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Several recent urban policies plan to reduce the role of the automobile in French cities. While it may be varied, households’ appreciation of this “top-down” incentive is often poorly analysed, especially if it comes from working class households that are most likely to be weakened by the dropping out their car. Through this article, we will show that, beyond their absolute economic conditions, household relations with the car reflect a misery of position, which refers to the perception of their positioning in the social space and which is likely to change according to their trajectory, their socialization. The argumentation of the article is based on a biographical interview survey conducted in four French urban areas (Bordeaux, Dijon, Lyon and Paris) with people who have given up, by force or not, the use or possession of a motor vehicle for daily travel.

En el presente texto los autores se interrogan sobre las razones y la función territorial y urbana de la singular Nagasaki. Este enclave fue ibérico en origen y fundación, pero desarrollado posteriormente al modo nipón hasta nuestros días. El secular aislamiento del archipiélago japonés, llamado por muchos sakoku 鎖国, que viene a significar “país encadenado”, implica que las influencias occidentales no sean muy profundas ni duraderas y de ahí la originalidad de este enclave asiático. Sin embargo, es en el arte Nanban donde la efervescencia generada por el encuentro cultural entre oriente y occidente se plasma en objetos artísticos de gran belleza y que son a la vez reveladores documentos históricos.

L’examen d’un grand nombre d’images du Livre Rouge de C. G. Jung révèle un parallélisme étroit avec les dessins et peintures du scientifique allemand, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). En tant que biologiste évolutionniste travaillant sur l’embryologie comparative, Haeckel a formulé la « loi biogénétique » selon laquelle l’ontogénèse récapitule la phylogénèse. Cette idée influença les fondateurs de la psychanalyse, Freud et Jung, dans leurs théories sur l’activité mentale. Cette contribution met en évidence les différences dans l’usage de la « loi » haeckelienne chez Freud et Jung, ainsi que la façon dont Jung en intègre certains aspects dans sa théorie des archétypes. Même si Jung ne cite pas Haeckel directement dans ses œuvres théoriques, il est intéressant d’observer comment il intègre certains modèles produits par le biologiste-artiste dans la série des « mandalas » du Livre Rouge, et de considérer d’éventuelles implications pour les théories de la mémoire.

Review of:Jürgen Miethke, De potestate papae. Die päpstliche Amtskompetenz im Widerstreit der politischen Theorie von Thomas Aquinas bis Wilhelm von Ockham, (Spätmittelalter und Reformation. Neue Reihe 16), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2000, X, 347 S., ISBN 3-16-147480-5

International political speeches on « energy transition » sometimes forget to see things from a ground level and to root their analyses on collective history. In order to reach the best balances, they set up goals which are related to changes in the way of living without taking into account how those changes happen. However, from a « bottom perspective », energy transition does not proceed from an homogeneous and automatic transposition of these goals. Moreover, in order to search social consequences of the past transformations in the energy mix, some social agents sometimes refer to past experiences. Then, they associate their conclusions with changes in the ways of living. Studding such a process at the scale of an area like Gardanne, in the mist of a former mining area in Provence (Bouche-du-Rhône, France), will allow us to grasp the energy transition from other perspectives. In fact, since the beginning of 1990, this city has anticipated the stop of the local coal extraction and has started a change in its energy model. One of the aspects of this anticipation is to be found both in the way people consume and in their behaviors towards energy. It also raises questions about the local cohesion, based on productive and symbolical dimensions related to energy. In this example, economic, symbolic and energy transitions are linked and can let us question the complexity of transformations in the social organization when those transformations are related to changes in the energy model. The article is based on a two-year survey, conducted in a local area, on different scales, in order to observe a current energy transition, from a perspective which is diachronic and synchronic.

Can the inversion of gender relations lead to social mobility from the point of view of the respondents? This is the central question of this article. The argument is based on a contextualised approach to upward social mobility in working-class circles, that of Hélène Ramon, 38 years old, a dental technician, separated, mother of a ten-year-old daughter. This case study constitutes the main material for the reflection. It will show how Hélène Ramon’s feeling of mobility, if it can be understood on the basis of variables such as educational capital or professional position, comes to be duplicated to find its main meaning through the inversion of the order of gender positions in the respondent's kinship group.