Social sciences and humanities make use of textual corpuses. By surrounding various practical analyses with theoretical reflexions, this work mixes fields, methods, softwares and points of view in order to reveal specificities and variations, but also show tools and solution which fields can exchange with each other.

This book examines the development of geography as a recognised discipline in France, Prussia and Great-Britain between 1780 and 1860.It focuses, in particular, on the relationship between geographical knowledge and politics.

This book is the first collection published in French which intends to compare different civil societies of Southeast Asia. On the basis of first-hand data, it analyzes the impact of inherited cultural frameworks, including social structures highly hierarchical, on political conceptions, and the current configuration of local public spheres.

How do we become a tourist? Can we rethink tourism globalization looking at the "arts of doing" of those who invent it today? This book provides a perspective from Việt Nam, a country that is still poor but has observed a significant growth of domestic tourism over the past twenty years.

The notion of social acceptance is omnipresent in spatial planning policies. Impact assessments, participative policies, good governance practices or the social sustainability of planning projects implicitly reveal the importance of such a concern. This book aims at bringing to the light the acceptability criteria of spatial development projects.

The orientalism of french Arabists is a highly controversial point because of their involvment in colonial expansionism; it has for this reason not been an historical scope of investigation yet. Through an analysis of their careers, their publications and intellectual positions, this book presents the political and scholarly issues of their action.