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Homère (en grec ancien , ou ) est réputé avoir été un aède (poète) de la fin du Il était surnommé () par les Anciens. Les deux premières œuvres de la littérature occidentale que sont l’Iliade et l’Odyssée lui sont attribuées. Il est difficile de dire aujourd'hui si Homère a été un individu historique ou bien une identité construite, un personnage conceptuel, et s'il est bien l'auteur des deux célèbres épopées qui sont au fondement de la littérature occidentale. D'où les enjeux de la question homérique même si les savants modernes croient à un personnage inventé. Cependant plusieurs villes ioniennes (Chios, Smyrne, Cymé ou encore Colophon) se disputaient l'origine de l'aède et la tradition l'individualisait en répétant qu'Homère était aveugle. La place d'Homère dans la littérature grecque est majeure puisqu'il représente à lui seul le genre épique à cette période : l’Iliade et l’Odyssée lui sont attribuées dès le , ainsi que deux poèmes comiques, la Batrachomyomachia (littéralement

Between Hospitality and Inhospitality: The Janus-Faced 'Arrival Infrastructure'

Maxime Carl Felder, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Joan Stavo-Debauge, Marie Hannah Florence Trossat

Although 'arrival infrastructure' is central to the experience of migrants arriving in a new city, is it sufficient to form a 'hospitable milieu'? Our article compares newcomers' experiences with 'arrival infrastructure' in two European cities: Brussels and Geneva. Based on ethnographic research with 49 migrants who arrived a few months earlier, we show that arrival infrastructure is Janus-faced. On one hand, it welcomes newcomers and contributes to making the city hospitable. On the other hand, it rejects, deceives and disappoints them, forcing them to remain mobile - to go back home, go further afield, or just move around the city - in order to satisfy their needs and compose what we will call a 'hospitable milieu.' The arrival infrastructure's inhospitality is fourfold: linked firstly to its limitations and shortcomings, secondly to the trials or tests newcomers have to overcome in order to benefit from the infrastructure, thirdly to the necessary forms of closure needed to protect those who have just arrived and fourthly to those organising and managing the infrastructure, with divergent conceptions of hospitality. By using the notion of milieu and by embedding infrastructure into the broader question of hospitality, we open up an empirical exploration of its ambiguous role in the uncertain trajectories of newcomers.

2020

Between Hospitality and Inhospitality: The Janus-Faced 'Arrival Infrastructure'

Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Maxime Carl Felder, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Joan Stavo-Debauge, Marie Hannah Florence Trossat

Although ‘arrival infrastructure’ is central to the experience of migrants arriving in a new city, is it sufficient to form a ‘hospitable milieu’? Our article compares newcomers’ experiences with ‘arrival infrastructure’ in two European cities: Brussels and Geneva. Based on ethnographic research with 49 migrants who arrived a few months earlier, we show that arrival infrastructure is Janus-faced. On one hand, it welcomes newcomers and contributes to making the city hospitable. On the other hand, it rejects, deceives and disappoints them, forcing them to remain mobile—to go back home, go further afield, or just move around the city—in order to satisfy their needs and compose what we will call a ‘hospitable milieu.’ The arrival infrastructure’s inhospitality is fourfold: linked firstly to its limitations and shortcomings, secondly to the trials or tests newcomers have to overcome in order to benefit from the infrastructure, thirdly to the necessary forms of closure needed to protect those who have just arrived and fourthly to those organising and managing the infrastructure, with divergent conceptions of hospitality. By using the notion of milieu and by embedding infrastructure into the broader question of hospitality, we open up an empirical exploration of its ambiguous role in the uncertain trajectories of newcomers.

2020

Assembler son quotidien sur la route

Lisa Maude Reitz

In a context of housing crisis and general increase in short-term/casual work, new forms of social precarity have developed since the end of the nineties in Western countries. Furthermore, a movement of voluntary shift to nomadic lifestyles is initiated. People with diverse social backgrounds and motivations decided to invest in less sedentary spaces and mobilize their homes to maintain professional flexibility, ensure economic survival and/or experiment alternative ways of living, producing and consuming. Mobile dwelling belongs to the larger group of âunordinaryâ dwellings, which, apart from proper mobile homes, con- sist of precarious or provisionary housing. Implanted in urban wasteland or far from city centers, between temporary camping sites and side roads, they are considered and used as permanent homes by some and as a temporary lodging solution by others. This ethnography captures the mode of dwelling of residents that have opted for houses on wheels (transformed vans, trucks, buses) and explores the plural- ity of contexts and realities of their everyday lives. Following on a three years multi-sited research in France, this work aims at understanding the functioning of a mode of dwelling in the making. Based on practices, experiences and nar- ratives of these mobile and invisible craftsmen and women, the work treats therefore the âlife in a vehicleâ and its social, spatial and technical modalities.This research cares to deliver a report about the passages of those that have de- cided to live on the road. By their stories and experiences, this work traces the perspectives, motivations and desires of these mobile inhabitants while shed- ding light on the way in which they confront, negotiate, work around and are submitted to material and institutional fixities. By translating the question of the mobility of human beings into the mobility of dwellings, spaces, practices and techniques, the present work also explores how the mobile dwellers acquire and circulate multiple knowledge and skills on both mobility and dwelling.This work seeks to show how mobility and movement, beyond their physical and geographical dimensions, must also be perceived as an experiential journey and an apprenticeship.Taking house-truck as an entry door, this work finally analyzes the logics and tensions engulfing the conditions of displacement and installation of its inhabitants. It sheds also light on the ways in which these micro-territories are materially and spatially formalized at the margins of cities, dwelling and mobility.

EPFL2016

Assembler son quotidien sur la route

Lisa Maude Reitz

EPFL2016