17 % des français·es en âge de conduire ne possèdent pas le permis de conduire. L’article fait état de la morphologie sociale de cette population, en considérant à la fois son état actuel et ses conditions sociales d’origine pour mieux saisir la diversité des trajectoires sociales associée à cette non-possession. L’hypothèse centrale est la suivante : avoir le permis renvoie à des logiques de cumulativité des ressources possédées ou mobilisables. Les fractions les plus populaires et les plus féminisées ne peuvent l’obtenir du fait de la faiblesse des ressources immédiatement disponibles, et de leur plus faible légitimité. Enfin, l’approche de cette diversité des « sans-permis » par les trajectoires sociales montre que les plus éloigné·es du permis le sont bien avant d’avoir l’âge de pousser la porte d’une auto-école.

In the Spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed dwellings worldwide into focal points of daily life. This mixed-methods study examines how women in various residential situations adapted when faced with pandemic challenges and how their adaptations influenced the meanings of home and mental health. A pool of 538 working mothers was identified from Quebec's MAVIPAN repeated measures survey to test if their residential situations, marked by their multiple social roles as mothers, workers, wives, or teachers, and various housing conditions, were associated with mental health and their meanings of home. Four profiles of residential situations were identified through multiple factor analysis (MFA), and 33 women belonging to these profiles were interviewed. Quantitative explorations and ChatGPT-4-assisted thematic analysis revealed conditional associations linking vulnerable residential situations to adaptation difficulties, low mental health scores, and negative feelings toward home, applying to women in blended or single-parent families, in small dwellings, or self-employed.

Naya Ambhora, a multi-caste agrarian settlement in Maharashtra, Central India, emerged from the displacement of four villages submerged by the Gosikhurd dam. Over 15 years have passed since this once-thriving farmland was transformed into a resettlement site, leaving behind submerged ruins and fractured communities across an altered riverine landscape. What has become of the farmers, daily labourers, small merchants and fishermen who once lived there? Have caste-based inequalities endured, or have they taken new forms? This article builds on previous analyses of displacement in Naya Ambhora, offering a deeper examination of its material and symbolic dimensions in relation to caste. It highlights how resettlement policies often reinforce existing caste and class inequalities, exacerbating disparities precisely when communities most need stability. By exploring how displaced families navigate the inequitable realities of resettlement—whether by bypassing, resisting or adapting to them—this study provides critical insights into the long-term impacts of displacement, particularly for scholars and policymakers seeking to understand the intersection of caste and forced displacement.

The application of the psycho-social paradigm of social representations in geographical studies is rather recent. However, this approach is considered to complement the work conducted in social geography where non-directive interview methods are often used. The main hypothesis of this paper is that mobility practice is not only influenced by the accessibility to transport infrastructures, but also structured by social representations about mobility, housing, and job. Based on a corpus of semi-structured interviews with 69 Franco-Luxembourgish cross-border commuters, the Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) is employed to explore relations between different types of social representations and mobility practice. This mixed method allows to integrate both quantitative statistical data and qualitative discursive data. It is concluded that social representations can be envisaged as a theoretical approach to understanding mobility practice, and that the daily mobility practice is socially structured depending on various social representations of individuals which are also shaped by their social positions or social trajectories. Challenges related to the use of mixed methods in the research are also addressed in the methodological discussion.

L'article propose d'analyser la position sémio-spatiale d'un élément géographique, en l'occurrence une frontière d'État, dans les cartes cognitives d'une ville frontalière. Sur le plan théorique, le recours au concept sémiologique de topos et la notion de position permettent de saisir les significations d'un élément géographique en fonction des positions sociales, afin de cerner leur contribution au positionnement de l'élément dans la carte cognitive. Méthodologiquement, cette analyse requiert une étroite intégration d'une tache discursive aux méthodes plus classiques de la cartographie cognitive.

NOTE DE L'AUTEURLa mise en avant d'un travail « pluridisciplinaire », tout en valorisant toujours davantage les modes de reconnaissance nominatifs (par rang ou par nom unique), nous incite à préciser que l'ordre alphabétique des auteurs indique, simplement, un travail où chacun a contribué à parts égales et « au même titre », dans un souci de mettre la recherche collective au fondement des activités scientifiques.

La psychologie sociale s’interesse a la construction d’une decision consensuelle en l’abordant initialement sous l’angle du compromis. A partir du milieu des annees 1960 les travaux menes en psychologie experimentale mettent en evidence un phenomene de polarisation dans la formation du consensus (Moscovici et Zavalloni, 1969). Ces recherches ont permis de renouveler la comprehension des processus cognitifs a l’œuvre dans un groupe, et de distinguer les conditions sociales qui participent a la formation d’un compromis. Des lors, plutot que d’opposer le conformisme a la deviance, le consensus polarise offre la possibilite de saisir autrement les conflits au sein d’un groupe. Ainsi la proposition d’un conflit socio-cognitif emerge et est examinee (Doise et al., 1998). Le present article passe en revue l’evolution de ces travaux, et discute en conclusion de la faible place accordee aux enjeux sociaux entre les groupes.

Since most research on economic metropolisation has until now concentrated on "high added value" workers on both sides of the border, little place is left for analysis either of the less valued categories in the process of metropolisation, or of the diversity of jobs within the regional labour markets. What, then, is the position of less favoured social categories in the evolution of cross-border metropolises over the last decades, when compared with managers or other liberal professions? To answer this question, a case study is carried out here on the cross-border commuters in the Lorraine Region (France), who participate in great numbers in the metropolisation of Luxembourg, by comparing them to those who work in France. The objective of this article is to give an account of the spatiotemporal evolution of the principal social classes among the cross-border commuters, based on the French population censuses. These databases, from 1968 to the present day, are comparable both in the time and space. The results confirm that a cross-border metropolis of Luxembourg has been formed, notably since the 1990s, by a substantial increase of highly qualified cross-border commuters, as well as by an augmentation of the less qualified workforce during this period: thus, in the Region of Lorraine, even in 2013, the share of the cross-border working class (commuting to Luxembourg) remains greater than that of the working class within France. Moreover, complex links exist in the phenomenon of metropolisation between historical social segregations and specifically metropolitan segregations in terms of the socio-spatial organisation of the territory in question: for example, the secondary urban centres of the French metropolitan area, such as Thionville or Metz, serve as a residential reservoir for the most highly qualified cross-border commuters, especially when this type of workforce has already been observed in these agglomerations in the past. Primary results point to the need to learn more about the conditions of different residential trajectories, as well as about the social status of different workforces on each side of the border.

This article is based on a body of research on spatial cognition in order to show, on the one hand, that still scattered results argue in favour of a social construction of "mental maps", and on the other hand, that it is by combining the analysis of the social meanings of geographical space (environmental cognition) with that of the topological distributions of geographical elements internalised by individuals (spatial cognition) that it is possible to account for this socialisation of cognitive mapping. The author thus questions the reasons that hinder a socio-cognitive analysis of "mental maps", whereas, moreover, cartographic representations are now widely recognised as being social constructions. He proposes to promote this articulation between spatial and environmental cognition by exploring in an interdisciplinary manner the hypothesis that the social meanings of space serve as a kind of "geographical coordinates" for cognitive representations of space.

Cet article s’appuie sur un ensemble de recherches sur la cognition spatiale afin de montrer, d’une part, que des résultats encore éparses plaident un faveur d’une construction sociale des « cartes mentales », et d’autre part, que c’est en conjuguant l’analyse des significations sociales de l’espace géographique (cognition environnementale) avec celle des distributions topologiques des éléments géographiques intériorisées par les individus (cognition spatiale) qu’il est possible de rendre compte de cette socialisation de la cartographie cognitive. L’auteur interroge ainsi les raisons qui font obstacle à une analyse socio-cognitive des « cartes mentales », alors que, par ailleurs, les représentations cartographiques sont maintenant largement reconnues comme étant des constructions sociales. Il propose de favoriser cette articulation entre cognition spatiale et environnementale en explorant de manière interdisciplinaire l’hypothèse selon laquelle les significations sociales de l’espace servent en quelque sorte de « coordonnées géographiques » aux représentations cognitives de l’espace.

LENEL, Emmanuelle (dir.) (2018) L’espace des sociologues. Recherches contemporaines en compagnie de Jean Remy, Toulouse, Éditions Érès, 296 p. (ISBN 978-2-74925-812-6). Un article de la revue Cahiers de géographie du Québec (Les villes et les territoires face au genre : état des lieux) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Between 2004 and 2012, the conditions of a "forced displacement" of rural populations linked to the construction of a dam in central India were studied. New studies conducted since 2014 have analysed the consequences and explored partially submerged areas to highlight the socio-spatial approaches embodied by elements of the "new" landscape as experienced daily. This article analyses the effects of the transformations in the landscape brought about by the Gosikhurd dam and how they bring to light issues in the relocation of a social environment composed of castes.