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Understanding the geographies of religion and secularity: on the potentials of a broader exchange between geography and the (post-) secularity debate
For a long time, the mainstream of social and cultural geography seems to
have implicitly accepted that religion is becoming obsolete and is of little
social significance. However, since the 1990s, religion has aroused new
interest in the social sciences in general, and to some extent also in social
and cultural geography. Against this backdrop, a controversial discussion has
started in geography on the relevance of theories of secularisation and the
notion of post-secularity, as well as on possible contributions to these
debates. The paper introduces the interdisciplinary debate on revisions of
theories of secularisation and the promotion of post-secular perspectives,
referring, among others, to JĂŒrgen Habermas, Peter Berger,
José Casanova, and Talal Asad. In a second step, we argue that an
understanding of post-secularity that focuses on the contingency and
context-dependent delimitation of the secular and the religious promises to
be fruitful for social and cultural geography and can help us to understand
the geographies of religion and secularity.</p
Social and political dimensions of the OpenStreetMap project: towards a critical geographical research agenda
L'essor des ensembles résidentiels clos en France : un phénomÚne en expansion et aux ressorts multiples
Les ensembles rĂ©sidentiels clos ne sont pas un phĂ©nomène entierement nouveau en France. Toutefois, les
années quatre-vingt-dix marquent un essor important
du phĂ©nomène et sa relative banalisation, aussi bien
du point du vue géographique que social. Les facteurs
qui rendent compte du phĂ©nomène relèvent à la fois
de la structure de l'offre et de la demande. L'offre
met en jeu un double processus, d'innovation et de
mimĂ©tisme, où les promoteurs-construeteurs rĂ©alisent
un produit immobilier qui doit les distinguer des concurrents.
Quant à la demande, elle renvoie à trois processus fortement interdĂ©pendants: une logique extensive d'appropriation de l'habitat collectif, mais aussi
l'affirmation d'un double mécanisme de sécurisationsocialisation.
Enfin, cette progression des domaines
résidentiels clos en France permet de discuter et de
contester l'hypothèse d'une amĂ©ricanisation des espaces urbains
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