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Géographie Des Homophobies Arnaud Alessandrin, Yves Raibaud Géographie des homophobies Arnaud Alessandrin, Yves Raibaud To cite this version: Arnaud Alessandrin, Yves Raibaud. Géographie des homophobies. Armand Colin, pp.285, 2013, Recherches, 978-2-200-28551-7. hal-01918297 HAL Id: hal-01918297 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01918297 Submitted on 21 Nov 2018 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. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Géographie des homophobies AAlessandrin_001-288.inddlessandrin_001-288.indd 1 223/05/133/05/13 115:055:05 AAlessandrin_001-288.inddlessandrin_001-288.indd 2 223/05/133/05/13 115:055:05 SOUS LA DIRECTION DE Arnaud Alessandrin Yves Raibaud Géographie des homophobies Ouvrage publié avec le concours de l’UMR 5185 Aménagement, développement, environnement, santé et sociétés (ADESS) et du Conseil général de la Gironde AAlessandrin_001-288.inddlessandrin_001-288.indd 3 223/05/133/05/13 115:055:05 Parmi nos dernières publications Pierre Bardelli, José Allouche (dir.), La Souffrance au travail : quelle responsabilité de l’entreprise ?, 2012. Jérôme Pelisse, Caroline Protais, Keltoume Larchet, Emmanuel Charrier (dir.), Des chiffres, des maux et des lettres. Une sociologie de l’expertise judiciaire en économie, psy- chiatrie et traduction, 2012. Chantal Crenn, Laurence Kotobi (dir.), Du point de vue de l’ethnicité : pratiques fran- çaises, 2012. Frédéric Monier, Natalie Petiteau, Jens Ivo Engels, Les Coulisses du politique. Vol. 1 La politique vue d’en bas, 2012. Ariel Mendez, Robert Tchobanian, Antoine Vion (dir.), Travail, compétences et mon- dialisation, 2012. Jean-Pierre Cléro, Emmanuel Faye (dir.), Descartes. Des principes aux phénomènes, 2012. Ivan Sainsaulieu, Muriel Surdez, Sens politiques du travail, 2012. Marie-Luce Gélard, Élisabeth Anstett (dir.), Les Objets ont-ils un genre ? Culture matérielle et production sociale des identités sexuées, 2012. Oliver Lazzarotti, Brigitte Frelat-Kahn (dir.), Habiter. Vers un nouveau concept ?, 2012. Françoise Taliano-Des Garets (dir.), Villes et culture sous l’Occupation. Expériences françaises et perspectives comparées, 2012. Lise Demailly, Michel Autès, La Politique de santé mentale en France, 2012. Anna Caiozzo, Nathalie Ernoult, Femmes médiatrices. Mythes et imaginaire, 2012. Valérie Assan, Les Consistoires israélites en Algérie au XIXe siècle, 2012. Laurence Badel (dir.), Écrivains et diplomates. L’invention d’une tradition XIXe- XXIe siècles, 2012. Geoffrey Grandjean, Grégory Piet, Polémiques à l’école. Perspectives internationales sur le lien social, 2012. Frédérick Douzet, Béatrice Giblin (dir.), Des frontières indépassables ? Des frontières d’État aux frontières urbaines, 2012. Maquette de couverture : Raphaël Lefeuvre Visuels de couverture : © Nicolas Rividi/Flux-Tendu Mise en pages : PCA © Armand Colin, Paris, 2013 ISBN : 978-2-200-28551-7 www.armand-colin.com Tous droits de traduction, d’adaptation et de reproduction par tous procédés, réservés pour tous pays. Toute reproduction ou représentation intégrale ou partielle, par quelque procédé que ce soit, des pages publiées dans le présent ouvrage, faite sans l’autorisation de l’éditeur, est illicite et constitue une contrefaçon. Seules sont autorisées, d’une part, les reproductions strictement réservées à l’usage privé du copiste et non destinées à une utilisation collective et, d’autre part, les courtes citations justifiées par le caractère scien- tifique ou d’information de l’œuvre dans laquelle elles sont incorporées (art. L. 122-4, L. 122-5 et L. 335-2 du Code de la propriété intellectuelle). Armand Colin Éditeur • 21, rue du Montparnasse • 75006 Paris AAlessandrin_001-288.inddlessandrin_001-288.indd 4 223/05/133/05/13 115:055:05 Les auteurs Arnaud ALESSANDRIN est docteur en socio- Élise CHOMIENNE représente l’association Les logie (université Bordeaux-Segalen) et corespon- Enfants d’Arc en Ciel qui œuvre à l’accompagne- sable de l’Observatoire des transidentités (ODT). ment et à la défense des familles homoparentales Il a dirigé le livre La Transidentité. Des change- et des couples lesbiens, gays, bi et trans (LGBT). ments individuels au débat de société (L’Harmattan, 2011). Anne CLERVAL est géographe à l’université Paris-Est Créteil – Val-de-Marne. Ses recherches Salima AMARI est doctorante à l’université portent, entre autres, sur le genre, la gentrification Paris-8. Ses travaux portent sur la question les- et l’espace urbain. Elle a récemment co-écrit « La bienne chez les femmes maghrébines migrantes gentrification, une approche de géographie cri- et descendantes de parents maghrébins en France. tique » dans les Carnets de géographes (2012). Janik BASTIEN-CHARLEBOIS est sociologue à Melissa CORLOUER représente l’association des l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Elle étudiants lesbiens, gays, bi et trans (LGBT) de a récemment publié La Virilité en jeu. Perception Bordeaux, Wake Up. de l’homosexualité masculine par les garçons adoles- cents (Septentrion, 2011). Karine ESPINEIRA est docteure en sciences de l’information et de la communication. Elle est Marianne BLIDON est sociologue à l’univer- coresponsable de l’Observatoire des transidentités sité Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ses thèmes de (ODT) et a publié en 2008 La transidentité. De recherche portent actuellement sur la géographie l’espace médiatique à l’espace public (L’Harmattan). des minorités sexuelles. En 2011, elle a coor- donné, avec Sébastien Roux, le dossier « (Géo) Nicolas GOUGAIN Représente l’Interassociative politique du sexe » pour la revue L’Espace politique. lesbienne, gay, bi et trans (Inter-LGBT), associa- tion organisatrice de la Marche des fiertés à Paris. Rachele BORGHI est chercheuse associée à l’uni- versité Rennes-2. Ses travaux de recherche portent Vincent GUILLOT est membre de l’Organi- sur le corps et l’espace. Elle effectue actuellement sation internationale des intersexes (OII). Il a une étude en géographie de la sexualité sur les pra- notamment participé au numéro 27 de la revue tiques lesbiennes à la plage. Nouvelles Questions féministes intitulé « À qui Fabienne BRUGERE est philosophe à l’univer- appartiennent nos corps ? Féminismes et luttes sité Michel-de-Montaigne Bordeaux-3 et pré- intersexes » (2008). sidente du Conseil du développement durable (C2D) de la communauté urbaine de Bordeaux. Emmanuel Jaurand est géographe à l’univer- Ses recherches portent sur le care. Elle a publié Le sité d’Angers. Il a publié avec Stéphane Leroy Sexe de la sollicitude (Seuil, 2008) et vient de tra- « Espaces de Pacs : géographie d’une innovation duire Le risque ou le care ? de Joan Tronto (PUF, sociale » (Annales de géographie, 2009) et « Terri- 2012). toires de mauvais genre ? Les plages gays » (Géogra- phie et cultures, 2005). Pauline BRUNNEr est étudiante en master 2 de géographie, Espace sociétés, territoires, à l’uni- Jean-Yves LE TALEC est sociologue à l’univer- versité Paris-Est Créteil – Val-de-Marne où elle sité Toulouse-II-Le-Mirail. Il est l’auteur de Folles effectue un mémoire sur les sociabilités lesbiennes. de France. Repenser l’homosexualité masculine (La Découverte, 2008) et de Un mouvement gai dans Maxime CERVULLE enseigne la sociologie à la lutte contre le sida. Les Sœurs de la Perpétuelle l’université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Il est Indulgence avec Daniel Welzer-Lang et Sylvie notamment co-auteur, avec Nick Rees-Roberts, Tomolillo (L’Harmattan, 2000). de Homo exoticus. Race, classe et critique queer (Armand Colin 2010) et a traduit plusieurs Stéphane LEROY est géographe à l’université ouvrages dont Défaire le genre de Judith Butler Paris-Est Créteil – Val-de-Marne. Il est l’auteur de (Éditions Amsterdam, 2006). « La possibilité d’une ville. Comprendre les spa- AAlessandrin_001-288.inddlessandrin_001-288.indd 5 223/05/133/05/13 115:055:05 Géographie des homophobies tialités homosexuelles en milieu urbain » dans la numéros « Masculin/Féminin : questions pour la revue Espaces et sociétés (2009). géographie » de L’Information géographique (2012) et « Mixité dans les activités de loisirs », avec OUTrans est une association d’auto-support trans Magalie Bacou, d’Agora débats/jeunesses (2011). Il « par et pour les trans ». On lui doit le fascicule est chargé de mission égalité femmes hommes de « DTC : Dicklit et T Claques », un guide pour les l’université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux3. trans ft* et leurs amants. Matthieu ROUVEYRE est conseiller général de Charlotte PRIEUR est doctorante à l’univer- Gironde en charge de la vie associative. Il a présidé sité Paris-Sorbonne Paris-IV où elle effectue une la Lesbienne and Gay Pride de Bordeaux. recherche intitulée « L’hétérotopie du quartier gay : de la recherche d’un entre-soi à l’émergence Maud-Yeuse THOMAS est coresponsable de de lignes de tension ». l’Observatoire des transidentités (ODT). Elle est, avec Karine Espineira et Arnaud Alessandrin, Yves RAIBAUD est géographe, membre de à l’origine de La Transyclopédie (Des ailes sur un l’UMR Aménagement, développement, environ- tracteur, 2012). Tous trois s’apprêtent à publier nement, santé et sociétés (ADESS) de l’université ODT, vol. 1 & 2 (L’Harmattan, 2013). Michel-de-Montaigne Bordeaux-3.
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