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The Regional Discourse of French Geography in the Context of Indochina: the Theses of Charles Robequain and Pierre Gourou Dany Bréelle The Regional Discourse of French Geography in the Context of Indochina: The Theses of Charles Robequain and Pierre Gourou Dany Bréelle To cite this version: Dany Bréelle. The Regional Discourse of French Geography in the Context of Indochina: The Theses of Charles Robequain and Pierre Gourou. Geography. Flinders University, 2003. English. tel-00363032 HAL Id: tel-00363032 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00363032 Submitted on 20 Feb 2009 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. 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The Regional Discourse of French Geography in the Context of Indochina: The Theses of Charles Robequain and Pierre Gourou By Dany Michelle Bréelle PhD Thesis Flinders University of South Australia School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management September 2002 Table of Contents Abstract........................................................................................................................................................................................... vi Thesis Declaration........................................................................................................................................................................vii Acknowledgments .......................................................................................................................................................................viii Foreword.........................................................................................................................................................................................ix Table of Figures.............................................................................................................................................................................. x CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................................................................1 1.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Background – The Authors and Their Geography......................................................................................................... 3 1.2.1 Two authors influenced by Vidalian scholarship ................................................................................................... 4 1.2.1.1 Charles Robequain ............................................................................................................................................... 4 1.2.1.2 Pierre Gourou........................................................................................................................................................ 7 1.2.2 Two pioneer discourses on the Far Eastern regions of the French empire....................................................... 10 1.3 Objectives of this Thesis .................................................................................................................................................. 12 1.3.1 General aim................................................................................................................................................................. 12 1.3.2 Specific questions...................................................................................................................................................... 12 CHAPTER 2 THE LANGUAGE OF GEOGRAPHERS: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND RESEARCH ORIENTATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................................16 2.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 16 2.2 A Contextual Approach.................................................................................................................................................... 17 2.2.1 Societal environment and geographical issues ..................................................................................................... 18 2.2.2 The epistemological backgrounds of the geographical works during the 1920s-1930s ................................ 18 2.3 The Concept of Discourse and Geography ................................................................................................................... 21 2.3.1 Philosophical/geographical definitions.................................................................................................................. 21 2.3.2 Culture, writings and discourses ............................................................................................................................. 23 2.3.3 Discourse and power................................................................................................................................................. 28 2.3.4 Creativity of discourse.............................................................................................................................................. 33 2.4 The Geographical Discourse and Semiology................................................................................................................ 38 2.4.1 Landscape, geographical interpretation and semiology...................................................................................... 38 2.4.2 Translation of the signs and symbols of another culture .................................................................................... 42 2.4.3 The landscape as a text .............................................................................................................................................. 42 2.5 The Geographical Discourse and the Use of Metaphor/Analogy ............................................................................. 44 2.6 Conclusion .......................................................................................................................................................................... 45 CHAPTER 3 VIDALIAN GEOGRAPHY AND THE DISCOURSES OF CHARLES ROBEQUAIN AND PIERRE GOUROU.......................................................................................................................................................................................47 3.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 47 3.2 The Regional Framework and Rural Orientation of Vidalian Theses ...................................................................... 49 3.2.1 The concept of milieu................................................................................................................................................ 49 3.2.1.1 The concept of milieu and its naturalist orientation..................................................................................... 49 3.2.1.1 The Vidalian themes of adaptation and harmony......................................................................................... 51 3.2.1.2 Vidalian “possibilism”....................................................................................................................................... 53 3.2.2 The concept of genre de vie and the notion of civilization................................................................................. 57 3.2.3 The region and its various interpretations............................................................................................................. 59 3.2.3.1 The region according to Vidal de la Blache .................................................................................................. 59 3.2.3.2 The regional frame of the disciples of Vidal de la Blache.......................................................................... 63 3.2.4 The rural orientation of regional analysis .............................................................................................................. 66 3.2.4.1 The rural population .......................................................................................................................................... 67 3.2.4.2 The descriptive and functional approach to the rural habitat ..................................................................... 70 3.2.4.3 The economic significance of land ownership.............................................................................................. 71 3.2.4.4 Non-rural activities considered as complementary occupations................................................................ 73 3.3 The Rhetorical Practice of Reasoned Description ....................................................................................................... 74 3.3.1 Vidalian descriptive practice ..............................................................................................................................
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