Our common places. A geography of the contemporary world
Edited by Michel Bussi, Martine Drozdz, and Fabrice Argounès Fayard
Publishing, 2024, 576 p.
Did you know that the 10,000 data centers that store our data consume as much energy as the United Kingdom? That 600 million of us visited a zoo in 2023? That a political party headquarters could be a showcase for a fashion show? That in some Asian countries, gallo dromes and cockfighting are as popular as our stadiums? Could you spend eighteen years in an airport if you became stateless? Or plan your next vacation destination without consulting Instagram? Have you ever looked at your house and imagined that it could be a refuge from the climate crisis?
Alongside Michel Bussi, who swaps his novelist's hat for that of a geographer, Martine Drozdz and Fabrice Argounès have invited around a hundred authors to embark on a surprising and playful Grand Tour, an inventive geography at the heart of our relationship with the world. From Airbnb apartments to village squares, schoolyards to nightclubs, submarines to world fairs, they invite us to explore these common, intimate, or exceptional places, whether mundane or inaccessible.
An adventure that tells our story, from the corner of the street to the ends of the earth.
Publisher's website: here
The book will be presented in the presence of the editors at the Institute of Geography on Friday, September 20, 2024, at 6:00 p.m.
For online reservations: here
