Heritage as a Significant Tool for the Understanding of Geography and its Place in the Social Sciences

This paper describes the emergence of geographical issues '” related to other social sciences '” on heritage. Even though the spatial dimension of the construction of heritage has been underlined since the 1980's, geographers, unlike historians, urban planners, ethnologists, sociologists... , have not precociously and notably been involved in this research field. A transdisciplinary topic par excellence, the concept of heritage testifies to the...