La transformation des formes de la limite

• Main Author: Denis Retaillé
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Urban Research 2011-03-01
• Series: Articulo: Journal of Urban Research
• Subjects: epistemology of geography; axiom pattern; territory; mobile space; limit; border
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/articulo/1723

Geography is established on a sedentary axiom pattern that leads to privilege world partitioning. Globalization – just as the construction of the European Union – and mobility in a general way, undermine this axiom until the notion of crisis takes over. Against that, a theoretical proposition concerning mobile space opens the possibility of research on the new forms of the limit – most notably the horizon –, which would allow going beyond the anachronism of common models, such as the opposition between networks and territories.