Debarbieux Bernard

		Version française accessible ici Bernard Debarbieux is a professor of political and cultural geography and urban and regional planning. He works both at the Department of geography and at the Institute for environmental sciences.

Research

As a researcher, he has developed theoretical proposals on "social imaginaries of space and scale", and empirical studies on mountain public policies, practices in planning and heritage-making, especially in international organizations.

Current research

Main current project: History and uses of the notion of « heritage of mankind/humanity » in international organizations.

Main publications

Imaginaries of space

• DEBARBIEUX, Bernard. Social imaginaries of space. [s.l.] : Edward Elgar, 2019.
• DEBARBIEUX, Bernard, HIRT, Irène, (eds.). The Politics of Mapping. [s.l.] : Wiley-ISTE, 2022. 

Mountains

• DEBARBIEUX, Bernard, RUDAZ, Gilles. The Mountain : A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
• DEBARBIEUX, Bernard. L’Unesco au mont Blanc. Chamonix : Guérin, 2020.

Heritage and globalities

• DEBARBIEUX, Bernard et al. Sharing heritage?: politics and territoriality in UNESCO’s heritage lists. In: Territory, politics, governance [2162-2671], 2021.
• DEBARBIEUX, Bernard. Imaginaries and rhetorics of “globality” in UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage. In: Espace géographique, 2020, n° 4, p. 355‑371.
• DEBARBIEUX, Bernard, MUNZ, Hervé. Scaling heritage. The construction of scales in the submission process of alpinism to UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. In: International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2019, vol. 25, n° 12, p. 1248–1262. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2019.1590445

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