Ripoll, Fabrice <br/><br/>
Create a journal, break a monopoly. Elements for a socio-history of L’Espace géographique 

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<br/><br/> When it was launched in 1972, L’Espace géographique set out to become a scientific, generalist and (inter)national journal, breaking the monopoly held by the Annales de géographie since its launch in 1891. By introducing competing perspectives considered to be “modern”, the journal gave rise to a field of journals in French geography. This article looks at the social conditions that made this venture conceivable, possible and successful. The (exploratory) study uses a Bourdieusian socio-historical approach, combining archives and interviews, some of which have never been published, to document these unexplored events.