"Discontinuities" Laboratory

The Geography Laboratory «Discontinuities» questions the transformation of the space of our societies through the discontinuity considered as an object or a process of rupture or transition whether social, temporal or spatial. The 11 researchers and PhD students who make up the team, led by Bernard Reitel, professor of political and urban geography, work on various themes. Three approaches are proposed. The first focuses on an analysis by actors in the field of political geography, social geography and economic geography, taking into account borders, school paths, mobility, business dynamics and urban transformations. A second approach questions the representations and construction of identities by studying the relationships between gender and public space, tourism, life trajectories. A third called socio-environmental, considers the convergence, or even hybridization, of social and environmental issues and shows the complexity of the arrangements by analyzing the vulnerabilities, pressures on spaces and the relationships of societies to their 'natural heritages'.

• Bernard Reitel
  Director