This article explores how metropolitan areas influence citizen mobilization in response to the negative effects of urban development. Based on a survey conducted in Grenoble, it analyzes the reaction of non-institutional collectives to the dynamics of metropolitanization. Drawing on pragmatic sociology, it shows how these collectives develop learning processes and spaces for self-education, where activist knowledge circulates and is constructed.

Based on an ongoing research-creation project, we take a look at practices that are emerging outside the traditional funeral framework: the scattering of human ashes in "natural" spaces. While the ultimate aim is to add to the body of scientific knowledge around death and ashes (practices, imaginaries, gestures, public policy, citizenship, etc.), to achieve this, it aims to use creative methods of collection and analysis, that can best reveal the full breadth of these experiences.

To understand how care standards affect everyday elderly home care, I conducted fieldwork in rural Germany. I found that strict guidelines on the time spent on care tasks impact the bodies of nurses and clients, as well as carers’ routines. Moreover, they alter the living spaces of the clients. All these findings suggest that digital technologies and standardized procedures can significantly influence care quality and everyday intimate encounters in the home space.

In view of the increasingly polarising and emotionally charged geopolitical debates of recent times of war, the present article aims to understand the relationship between emotions and geopolitical imaginations with reference to Sara Ahmed's Cultural Politics of Emotions and introduces a methodologically viable approach for a qualitative-interpretative analysis of the emotionalisations of geopolitical discourses.

This study examines the impact of climate change on Alpine climbing routes in the western European Alps. By identifying the routes most frequented by French mountain guides across various Alpine massifs, the research combines historical comparisons, contemporary surveys and detailed mapping of geomorphological and glaciological processes.

Using an ecological and pragmatist approach, this article explores how a shared understanding of a problematic situation emerges within a public gathering. The analysis focuses on the protest held in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres, France) in October 2022, where several thousand people assembled to oppose the construction of substitution reservoirs (often referred to as "mega-basins").

This article examines how marginal collectives that organize around access to land and housing in Switzerland negotiate power dynamics to avoid reproducing existing inequalities. It considers what queer collective practices of organizing time, space, and labor add to these negotiations while also working to disrupt capitalist inequalities in contemporary urban contexts. These arguments are illustrated through examples from participatory observations.

This article shows how universities can quietly restrict speech on controversial topics like Palestine by using bureaucratic rules such as safety protocols not originally meant for censorship. These hidden barriers, which we call “trapdoors,” limit academic freedom without open debate. We draw on real examples and interviews to show how this silencing works, why it matters, and how it threatens democracy.

Drawing on case study research in Germany, our study shows that climate change adaptation activities of peripheral small towns differ substantially from those of larger, more well-resourced cities. The lack of institutional capacities fosters creative policy approaches that focus on creating and maintaining links between municipal administration and civil society and thus aim to establish adaptation as a shared societal task.

Drawing on almost 17 years of research and teaching experience in geography and planning at the University of Luxembourg, this intervention reflects on the importance of engaging with professional practice. However, encounters with practice have become conflicted over the years. As the title suggests, responding with silence and ignorance does not constitute policing. Nevertheless, such a political culture can prevent a publicly funded institution from fulfilling its core missions.

Ice aprons are little-known ice masses on steep Alpine rock faces. They are also paleo-environmental archives as their ice is several thousand years old. A special corer has been developed to sample the ice before analysing it.