Géographie en anglais / geography in English

Des ressources pour faire de la géographie en anglais

Urban Politics In, of and Beyond the City

(article en anglais / article in English) Cet article retrace en termes simples les grands traits de la géographie urbaine dans ses formes actuelles. Il rappelle le contexte d'une urbanisation croissante du monde, avant de montrer les traductions politiques du fait urbain mondialisé. Le cas de la gentrification permet d'illustrer ce propos en montrant qu'elle entre en conflit avec le « droit à la ville » (Henri Lefebvre) dans les grandes métropoles, mais aussi dans les plus petites villes.

Measuring the Global Influence of a City

[Article in English / article en anglais] Résumé : le professeur Hiroo Ichikawa de la Mori Memorial Foundation nous explique le fonctionnement du Global Power City Index qui classe les métropoles mondiales selon 70 critères. La définition de la « puissance » ("power") adoptée dans ce classement est large et repose aussi bien sur l'attractivité économique que le poids touristique ou l'efficacité énergétique et environnementale. Les métropoles s'appuient sur les résultats du rapport pour infléchir leurs politiques, et l'auteur souligne le rôle performatif de ce type de classements.

Brexit and the Challenges of the Irish Border

Northern Ireland voted against Brexit, with a shorter majority than Scotland. However, Brexit is bound to happen. Although European integration has played an important role in mitigating the border effects with the Republic of Ireland in the context of a post conflict symbolic reconciliation, the Brexit negotiations have raised a very thorny issue: can a border be soft and hard at the same time?

Ressources de Géoconfluences pour le programme de l'enseignement de spécialité LCCER anglais, monde contemporain (terminale)

De nombreuses ressources en géographie peuvent servir de support à l'enseignement du programme de spécialité de Langues, littératures et civilisations étrangères et régionales, en anglais.

The Policy of “Danization” of the Local Greenlandic Populations as Viewed by Inhabitants of Ilulissat

The acculturation of the Danish colony of Greenland during the 20th century was less brutal than in other latitudes. However, under the guise of the modernization and rationalization of the built environment, the urbanization imposed by Copenhagen profoundly changed lifestyles. Based on their family albums, this text gives a voice to the Greenlanders themselves in an attempt to draw the contours of a collective memory of danization.

Urbanizing Coastal Areas Facing Environmental Challenges: the Case of Timor-Leste

When Timor-Leste (East Timor), a country smaller than Slovenia, gained independence in 2002, everything had to be either built or rebuilt. Based on a study of the coastline, this article addresses the following question through the analysis of a wide range of issues (risks, planning, tourism, development, governance, etc.): Could Timor-Leste have become a laboratory for sustainable development?

Represent and Partition the World: How to Overcome the North-South-Limit to Think the Inequalities of Wealth and Development

“Developing countries”, countries of the “North” and the “South”… The words used to talk about the inequalities of wealth and development are historically dated and no longer sufficient to describe today’s world. This article presents an approach aimed at suggesting a new partition which would be operational and also take into account the recent processes like the emergence. The analysis comes up with six types of States forming three large groups: the precarious States, the advantaged States and the emerging States, the latter being the largest number.

The Indopacific Space, a Geopolitical Concept with Varying Geometry in a Field of Competing Powers

The concept of an Indopacific space is taking centre stage in the strategies of all the states having an interest in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Refuted by China, this concept is also useful to unite China’s competitors in working out common strategies. However, its borders are never clearly defined, leaving the field open to varying associations of states adjusting to national strategies and to the interests of the present powers.

Health Inequalities in Emerging Countries, the Case of India

Health inequalities between rich and poor countries have somewhat decreased, as shown by the reduced life expectancy gap over the last 50 years. One of the causes is the economic emergence of a section of humanity. However, in many cases emergence comes along with increasing internal inequalities in these countries. The example of India examines in which way emergence can worsen health related injustice, especially for the poor.

The Long-Term Growth of Tourism at a Site Now Designated as a World Heritage Site, the Geirangerfjord in Norway

The Geirangerfjord, one of the innermost end points of the Storfjorden (Great Fjord), has been the subject of early and continuous tourism, leading to its UNESCO World Heritage inscription in 2005 . Today, thousands of cruise passengers disembark there annually. By comparing old illustrations with current photographs, the article illustrates the spatial consequences of tourist intensification.

Forests of the world, anthropised environments

"Forest" is a word that covers several biomes and a very wide diversity of ecosystems. Most of these are shaped by mankind and even inhabited, in the geographical sense of the word, that is to say, in daily use by human populations. The myth of the primeval forest hides, in fact, a large number of practices which are sometimes made invisible by protection zones imposed from without.