The scientific books collection « Géographies et cultures », L'Harmattan Publishers: what kinds of cultural geographies? ; La collection « Géographie et cultures » à L'Harmattan Quelles géographies culturelles ?

Abstract

International audience ; The 2014 Cerisy congress devoted to the journal Géographie et Culture's anniversary was the occasion to make a point about the scientific books collection of the same name. It was also founded en 1992 by Paul Claval and ever since 45 books have been published. The paper is written by its present manager. First the paper deals with the books and their authors: who are they (men and women, old and young, scholars and others.), where do they come from, in which language do they write? Secondly the types of geographies here represented are studied. Does the content of the books fit with the name of the collection? It is often the case with numerous books dealing with epistemology, history of geography, historical geography and, less frequently, postmodernism. But in many cases, books do not have much to do with cultural geography. These ones deal with very peripheral themes in regards to cultural geography such as economic geography or political geography. Nonetheless, most authors use the same methods based on field work, which could hence be considered as the only common point between all the books. The last part of the paper deals with the way the collection has been ruled since twenty years, tackling governance issues. During the latest years the reading committee has decided to focus more on the cultural approaches on geography and to give up these other fields. ; Le colloque de Cerisy organisé par le laboratoire ENeC en 2014 est l'occasion de réaliser une analyse rétrospective de l'ensemble des titres parus dans la collection Géographie et cultures, fondée à l'Harmattan en 1992 par Paul Claval. Rédigé par sa directrice actuelle, le texte est tout d'abord consacré à une présentation des titres et des auteurs : qui, quels statuts, quelles origines (disciplines, établissements), quelles langues d'écriture ? Ensuite, les différents types de géographie sont examinés. La collection est-elle vraiment au centre de la géographie culturelle, comme l'indique son nom ? Si un nombre conséquent de ...