Arts and humanities

Director of the Social Geography Department: Mr Xavier LONG

Teachers in the social geography department teach courses in the history degree and the SHA (Applied Human Sciences) degree, where geography is one of three areas of study, alongside history and philosophy.

Social geography is a field of the humanities and social sciences that examines the role of space - the 'where? question - in the making of social processes. Space, associated with time and therefore also with historical studies, is a major dimension of organizations, governmentalities and social, political and economic transformations.
In relations of power and production, space can be a commodity, a resource, a tool of control and surveillance... Divided up, demarcated, privatized, commodified or made common, space is as much a source of conflict and competition as it is of solidarity. We propose to study these issues at different spatial and temporal scales, using a variety of documents borrowed from geography (cartography, for example), the humanities, social sciences and philosophy.

Geography in history degree
Geography in the SHA (Applied Human Sciences) bachelor's degree