landscapes, heritage, resources
• Social and spatial approaches to the environment and environmental change: climate, biodiversity, adaptation, transitions, etc.
• Settlement and populations: spatial distributions, mobility, vulnerabilities, health
• Design, production and management of inhabited spaces
• Cities, urbanisation, metropolisation and urban societies in their spatial dimension
• Power relations in space: practices, inequalities, conflicts, mobilisation, spatial justice
• Globalisation, production territories, consumption, circulation and exchange
• Socio-spatial studies of risks and crises
• Methodological developments for the study of spatial and territorial processes, including hybrid research-action or research-creation approaches
• Spatial analysis
• Geographic information science: spatial databases, geomatics, scientific imagery and modelling for the analysis of spatial phenomena
• Histories and epistemologies of knowledge about space and its representations