Raffestin, Claude | Archive ouverte UNIGE
Claude Raffestin, contributor of Archive institutionnelle de l'Université de Genève - Institutional Repository of the University of Geneva
Il y a quelques années, le groupe CollecTerr, composé d’étudiants et doctorants de Genève, avait mis en ligne une énorme quantité de ses écrits librement sur l’Archive Ouverte de l’Université de Genève. Merci à elle•eux, merci à lui pour cet héritage.
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26.09.2025 05:45 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
personne ne me parle pendant au moins une semaine svp
26.09.2025 17:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Elizabeth Tsurkov, for me, is an example of a rare Jewish Israeli who decided to embrace the Middle East as her home, immersed itself in Arabic language and culture, struggled and put herself at risk for justice and liberty for people in Palestine, Syria and Iraq. She's a model of how things can be.
09.09.2025 21:20 — 👍 145 🔁 30 💬 3 📌 1
Tuerie de masse dans une école catholique du Minnesota: oui, la tireuse avait de nombreuses références nazies sur son arme. Mais est-ce un acte terroriste d'extrême droite? C'est un peu plus compliqué et pour ça il faut parler de la mouvance NVE (nihilistic violent extremism). 1/
28.08.2025 07:33 — 👍 77 🔁 51 💬 9 📌 16
absolument pas c'est de la discrimination (illégal) + (cf autre com) pas du tout comparable aux sanctions qui visent des individus, des entreprises, des biens et des devises clairement identifiés + et que faire dans le cas XY où un État perpètre un génocide contre une partie de sa population ?
24.08.2025 13:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kids United : On écrit sur les murs le nom de ceux qu'on aime 🥰 des messages pour les jours à venir ! ✨
Les murs :
19.08.2025 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The laborers were hired by Goumina's company, which in turn worked for the grape producer, who himself sells his production to agricultural cooperatives who then supply Champagne houses. In this case, the grape notably ended up in Moët & Chandon (LVMH) champagne.
30.07.2025 10:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The article points out how the complexification of the labor and supply chain for Champagne makes it difficult to hold the big houses at the end of the chain accountable in these modern slavery cases.
30.07.2025 10:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
They were housed in inhuman conditions and had two minders, who also got a jail sentence. Less than 1 sq.m per person, no running water, no electricity, no toilet, very little food, 10-hour workdays. Most of them were never paid.
30.07.2025 10:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Grape producers usually outsource the hiring of seasonal laborers to independent companies, like that owned by Goumina. The 47 men were recruited in and around Paris and transported to the outskirts of Épernay (Marne) in a bus.. for which they had to pay the ticket.
30.07.2025 10:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Baku Grave Crimes Court has sentenced Azerbaijani researcher, peace activist, and OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov to 15 years in prison on charges of treason.
▶️ Read more: oc-media.org/azerbaijani-...
23.06.2025 12:44 — 👍 14 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 7
Azerbaijani researcher Bahruz Samadov ‘attempts suicide in prison’
On Friday, prosecutors requested that Samadov, an OC Media contributor, be sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Researcher and OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov has attempted to take his own life in prison, after prosecutors demanded he be sentenced to 16 years on charges of treason.
➡️ Read more: oc-media.org/azerbaijani-...
21.06.2025 18:42 — 👍 20 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 2
Une main tient un globe terrestre translucide, fabriqué par l'entreprise Farquhar à Philadelphie aux États-Unis vers 1955
Géopolitique, histoire d'une science 🌍 4 épisodes dans Le Cours de l'histoire @franceculture.fr @radiofrance.fr
Montesquieu. De l'esprit de la géopolitique
De la Geopolitik à la géopolitique
1989, la géopolitique au pied du mur
Un peu plus près des étoiles
1/6
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
14.06.2025 11:09 — 👍 98 🔁 32 💬 6 📌 3
PS : i also didn't know what a "dromocracy" was before. The concept was coined in the 70s by french architect Paul Virilio and refers to societies governed by speed and the pursuit of speed (in greek: dromos - race). Even more jargonny : it is a pouvoir/mouvoir
26.05.2025 15:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the end, this #PaxLogistica shows how logistics work with authoritarianism to pursue dromocratic ideals that are also geopolitical goals. Local pursuits of war, 'peace', national construction and territorial control are woven into global scripts of 'connectivity', 'development' and the like.
26.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
But the #Zangezur corridor is also the reimagination of a decades-old Soviet highway project vital to the Az SSR that never came to be because of Armenian opposition, but prefigured the 'Goble plan' proposed land swap in the 1990s - which in turned traumatized everyone.
26.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The second case study foregrounds the #Zangezur Corridor. A vague, shifting project framed as regional connectivity that was coercively 'negotiated' with Armenia and later re-routed through Iran when resistance grew. A "corridor", specifically, is what's pursued + left undefined + contested.
26.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The 1st case study focuses on highway construction in Karabakh: new roads are built fast, with spectacular engineering feats (tunnels, viaducts). My reading is that speed here isn't just technical, it's political. It contrasts Azerbaijan's 'progress' with Armenia/Artsakh’s slower infrastructure.
26.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#PaxLogistica is about using infrastructure and speed as a method of authoritarian conflict management/illiberal peace. As a project of re- and de-connection, it targets at the same time the recovered territories (Karabakh) and Armenia proper, which I investigate through 2 cartographic case studies.
26.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
After the 2020 Karabakh war, Azerbaijan launched a frenzy of infrastructure projects — roads, airports, “smart villages.” I call (provocatively) this strategy #PaxLogistica and take a look at how it unfolds until the capitulation in Sept. 2023.
26.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Abzas case is coming to an end. Today, prosecutor requested:
1. 12 years for Ulvi Hasanli
2. 11 for Sevinj Vagifgizi
3. 11 for Mahammad Kekalov
4. 11 for Nargiz Absalamova
5. 12 for Hafiz Babali
6. 11 for Elnara Gasimova
7. 12 for Farid Mehralizade
20.05.2025 13:22 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Authorities in Azerbaijan are on track to keep the country’s rankings on human rights and freedoms low (not that this was ever a concern):
Young scholar Igbal Abilov was sentenced to 18 years today on bogus charges.
While prosecutor asked for lengthy prison sentences for Abzas Media journalists +
20.05.2025 16:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The blows journalist Ulviyya Ali received to hear head during interrogation are causing the journalist severe headaches and she has reportedly been vomiting since being placed in pretrial detention as per Meydan TV journalist Aytac Tapdiq who is also held in the same facility. #journalismisnotacrime
11.05.2025 06:27 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Ce matin la journaliste Ulviyya Ali et le chercheur et activiste Ahmad Mammadli ont été arrêtés à Bakou. Ulviyya Ali a été battue par la police et placée en détention provisoire (dont on se doute bien qu'elle ne sortira pas de si tôt). C'est, encore une fois, une catastrophe
07.05.2025 14:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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