CENTRES AND CENTRALITIES
This article stems from The Centre and the Name, readings in Beirut’s toponymy, a thesis defended at the Sorbonne in May 2018. Hannah Arendt is not very present in studies and research related to geography....
“Cum potestas in populo auctoritas in senatu sit” “Le pouvoir réside dans le peuple mais l’autorité siège au Sénat” (Cicero) Arendt, H. 1968. Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought. Penguin Books. Qu’est-ce que l’autorité? Dans...
We said that the “centre of the world” is a notion which always stems from social construction, from human perception and not from a physical reality. In this regard we do know, today, that Jerusalem is not a physical centre of our Planet; unless we followed the idea that all points of the Planet are its centre: so Jerusalem would be one out of an infinity.
Another year passes by. 2014, will it carry with it new centres and new centralities? Yes, I am quite sure. My research in 2014 focuses on numerous topics, the most pertinent of them are:...
Calenda – Géographie
