Books by Violaine Jolivet
http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25363, 2021
Esta ciudad, que me cautiva particularmente y que había conocido durante las últimas sacudidas de... more Esta ciudad, que me cautiva particularmente y que había conocido durante las últimas sacudidas del período especial, entre 2003 y 2009, empezó a cambiar a mayor ritmo mientras mantenía siempre cierta inmovilidad. Las excursiones de 2015 y 2017 fueron sin duda las más elocuentes; por un lado, La Habana se encontraba en un estado de agitación, nuevos lugares culturales y turísticos, grandes hoteles en construcción y casas renovadas se estaban vendiendo o rentando por Airbnb. Por otro lado, los recurrentes problemas de vivienda de la capital, los colapsos y las construcciones informales continuaban sucediendo regularmente. Durante esas dos visitas del 2015 y 2017 estaba en busca de colaboradores cubanos que pudiesen ayudarme a entender las mutaciones socio-espaciales de los barrios centrales de esta ciudad socialista a partir de 2011 con la reintroducción de la posibilidad de que los cubanos vendan o compren una casa. Llegué a esto gracias a mi encuentro con Ricardo Núñez, economista urbano que trabaja en el PNUD, que me fue presentado por un amigo común, Jorge Mario Egozcue Sánchez, y a mi acercamiento con la FLASCO-Cuba, donde el equipo de dirección y la Dra. Luisa Iñiguez aceptaron acoger y colaborar en mi proyecto. Luisa fue también quien me presentó a Carlos García Pleyan, urbanista incansable. Este trabajo tampoco pudiera haber visto la luz sin la participación de Mateo Alba Carmichael que trabaja conmigo desde el 2017, primero como asistente de investigación en el programa de maestría y luego como ingeniero de investigación. Los mapas presentados aquí fueron hechos por él. También queremos agradecer calurosamente al compañero Rodolphe Gonzalès (ingeniero
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Papers by Violaine Jolivet
TESG, 2023
This article addresses the two processes of market making and transnationalization in Havana thro... more This article addresses the two processes of market making and transnationalization in Havana through the lens of gentrification theory. Using a case study situated between Global South and East, this article looks more closely at transnational families and migrants as agents of gentrification in Havana, analysing how they create and exploit the rent-gap. Returning to the central ideas of ‘highest and best use’ and ‘circulations’ in N. Smith's rent-gap theory, I analyse how increased transnational mobility has affected the commodification and potential use of housing in Havana. Based on interviews with transnational owners who purchased housing to upgrade and convert into an Airbnb, this article shows how the “highest and best use” of a property is evaluated from elsewhere. It also demonstrates the complexities of transnational gentrification in a southern socialist city and insists on the need to understand more broadly the gentrification–migration nexus.
International Journal of Cuban Studies, 2021
This article addresses the commodification of housing in Havana from 2011 onwards. It argues that... more This article addresses the commodification of housing in Havana from 2011 onwards. It argues that the theories of gentrification and rent-gap can illuminate aspects of the transformation of the Cuban capital, even though these theories originated in capitalist urban contexts and that in Cuba the state is responsible for determining the value and ownership of land. The analysis of digital real estate ads on four platforms between 2012 and 2020 allows us to estimate the price and location of properties sold, their relationship to economic reinvestment in the central areas of the city, and how the geographic factors that define centrality are increasingly compromised by touristification and more generally by the commodification of housing. The urban transformations studied in this initial article on the real estate market and gentrification in the Cuban capital allow us to highlight that, on one hand, the transformation of housing into a commodity demonstrates the erosion of socialist ...
Urban Geography, 2022
This article explores a case of campus-led neighborhood change that weaves together an analysis o... more This article explores a case of campus-led neighborhood change that weaves together an analysis of gentrification, studentification and displacement. Contributing to the understanding of displacement pressure, this empirical study employs a temporal perspective and an innovative mixed method that captures the shifting state of the rental market and the perceptions of neighborhood change as understood by immigrant and low-income residents of Parc-Extension. We analyze how studentification is promoted in a campus-led gentrification case study, showing how both gentrification and studentification participate in the rise of evictions and displacement pressures for long term residents. By documenting the residential experience in rental housing through semi-structured interviews and data mining of rental listings on a popular platform in Canada (Kijiji), we propose an empirical perspective on displacement pressure and contribute to the development of this concept in gentrification and studentification studies. The article begins by reviewing the literature on gentrification-induced displacement, displacement pressure, state-led gentrification and studentification. This is followed by contextualizing our Montréal case study. We then outline our mixed methodologies and explain our data collection by web-scraping and fieldwork modalities. Finally, we discuss our results showing how the mechanism of displacement pressure can be linked with studentification and new-build, campus-led gentrification.
International Journal of Cuban Studies, 2021
Este artículo aborda la mercantilización de la vivienda en La Habana desde 2011 en adelante. Su... more Este artículo aborda la mercantilización de la vivienda en La Habana desde 2011 en adelante. Sustenta que las teorías de la gentrificación y del rent-gap pueden iluminar aspectos de la transformación de la capital cubana, aunque esas teorías fueron pensadas en contextos urbanos capitalistas y que la determinación del valor y la propiedad del suelo le corresponden en Cuba al Estado socialista. El análisis de los anuncios digitales de venta en cuatro plataformas entre 2012 y 2020 permite evaluar el precio y la ubicación de las propiedades a la venta, su relación con la reinversión económica en las áreas centrales de la ciudad y cómo los factores geográficos que definen la centralidad se ven cada vez más comprometidos por la turistificación y en general por la mercantilización de la vivienda. Las transformaciones urbanas estudiadas en este artículo pionero sobre el mercado inmobiliario y la gentrificación en la capital cubana permiten destacar, por un lado, que la transformación de la vivienda en una mercancía demuestra la erosión de los valores socialistas en la producción urbana y, por otro, que la creación de un mercado inmobiliario en La Habana ha reforzado la conexión de la ciudad cubana con las circulaciones transnacionales capitalistas.
El artículo considera el contexto económico y político en el que se forma este mercado, luego explica la metodología de big-small data en un contexto de acceso escaso a la información, seguido por un análisis caracterizando el mercado habanero que examina la importancia de la centralidad espacial y de los flujos transnacionales de personas y capital.
Justice Spatiale / Spatial Justice, 2021
En abordant le concept de stigmatisation par l’espace, cet article entend démontrer le caractère ... more En abordant le concept de stigmatisation par l’espace, cet article entend démontrer le caractère dynamique de ce processus demarquage et de mise à la marge de certains territoires urbains et de leurs habitants. Dans un contexte comme celui de Montréal-Nord quicumule les vulnérabilités sociales et affiche une très forte concentration de populations racisées, il est important d’interroger le lien entre race et espace dans le processus de stigmatisation. Notre analyse, qui s’appuie sur des données empiriques récoltées entre2016 et2019, souligne le rôle des politiques publiques dans la marginalisation du secteur nord-est. Elle dévoilenotamment un déni des gouvernements locaux face à des inégalités sociospatiales et,par làmême,le caractère intentionnel de la mise à l’écart des populations racisées. Alors que les discriminations raciales restent un impensé des politiques de lutte contre les inégalités au Québec, il semble essentield’interroger la façon dont la politique de revitalisation urbaine et les formes de l’action publique s’appliquent surun secteur de l’arrondissement nord-montréalais sans se donner les moyens d’intégrer leursrevendications ou usages du quartier malgré les consultations proposées aux habitants.Notre hypothèse est que la politique de revitalisation, conçuede manièreparticipative, aborde le quartier comme un support neutre sur lequel il faut agir, vidant l’espace de sa dimension vécue et invisibilisant les rapports de domination au fondement de sa stigmatisation.La revitalisation du quartier et la lutte contre sa stigmatisation par les politiques locales contribuent, dans le cas de Montréal-Nord, à soumettre les pratiques de l’espace public à des normeset à gommer l’enjeu des inégalités raciales et sociales au profit d’aménagements valorisant un idéal d’intégration des communautés issues de l’immigration.
Justice Spatial / Spatiale Justice, 2021
By addressing the concept of spatial stigmatization, this article intends to demonstrate the dyna... more By addressing the concept of spatial stigmatization, this article intends to demonstrate the dynamic nature of this process of marking and marginalization of certain urban territories and their inhabitants. In a context such as Montréal-Nord which accumulates social vulnerabilities and has a very high concentration of racialized populations, it is necessary to question the link between race and space in the stigmatization process. Our analysis, which is based on empirical data collected between 2016 and 2019, highlights the role of public policies in the marginalization of the Northeast District. It demonstrates in particular the denial of local governments in the face of sociospatial inequalities and thus the intentional nature of the marginalization of racialized populations. While racial discrimination remains an unthought-of issue in Québec's policies to fight inequality, it seems important to question the way in which urban revitalization policy and forms of public action apply to a district of Montréal-Nord borough after consultation with the inhabitants but without giving themselves the means to integrate their demands or uses of the neighbourhood. Our hypothesis is that the revitalization policy, thought of as participatory, essentially approaches the neighbourhood as a neutral support on which to act, emptying the space of its lived dimension and thus invisibilizing the relations of domination on the basis of its stigmatization. In the case of Montréal-Nord, the revitalization of the neighbourhood and the fight against its stigmatization by local policies contribute to normalizing the practices of public space and to erasing the issue of racial and social inequalities in favour of developments that promote an ideal of integration of immigrant communities.
The Parc-Extension neighborhood is located to the North of the Montreal downtown core, and is bor... more The Parc-Extension neighborhood is located to the North of the Montreal downtown core, and is bordered by Town of Mount-Royal (to the West), Outremont and Marconi-Alexandra (to the South), Rosemont (to the East) and shopping district Marché Central to the North.
Parc-Extension has a high proportion of low-income immigrant and racialized residents, and a strong community network.
In September 2019, the Université de Montréal opened its new Campus MIL on the south edge of the neighborhood.
Residents of Parc-Extension are already feeling the impact of the new campus, less than one year after the opening.
Key findings
Housing. The opening of the new campus has caused rent hikes, evictions, and the displacement of residents, in a context characterized by low vacancy rates in Parc-Extension and in Montreal more broadly.
Community. Community groups have been displaced and support networks are being destabilized.
Studentification and professionalization. A specific form of gentrification is occurring, caused by an influx of Université de Montréal students to the neighborhood and a speculative housing market. This will accelerate a broader professionalization process in the neighbourhood: between censuses 2006 and 2016, the rate of people holding a B.A degree and more rose from 15% to 21% and the rate of households making 80 000 $ and more rose from 4.6% to 16.5%.
Missed opportunities
Good intentions, little action. Despite public messaging, the Université de Montréal has failed to act or take responsibility for their impact on Parc-Extension.
Student housing. The University included student housing in their initial plans, but has since sold this land to private developers.
Lack of transparency. Many proactive attempts were made by the community to develop a mitigation strategy, but documentation shows the University has not meaningfully engaged with these efforts.
Moving forward
Dialogue and mitigate. The authors call on the Université de Montréal to enter into dialogue and commit to using its position for mitigation.
Many models. Many universities have taken leadership in partnering with local communities. The Université de Montréal can learn from them.
Non-profit student housing. The University should offer on-campus student housing, and work with the government to develop a province-wide strategy for non-profit student housing.
Collaborate and support. Identify, in collaboration with local community groups, ways for supporting projects that are already working to mitigate the problems that affect Parc-Extension, for example, community housing projects.
Espaces Populations Sociétés, 2017
This article aims to analyze how the use of media and information and telecommunication technolog... more This article aims to analyze how the use of media and information and telecommunication technologies (ICTs), are reshaping the territoriality of migration. Through the concepts of relational space and multiple attachments (anchors), it is examining the relational modes between distant places enabled by ICTs and how they are reshaping the sense of belonging for people of Haitian origin. Through the diachronic study of media practices within the Haitian community in Montreal, from anti-Duvalier exiles to a transnational community, it will query how media sustain the creation of connected belongings and attachments.
Cybergéo Revue Européenne de Géographie, 2017
Debates on territorial marketing at an international scale pay more and more attention to quality... more Debates on territorial marketing at an international scale pay more and more attention to quality of life and urban sustainability as competitive advantages to attract international investments. Yet few studies have provided insights into the entanglements between cities’ globalization and urban metabolism at the local scale. This paper aims to understand their long-term impact on the transformations of Saint-Michel, an inner suburb in Montréal (Quebec, Canada). Local extraction (quarries) and accumulation (garbage) have always had a significant place in the more general shaping of the metropolitan area. Those issues question the economic, political and environmental challenges of the globalization process through a situated and contextualized point of view.
Cahier des Amériques latines, 2017
This article deals with the evolution of Cuba’s relational geography and specifically addresses t... more This article deals with the evolution of Cuba’s relational geography and specifically addresses the new mobility with the United States. The paper intends to question the impact of these changes on spatial practices and representations of "outside" from the island. Mobility between Cuba and the USA has changed drastically since the last decade amending, on both sides of the Florida Straits, the way in which people, capital, information, and goods move. This paper underlines that mobility from local to transnational evidences the socio-spatial mutations under way in Cuba and promotes the emergence of a more fluid territoriality. This article examines the modalities of a Cuban-American transnationalism and the transformations of territoriality through the development of ICT and real estate in Havana.
Miami is a true destinies exchanger, the main port of the American Mediterranean sea, an essentia... more Miami is a true destinies exchanger, the main port of the American Mediterranean sea, an essential cross-road city of the relational geography between the Americas. The territorial anchorage of this American city between North and South was favored by the Cuban migration since the victory of Castro Revolution (1959) and the following massive influx of Caribbean and Latin-American immigrants which networks and circulations tirelessly redraw the limits of South Florida metropolitan area. With over 60% of its population who declare Hispanics in the last census (2010), Miami is also described as an ethnic or cultural cauldron. This paper aims to analyze through the study of languages, sounds and music the multiple territorializations under construction. The soundscape is a central concept of our analysis as it describes a geographical place by its sounds and allows to highlight the complexity of a relational approach of territories
http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/informations-scientifiques/a-la-une/carte-a-la-une/carte-a-la-u... more http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/informations-scientifiques/a-la-une/carte-a-la-une/carte-a-la-une-miami-ville-sonore
Miami ville sonore est une carte interactive réalisée à partir de la récolte d'échantillons sonores dans la ville de Miami. La carte a été produite pour démontrer l’importance des sons comme composante de notre rapport aux espaces vécus, visités, traversés et permet à l’utilisateur de parcourir à son gré la ville ou de suivre des parcours thématiques commentés qui donnent des indications sur les échantillons sonores et les ambiances écoutées.
https://echogeo.revues.org/14292
La notion de dépaysement est souvent abordée en géographie notam... more https://echogeo.revues.org/14292
La notion de dépaysement est souvent abordée en géographie notamment quand il s’agit d’évoquer le terrain ou des champs de la géographie comme les mobilités et plus particulièrement le tourisme. Cependant il est rare que les géographes s’intéressent à cette notion pour une mobilité professionnelle et c’est ce que cet article se propose de faire sous la forme d’un récit personnel. Toutefois ce récit d’un dépaysement prend des allures particulières car il s’attache à conter le passage d’un continent à un autre, tout en restant au sein de pays francophones. La position de la géographie humaine au Québec est alors explorée et donne à réfléchir sur la combinaison de modes opératoires au sein de la géographie québécoise à la fois si loin et si proche de la géographie française.
In this article we examine the nature and implementation of governing strategies to control the g... more In this article we examine the nature and implementation of governing strategies to control the gentrification of Little Havana, the symbolic heart of Cuban Miami. We ask how Cuban-American power relations at the neighborhood level operate to "produce" the citizen best suited to fulfill and help reproduce policies and practices of "securing" in order to gentrify Little Havana. Based on long-term ethnographic research in Little Havana and Miami, our analysis reveals how governance operates through neighborhood-level intermediaries and interpersonal relations. We apply Foucault's "pastoral power" to Miami's Cuban exile community in order to explain how the "Cuban-ness" and "Latin-ness" of governing relations and the personification of political power are crucial to socio-spatial control in Little Havana. Elites shape the conduct of individuals in order to achieve strategic goals in the name of community interest. Residents are key partners in the relational ensemble that governs and disciplines the neighborhood comprised mostly of low-income, Central American immigrants.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2014
In this article we examine the nature and implementation of governing strategies to control the g... more In this article we examine the nature and implementation of governing strategies to control the gentrification of Little Havana, the symbolic heart of Cuban Miami. We ask how Cuban-American power relations at the neighborhood level operate to “produce” the citizen best suited to fulfill and help reproduce policies and practices of “securing” in order to gentrify Little Havana. Based on long-term ethnographic research in Little Havana and Miami, our analysis reveals how governance operates through neighborhood-level intermediaries and interpersonal relations. We apply Foucault’s “pastoral power” to Miami's Cuban exile community in order to explain how the “Cuban-ness” and “Latin-ness” of governing relations and the personification of political power are crucial to socio-spatial control in Little Havana. Elites shape the conduct of individuals in order to achieve strategic goals in the name of community interest. Residents are key partners in the relational ensemble that governs and disciplines the neighborhood comprised mostly of low-income, Central American immigrants.
Miami is a « swing city » between the North and the South of the American continent : El dorado
... more Miami is a « swing city » between the North and the South of the American continent : El dorado
for many people from the Caribbean and Latin America it also serves as a fresh concrete slab to
gain for speculators and developers from all walks of life. This city, which recently emerged in the hierarchy of American cities, concentrates heterogeneous populations with a diverse array of urban
practices and representations of the city. Since the 1960s and the victory of Castro’s revolution, Miami is the theater of incessant migrations and a remarkable urban sprawl extending the agglomeration to the South and the West of the county. In this very weakly planned urban area, the rapid urban changes (demographic and economic) question the current processes of urban «distancing»: segregation and fragmentation. In this article, we try to understand how intense circulations that drive the city played in the advent of spatial, social and affective distances characteristic of Miami
BAGF Vol. 87 n°3, pp. 324-335.
Cet article présente la situation des Haïtiens en République Dominicaine à partir d'enquêtes de t... more Cet article présente la situation des Haïtiens en République Dominicaine à partir d'enquêtes de terrains menées à Santo Domingo (2006)(2007)(2008). Le choix de la notion de visibilité questionne l'omniprésence des Haïtiens dans le pays voisin depuis une vingtaine d'années mais leur invisibilité de fait et de droit. Le couple visibilité/invisibilité permet d'interroger les logiques géopolitiques mais également économiques comme les représentations et leurs rôles dans les processus d'intégration socio-spatiale des immigrants. (2006)(2007)(2008). Visibility as a concept is useful to compare the omnipresence of Haitian migrants all over the country in one hand but their invisibility in several fields as legality on the other hand. The study of these two notions (visibility/invisibility) allows the interrogation of geopolitical and economical frameworks and the representations in the process of immigrant's integration.
Chapters by Violaine Jolivet
Géographies du Politique, 2022
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El artículo considera el contexto económico y político en el que se forma este mercado, luego explica la metodología de big-small data en un contexto de acceso escaso a la información, seguido por un análisis caracterizando el mercado habanero que examina la importancia de la centralidad espacial y de los flujos transnacionales de personas y capital.
Parc-Extension has a high proportion of low-income immigrant and racialized residents, and a strong community network.
In September 2019, the Université de Montréal opened its new Campus MIL on the south edge of the neighborhood.
Residents of Parc-Extension are already feeling the impact of the new campus, less than one year after the opening.
Key findings
Housing. The opening of the new campus has caused rent hikes, evictions, and the displacement of residents, in a context characterized by low vacancy rates in Parc-Extension and in Montreal more broadly.
Community. Community groups have been displaced and support networks are being destabilized.
Studentification and professionalization. A specific form of gentrification is occurring, caused by an influx of Université de Montréal students to the neighborhood and a speculative housing market. This will accelerate a broader professionalization process in the neighbourhood: between censuses 2006 and 2016, the rate of people holding a B.A degree and more rose from 15% to 21% and the rate of households making 80 000 $ and more rose from 4.6% to 16.5%.
Missed opportunities
Good intentions, little action. Despite public messaging, the Université de Montréal has failed to act or take responsibility for their impact on Parc-Extension.
Student housing. The University included student housing in their initial plans, but has since sold this land to private developers.
Lack of transparency. Many proactive attempts were made by the community to develop a mitigation strategy, but documentation shows the University has not meaningfully engaged with these efforts.
Moving forward
Dialogue and mitigate. The authors call on the Université de Montréal to enter into dialogue and commit to using its position for mitigation.
Many models. Many universities have taken leadership in partnering with local communities. The Université de Montréal can learn from them.
Non-profit student housing. The University should offer on-campus student housing, and work with the government to develop a province-wide strategy for non-profit student housing.
Collaborate and support. Identify, in collaboration with local community groups, ways for supporting projects that are already working to mitigate the problems that affect Parc-Extension, for example, community housing projects.
Miami ville sonore est une carte interactive réalisée à partir de la récolte d'échantillons sonores dans la ville de Miami. La carte a été produite pour démontrer l’importance des sons comme composante de notre rapport aux espaces vécus, visités, traversés et permet à l’utilisateur de parcourir à son gré la ville ou de suivre des parcours thématiques commentés qui donnent des indications sur les échantillons sonores et les ambiances écoutées.
La notion de dépaysement est souvent abordée en géographie notamment quand il s’agit d’évoquer le terrain ou des champs de la géographie comme les mobilités et plus particulièrement le tourisme. Cependant il est rare que les géographes s’intéressent à cette notion pour une mobilité professionnelle et c’est ce que cet article se propose de faire sous la forme d’un récit personnel. Toutefois ce récit d’un dépaysement prend des allures particulières car il s’attache à conter le passage d’un continent à un autre, tout en restant au sein de pays francophones. La position de la géographie humaine au Québec est alors explorée et donne à réfléchir sur la combinaison de modes opératoires au sein de la géographie québécoise à la fois si loin et si proche de la géographie française.
for many people from the Caribbean and Latin America it also serves as a fresh concrete slab to
gain for speculators and developers from all walks of life. This city, which recently emerged in the hierarchy of American cities, concentrates heterogeneous populations with a diverse array of urban
practices and representations of the city. Since the 1960s and the victory of Castro’s revolution, Miami is the theater of incessant migrations and a remarkable urban sprawl extending the agglomeration to the South and the West of the county. In this very weakly planned urban area, the rapid urban changes (demographic and economic) question the current processes of urban «distancing»: segregation and fragmentation. In this article, we try to understand how intense circulations that drive the city played in the advent of spatial, social and affective distances characteristic of Miami
Chapters by Violaine Jolivet
El artículo considera el contexto económico y político en el que se forma este mercado, luego explica la metodología de big-small data en un contexto de acceso escaso a la información, seguido por un análisis caracterizando el mercado habanero que examina la importancia de la centralidad espacial y de los flujos transnacionales de personas y capital.
Parc-Extension has a high proportion of low-income immigrant and racialized residents, and a strong community network.
In September 2019, the Université de Montréal opened its new Campus MIL on the south edge of the neighborhood.
Residents of Parc-Extension are already feeling the impact of the new campus, less than one year after the opening.
Key findings
Housing. The opening of the new campus has caused rent hikes, evictions, and the displacement of residents, in a context characterized by low vacancy rates in Parc-Extension and in Montreal more broadly.
Community. Community groups have been displaced and support networks are being destabilized.
Studentification and professionalization. A specific form of gentrification is occurring, caused by an influx of Université de Montréal students to the neighborhood and a speculative housing market. This will accelerate a broader professionalization process in the neighbourhood: between censuses 2006 and 2016, the rate of people holding a B.A degree and more rose from 15% to 21% and the rate of households making 80 000 $ and more rose from 4.6% to 16.5%.
Missed opportunities
Good intentions, little action. Despite public messaging, the Université de Montréal has failed to act or take responsibility for their impact on Parc-Extension.
Student housing. The University included student housing in their initial plans, but has since sold this land to private developers.
Lack of transparency. Many proactive attempts were made by the community to develop a mitigation strategy, but documentation shows the University has not meaningfully engaged with these efforts.
Moving forward
Dialogue and mitigate. The authors call on the Université de Montréal to enter into dialogue and commit to using its position for mitigation.
Many models. Many universities have taken leadership in partnering with local communities. The Université de Montréal can learn from them.
Non-profit student housing. The University should offer on-campus student housing, and work with the government to develop a province-wide strategy for non-profit student housing.
Collaborate and support. Identify, in collaboration with local community groups, ways for supporting projects that are already working to mitigate the problems that affect Parc-Extension, for example, community housing projects.
Miami ville sonore est une carte interactive réalisée à partir de la récolte d'échantillons sonores dans la ville de Miami. La carte a été produite pour démontrer l’importance des sons comme composante de notre rapport aux espaces vécus, visités, traversés et permet à l’utilisateur de parcourir à son gré la ville ou de suivre des parcours thématiques commentés qui donnent des indications sur les échantillons sonores et les ambiances écoutées.
La notion de dépaysement est souvent abordée en géographie notamment quand il s’agit d’évoquer le terrain ou des champs de la géographie comme les mobilités et plus particulièrement le tourisme. Cependant il est rare que les géographes s’intéressent à cette notion pour une mobilité professionnelle et c’est ce que cet article se propose de faire sous la forme d’un récit personnel. Toutefois ce récit d’un dépaysement prend des allures particulières car il s’attache à conter le passage d’un continent à un autre, tout en restant au sein de pays francophones. La position de la géographie humaine au Québec est alors explorée et donne à réfléchir sur la combinaison de modes opératoires au sein de la géographie québécoise à la fois si loin et si proche de la géographie française.
for many people from the Caribbean and Latin America it also serves as a fresh concrete slab to
gain for speculators and developers from all walks of life. This city, which recently emerged in the hierarchy of American cities, concentrates heterogeneous populations with a diverse array of urban
practices and representations of the city. Since the 1960s and the victory of Castro’s revolution, Miami is the theater of incessant migrations and a remarkable urban sprawl extending the agglomeration to the South and the West of the county. In this very weakly planned urban area, the rapid urban changes (demographic and economic) question the current processes of urban «distancing»: segregation and fragmentation. In this article, we try to understand how intense circulations that drive the city played in the advent of spatial, social and affective distances characteristic of Miami
Although largely unknown, these trans-American connections are deeply engraved in history, as evidenced by trade relations, banking, the circulation of Canadian Catholic missions and academics in the Caribbean region, and later the creation in 1967 of a Centre for Research on the Caribbean at the Université de Montréal. More recently, these transcontinental relations have come to involve multiple areas such as environmental protection, participation in regional development projects, transnational migrations and narratives on shared memories. These are keys essential to understanding “Our America”.
Exploring these plural relations specific to Quebec, Canada and the Caribbean problematizes the too simple assumption of US hegemony in the Caribbean. Focusing on links between the Caribbean and Quebec and English Canada sheds new light on the Americas beyond the too frequent assertion of binary oppositions between North and South. This conference aims to highlight the contemporary implications and ongoing legacies of such connections and to give voice to researchers, creators and smugglers from the Caribbean, from Quebec and Canada and especially people who live, think and work “between” the Caribbean, Quebec and Canada.
This transdisciplinary conference aims to open spaces for exploration and definition of multiple ties, interactions and networks so as to better make sense of the spatial-temporal roots and routes that create and sustain trans-American relationships. The event will use French as the main language of discussion, but we encourage the presentation of papers in English and Spanish as well as French.
“Caribbean” is to be understood in an enlarged geographic sense to including the Caribbean littoral of the Central American isthmus as well as the islands. The Caribbean and the circum-Caribbean will be analyzed as a crossroads at the heart of the Americas whose identity/ies were shaped through a great variety of mobilities over time and space. We seek to understand the particular kinds and meanings of the many relations – economic, political, social, cultural, artistic – that have brought our wide-flung territories into contact with each other in the past and the present, looking toward the future.
The symposium and the proposals will be organized around the six themes that follow:
1Migration, mobilities and transnationalism
2 Integration and regional cooperation
3 Environment and natural resources
4 Diplomatic relations: foreign policies and multinational organisations
5 Histories and memories
6 Arts and Literature