Façonner un lieu dans la ville et une singularité de la marque urbaine : exemple des usages des images photographiques dans le quartier de la Mouraria à Lisbonne by Jacques Galhardo

“…I will try to show that the latter also profit from the game by negotiating, in the public space, these images.…”
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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…Cartoonists Alison Bechdel and Diane DiMassa, writing in a socially and culturally heteronormative context, give life to a fantasy: worlds that, instead of excluding dykes from public space, are entirely organized around lesbian characters. …”
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Politiser le regard sur les marges. Le cas du mouvement « sur la voie 96 » d’Imider by Soraya El Kahlaoui, Koenraad Bogaert

“…Starting from an empirical study of the ways in which the “on the road of 96” movement has managed to impose itself in the public space and more broadly in the political field, the objective of this article is to inscribe the mobilizations of marginalized communities in a more global political analysis. …”
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When home and work are not enough. The challenge of international migrants’ agency in the Italian Alps by Andrea Membretti, Fabio Lucchini, Monica Gilli, Mia Scotti

“…Difficulties in accessing public space and public sphere, scarce social recognition, low status, housing isolation (as is the case of those who live in small mountain villages), professional ghettoisation: these are factors that, even in presence of an acceptable working and housing inclusion, make it difficult for international migrants to exercise their rights, to have their skills recognised, and, ultimately, to develop an agency genuinely linked to their capabilities. …”
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L’expérience des Tribunaux de Conscience contre les Violences Sexuelles au Guatemala : Vers une Récupération de la Justice par les Femmes Autochtones by Laura Cahier

“…This article concludes that Indigenous women use these Courts as an emancipatory strategy to defend their rights, to take part in the public space in a critical way, and to participate in the fight for Justice in the country.…”
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L’histoire et « l’avenir possible » : Laroui, Djaït et la modernité du Maghreb dans les années 1970 by Idriss Jebari

“…These intellectuals’ participation in the public space was seen as innovative and daring. In this article, we look at their ideas and practices in relation to each other. …”
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Food bags, silent squares: Changes in the actions of state agents and social activists in Buenos Aires by Sofia Silva, María Fernanda Alonso, Stella Maris García

“…We observed that strategies and policies aimed at recognition were attenuated by the need to respond to the pressing health situation and the impossibility of accessing public space during the pandemic.…”
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L’arrivée des centres commerciaux dans les marges urbaines de Rabat : Des lieux inédits de sociabilité et de déambulation urbaine by Tarik Harroud

“…Based on a series of investigations conducted in these places (four malls in Rabat) combining solid observation of the ways and means of their social use with the analysis of representations associated with them by a sample of users, this study shows the emergence of new forms of sociability revealing a unique relationship with the city and its specific foundations (public space, urban center, urban identity, etc.). These places embody the values ​​and images of the West and consumer culture, and are a favorite spot for the young people of Rabat as ideal spaces for meeting, socializing with the opposite sex and showing off – particularly in displaying consumer goods (designer items and accessories).…”
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Evaluation Method of Street Green Landscape Viewing Degree Based on Machine Learning by Tieming Wang, Mengyu Liu, Wenhua Huang

“…Urban streetscape is a complex and multifaceted landscape system, which is an important part of urban public space system. With the acceleration of the urbanization process, the connotation of street landscape is becoming more and more abundant. …”
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‘An unbidden guest at your table’: Purity, danger and the house-fly in the middle-class home, c. 1870-1910 by Neil Davie

“…This reflected in part changing environmental conditions conducive to the proliferation of flies, but also new attitudes, particularly among middle-class urbanites, towards the organisation of public space, and the place of animals within it. This in turn reflected contemporary developments in medical and biological science; along with broader attitudes to ‘cleanliness’ and ‘dirt’. …”
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Who Has the Right to the Post-Socialist City? Writing Poland as the Other of Marxist Geographical Materialism by Kamil Rusiłowicz

“…And finally, how can the inhabitants of the post-socialist city reclaim public space?…”
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Pouvoir parler des pesticides ? Une recherche-action pour éprouver les capabilités des travailleurs viticoles (Gironde, France) by Ludovic Ginelli, Jacqueline Candau, Agossè Nadège Degbelo, Camille Noûs

“…We hypothesize that the weak voice of farmworkers in the public space is a sign of hindered capabilities (Sen 2000, de Munck 2008). …”
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Le bleu du front de mer by Éric Foulquier, Alice Ferrari

“…Situated by the sea in the gentle breeze of the trade winds, the Caribbean city, necessarily a port, would thus have a waterfront as a fundamental structure of its public space. However, this is not so and many of our observations show that these contact areas have been progressively marginalised, abandoned to informal occupation and industrial decay. …”
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“So the Last Will Be First”: Cancel Culture as an Instrument of Symbolic Policy by Daniil A. Anikin, Dina D. Ivanova

“…It is concluded that in today’s public space, where virtualization accelerates the creation and dissemination of identifying symbols, various forms of identity are being formed. …”
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MOŽNOSTI POSUZOVÁNÍ EFEKTIVITY INVESTIC DO MODRO-ZELENÉ INFRASTRUKTURY V URBANIZOVANÉM ÚZEMÍ by Jan Kopp, Pavlína Hejduková, Michaela Hejplíková

“…The use of blue-green infrastructure is declared as a new rainwater management system supporting water retention and quality in the urban landscape along with benefits for public space, adaptation to climate change and biodiversity. …”

Decolonial Spectatorship and Performances of Contemporary Dance in South Africa:Mamela Nyamza’s Choreographies of Embodied Politics of Race and Gender in Place by Sarah DAVIES CORDOVA

“…The struggles for dance spaces, for festivals, for recognition of the dancers have long undergirded contemporary dance in Africa in general and no less so in postapartheid and covid-controlled South Africa where governmental institutional structures refuse to prioritise the arts sector and particularly independent dance practitioners despite the unique role they hold in the public space with performances embodying activist politics of race, gender and place. …”
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Silent Protesters or Acceptors? The Reaction of the Russian-speakers to the Removal of the Soviet Monuments in Latvia and Estonia after Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine* by Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik

“…It is argued here that the reconstruction of the public space by shifting the most visual symbol of the victory of the Red Army in the WWII has not induced hot feelings among the Russian-speaking society, and thus, it has not motivated community to take part in the open protest against the removal. …”
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« Duplessis ne donne pas aux étrangers. » Le regard du caricaturiste Robert La Palme sur les politiques du gouvernement Duplessis en matière d’immigration, 1944-1959 by Alexandre Turgeon

“…By giving particular attention to debates concerning these matters under the Duplessis era, we will study the treatment given to these by the artist in his caricatures, that is how he brought these issues into the public space, specifically in electoral context where Unionists and Liberals alike faced each other, using an arsenal of stereotypes, clichés and visual codes. …”
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Algorithmic agency and “fighting back” against discriminatory Instagram content moderation: #IWantToSeeNyome by Marissa Willcox

“…Through a lens of algorithmic agency, I think through the contrasting alignments between freedom of expression and normative representation of bodies in public space. The Instagram assemblage of content moderation, presents a lens with which to view this issue and highlights the contrast between content making, user agency, and the ways more-than-human processes can affect human feelings about bodies and where they do and do not belong.…”
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Le droit d’accès à la nature en Europe du Nord : partage d’un capital environnemental et construction d’un espace contractuel by Camille Girault

“…By allowing the public use of private lands (except for private spaces) and by promoting the non-rival valuation of natural spaces by different stakeholders, the right of public access enables to dissolve the distinction between public space and private space in favour of creating a contractual space.…”
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