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Philippe Foret
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PhD
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Foret
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Item type:Publication, La découverte de l'eau chaude et le rejet des évidences géographiquesType:journal articleJournal:Revue EchangeVolume:2013Issue:xxx - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Overland to India : The Debate on Climate Change of 1904-1914(2013-01-09)I am interested in the climate sciences at a time when simplicity was one of their characteristics, when scholarly societies dominated professional networks, and when conceptual models and the logistics of data collecting and analysing obeyed the demands of mapping. One century ago, climate change as exposed by dissident geographers generated a passionate debate on the past and future of humankind. The historiography of climate change has until now granted scant attention to that debate and, more generally, to colonial geography's practices of assessing data from the marches of the Empire. The Kevir, Taklamakan and Gobi deserts were nevertheless meticulously surveyed, and their climate extremes painfully recorded by parties of geographers, orientalists and archaeologists armed with the best instruments of the day. Journalists and the public fêted their achievements when these explorers came back to London, Paris, and Berlin with long columns of figures, measurements and bearings. My paper will address the controversy raised by the gap between the rather reliable reconstruction of the environmental history of the ancient civilizations of Inner Asia and uncertainties on what this reconstruction meant for the contemporary scientific ethos and the early 20th century world-order.Type:presentation - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, How did the Silk Road alter the course of the history of climate change?(2004-05-27)I have been especially interested in scientific reports and travel accounts on "western China," which consists of Gansu, Xinjiang, both Mongolias, and Tibet and lies halfway between the Pacific seaboard and the Mediterranean coasts. This type of literature provides fascinating examples of fieldwork practices that must be investigated within an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. My goal is to understand how the iconography they provided on the environment of the Silk Road cultures has articulated the scholarly discourse between the two world wars. The interaction between the Silk Road and early 20th century technology and methodology yielded popular (but bogus) theories about race, the environment, the "pulse of Asia," and the spatial distribution of advanced civilizations. What do we remember today on the European and Chinese geographers, geologists, meteorologists, archaeologists and paleontologists who worked together? What did they think about the political dimensions of their work? How were they able to bring together scholarship and visual representation? Did they believe in global warming or in the decline of the West? An examination of the maps and images they produced would help with the reconstruction of the intellectual history of the Silk Road.Type:presentation - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Le regard géographique sur le paysage transhimalayen(2003-10-13)Il s'agit d'examiner la production de connaissances sur la moitié occidentale de la Chine à une époque où la région est cartographiée dans son ensemble, où le thème du sacrifice consenti au nom de la science perd de sa popularité, et où les ambitions coloniales des puissances européennes s'assoupissent. Interpellés par un paysage d'une complexité toujours plus grande, les chercheurs des années 1900-1930 désirent orienter leur regard en fonction d'une problématique qui intégrerait tous les faits constatés et toutes les observations accumulées. Les résultats de leurs missions ont exercé beaucoup moins d'influence que l'orientation de leur interprétation, laquelle a trop facilement conduit à des jugements à l'emporte-pièce sur les activités d'un géographe ou un thème de recherche. À partir de la documentation exceptionnellement riche léguée par Sven Hedin sur ses deux dernières expéditions scientifiques, celle de 1906 à1908 au Transhimalaya et celle de 1927 à 1935 en Mongolie et au Xinjiang, je propose que nous retracions l'histoire parallèle d'un regard scientifique et de théories péremptoires et fragiles.Type:presentation