Québec and France: Habitation and Displacement
This personal and intellectual geographical experience deals with displacement or changing places. Our article is an analysis of two geographical extracts – one by Gilles Ritchot, the other by Luc Bureau – considered by scholars from France to be genuinely québécois. Their probings into the fundamentals of their field, have, they they smashed through the barriers isolating the classics of French geography, contributed to the development of a science of geography structured around the concept of habitation. Despite their differences, often defined as antinomic in Quebec, the work of Ritchot and Bureau, viewed through different lens, is posing the existential and political and fundamental questions germane to this new geography.