This article examines the treatment of outer space in the French weekly magazine L'Express from 1969 to 2009. After the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, space was essentially analyzed from the perspective of geopolitics: International tensions, the Cold War, and the emergence of an integrated Europe served as prisms through which the subject of outer space was explored. After the Challenger crash in 1986, thinking about space took on a more commercial orientation; business, trade, and competition became a powerful frame of reference. At the same time, ecological concerns emerged to reinforce a negative view of space exploration. Space debris and the decline of utopian expectations became recurring themes. This cultural history of disenchantment over space reflected both a scaling back of Promethean ambitions and the assimilation of space into everyday life.
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L'Express et l'espace après Apollo 11
La dramaturgie du récit journalistique à l'épreuve du spatial
Jérôme Lamy
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 68–87 (20 total)
Daring spaces
Creating multi-sensory learning environments
Sabine Krajewski and Matthew Khoury
into online learning, but it has also revealed many shortcomings because of the digital divide, unfulfilled expectations and obstacles impossible to prepare for. Dreaming of flexible physical learning spaces might be daring in times where virtual spaces
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 89–113 (25 total)
The Mosaic of Culture and Nature: Organization of Space in an Inhabited Cosmos
J. Donald Hughes
Henry David Thoreau remarked that he had traveled widely—in Concord, Massachusetts. An intentionally contradictory statement, it is nonetheless true if the landscape is composed of many interpenetrating biomes and cultural uses. Fields and forests, groves and gardens, towns and temples form the tesserae of a landscape mosaic embodying the interpenetration of culture and nature, and while such elements provide diversity, they can also, paradoxically, mold integrity. The integrity of nature, in the sense of the completeness of the ecosystem that is present in a place, invests that place with power and lays a claim on sentient beings. Mosaic landscapes have a higher degree of biological diversity than monocultures because they manifest ecotonality, and they are spiritual stimuli for the psyches of those who live within and travel through them. Maintaining the variety of elements within the mosaic, and preventing effacement by huge, land-altering projects where "culture" disregards nature, is a moral imperative. The arrangement of tesserae in a particular landscape mosaic must not be haphazard, but should make both cultural and natural sense, following the underlying geology, the paths of celestial events, and the places where myth and history have resonated, binding cultural meaning to the fabric of the land. Such a pattern leaves areas of varying habitats where biodiversity may flourish. In a future when humans will inhabit the Earth sustainably, the concept of the landscape mosaic may serve as an organizing principle.
The Suburban Front Garden: A Socio-Spatial Analysis
Eamonn Slater and Michel Peillon
This article argues that the physical structure of the front garden and its ecosystem is determined by an ensemble of diverse social and natural processes. The essential social form is that of visuality, an abstract compositional force that provides conventions for assessing objects as well as for reshaping their surface countenance and establishing their location within the garden. Accordingly, the social processes of visuality are materially realized in the labor processes of gardening, while their consumption is mediated through the concrete process of gazing. The identified social processes include the prospect, aesthetic, and panoptic dimensions of visuality. Labor conceives and creates them, while the physical structures and the natural processes reproduce and maintain them beyond the production time attributed to gardening. But they are increasingly undermined by the natural tendency of the plant ecosystem to grow. Consequently, the essential contradiction of the front garden is how the laws and tendencies of the plant ecosystem act as a countertendency to the social forms of visuality. This article demonstrates that beneath the surface appearance, there exists complex relationships between nature and society in this space we call the front garden.
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 78–104 (27 total)
Producing Space for Shakespeare
Rowan Mackenzie
Space has been accepted as a fundamental pillar of the disciplines of social science since the 1980s. Lefebvre's concepts of the creation of social space and the importance of the process of creating mental/conceptual space serve well as a
A Fold in the Road
Kerouac and the Temporal-Spatial Construction of Street Corner as Place in On the Road
Tara Chittenden
Jack Kerouac's On the Road is both a travel story and a cultural event. Although road narratives have been critically examined from numerous angles, few studies have addressed how time and space are arranged in the written representation of lives encountered on the road. The individuals who populate street corners are an integral part of American culture and can offer a colorful snapshot of local lives to those traveling through. This article discusses examples of street corners in On the Road to question how this “folded” time and space can be used to explain the folding together of lives in the writing of a journey. In so doing the article draws on Bakhtin's theory of the chronotope and Deleuze's description of the fold to help explain Kerouac's arrangements of time and space as the “chronotope of the street corner.”
Imagining Alternative Spaces
Re-searching Sexualized Violence with Indigenous Girls in Canada
Anna Chadwick
victimhood; they are spaces where resistance and creativity flourish, and where I am called to task as a witness—both an uninvited guest in Indigenous territories, and a racialized settler. It is from this vantage point that I witness, work, and research with
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 99–115 (17 total)
The persistence of racial discomfort on campus: Ethnographic perspectives from under-represented student researchers
Priscilla Fortier
This article describes the findings of an undergraduate Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI) course in which students examined the university's efforts to improve the racial climate of the campus. These institutional efforts are intended to create a more comfortable environment for under-represented minority students who often comprise a significantly smaller group on campus than in their home neighbourhoods and high schools. Many minority group students experience isolation and discomfort connected to a lack of 'ownership' of campus spaces and traditions, which tend to be monopolised by white students. In my EUI class, which was sponsored by the Office of Minority Student Affairs (OMSA) at the University of Illinois (U of I), under-represented minority students focused their ethnographic projects specifically on campus-sponsored programmes intended to facilitate interaction across racial and ethnic groups. Of particular interest to students were programmes related to residence halls and campus social spaces. The findings presented here indicate that campus-sponsored programmes to increase race awareness that depend upon students' voluntary participation may be less effective in bringing students together than required classroom-based programmes and informal interaction through shared extra-curricular passions.
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 24–38 (15 total)
“Space without People”
Austro-German Filmmaker, Bestselling Author, and Journalist Colin Ross Discovers Australia
Siegfried Mattl
tales of South Seas paradise, but Ross’s depictions undoubtedly re-oriented appraisals of this space through a strategy combining—or recalling—colonial desire and contemporary geopolitics in popular form. Ross was most invested in shifting the
Making Space for Sanctions
The Economics of German Natural Gas Imports from Russia, 1982 and 2014 Compared
Stephen G. Gross
supply? This article answers this question by looking less at policy-making, and rather at the surrounding economic and energy context that gave Berlin the space to maneuver in 2014, such that it could apply sanctions with little pushback from its own
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 1–25 (25 total)