Résumés
Résumé
À travers des éléments d’histoire et d’épistémologie de la géographie et des sciences sociales, l’auteur pose et éclaire la question du choix fait par les géographes anglophones actuels de recourir (majoritairement) à la notion de sujet (subject) plutôt qu’à celle de soi (self). Après avoir rappelé l’intérêt relativement ancien d’une partie de la géographie pour la subjectivité, mais aussi la nécessité aujourd’hui largement admise de prendre en compte cette dernière pour mieux comprendre les transformations territoriales, l’auteur souligne combien la question de l’autonomie de l’individu a pu donner lieu à des conceptions divergentes finalement cristallisées par les notions de soi et de sujet. L’auteur se demande alors si en parlant de sujet (subject), les géographes qui font ce choix ne font pas aussi celui d’une conception appauvrissante de la subjectivité.
Mots-clés :
- Sujet,
- soi,
- individu,
- subjectivité,
- poststructuralisme,
- posthumanisme,
- pensée géographique
Abstract
Drawing on elements from the history and epistemology of geography and the social sciences, the author poses and clarifies issues surrounding the current tendency among many Anglophone geographers to favor the use of the term “the subject” over that of “the self”. Earlier generations of geographers demonstrated only limited interest in matters of subjectivity when compared with the perceived need today among geographers to explore more fully the subjective to better understant territorial transformations. The author stresses, however, how much this new emphasis has taken different directions related to diverging interpretations of the autonomy of the individual, and how these different directions have been crystallized in the current usages of the self and the subject. The author questions if the current favoring the subject over the self by geographers may not lead to a limited, and to some extent impoverished, sense of the subjective in geography.
Keywords:
- Self,
- individual,
- subject,
- subjectivity,
- post-structuralism,
- post-humanism,
- geographic thought
Resumen
A partir de los elementos históricos y epistemológicos de la Geografía y de las Ciencias Sociales, el autor expone y aclara la cuestión de la elección de los actuales geógrafos anglófonos de preferir (mayoritariamente) la noción de sujeto (subject) a la de sí mismo (self). El autor evoca el interés relativamente antiguo de la subjetividad por una parte de la Geografía y la necesidad, hoy generalmente admitida, de tomarla en cuenta para comprender mejor las transformaciones territoriales. El autor hace notar como la autonomía del individuo ha provocado concepciones divergentes, cristalizadas en las nociones de sí mismo y del sujeto. El autor se pregunta si los geógrafos, cuando hablan del sujeto (subject), no empobrecen la concepción de la subjetividad.
Palabras clave:
- Sujeto,
- sí mismo,
- individuo,
- subjetividad,
- post-estructuralismo,
- post-humanismo,
- pensamiento geográfico
Parties annexes
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