Thèse (M.Serv.Soc.)--Université Laval, 2007. / Bibliogr.: f. 137-143. Publié aussi en version électronique dans la Collection Mémoires et thèses électroniques.

Thèse--Université de Paris. / "Bibliographie": p. [771]-789.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-89).

Thèse--Université de Paris. / "Bibliographie": p. [771]-789.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Th.--Lett.--Paris 7, 1985.

Contient un choix de documents, 1898-1917. - Inaug.-Diss. : Geschichte : Berlin, [BRD] : 1982. - Bibliogr. p. LXXII-LXXXVII. Index. -

An assumption in Cognitive Psychology, which has been challenged in recent years, is that the systems responsible for action and perception work independently of one another. These systems work together during conceptual tasks and research has demonstrated that action knowledge can influence performance even when the task is 'action-irrelevant' (Borghi, 2004; Borghi, Flumini, Natraj & Wheaton, 2012; Creem & Proffitt, 2001; Tucker & Ellis, 1998, 2001). However, participants in such tasks are often only asked to make simple category judgements, such as natural versus man made. The research reported in this thesis has shown that, under certain conditions, participants use action knowledge to make 'complex' category choices in an action-irrelevant task. The experimental work has predominantly used the forced-choice triad task to assess the circumstances under which participants categorise objects based on shared actions. The triads were designed with a target object and two choice objects matching on either shared actions (rifle + water pistol), shared taxonomic relations (rifle + sword), or both (orange + banana). The context in which the objects were presented was also manipulated so that the objects were either presented on a white background (context-lean) or being used by an agent (context-rich). Participants were most likely to select the choice object that shared both a taxonomic and an action demonstrating that action has an 'additive' effect in categorical decisions. Presenting the objects being used by an agent in a functional scenario increased the saliency of the shared actions between the stimuli, and participants were more likely to select the action choice. The subsequent experimental work reported in the thesis sought to eliminate potential confounding variables including perceptual features, object typicality and task instructions. What the experimental work presented here has demonstrated is that action can influence decisions on more complex categories, and judgments of similarity. The research has identified three main circumstances under which knowledge of action becomes influential in the triad task designed for the purpose of this research as follows: (i) when it is presented in conjunction with taxonomic information, (ii) when it is presented with a context, and (iii) when participants are first asked to physically interact with the objects.

Ce travail présente l’analyse d’une politique qui se voulait à l’origine celle de l’aménagement de l’espace et du développement économique, devenue par la suite une action publique transversale où l’environnement, puis le patrimoine, ont pu trouver leur place. La Loire y est abordée à la fois d’un point de vue spatial et temporel. Il a été nécessaire de reconstruire l’action publique dans le temps pour comprendre d’où nous sommes partis, comment, et ce à quoi nous arrivons aujourd’hui. L’action publique sur la Loire mêle des préoccupations diverses : aménagement d’un hydrosystème, écologie, aménagement urbain, paysage, patrimoine, patrimoine mondial. La Loire constitue un véritable laboratoire, théâtre de très nombreux projets et finalement de peu de réalisations, ces dernières d’ailleurs marquées par une grande complexité. Ce fleuve a donc été un lieu où se sont cristallisés les débats, les conflits d’idées et d’actions. Cette thèse a pour but de comprendre l’action publique Loire et son évolution. Le processus de mise sur agenda est décrypté. L’angle retenu est celui du changement introduit par l’irruption des acteurs du territoire : d’une part les acteurs publics locaux et d’autre part les acteurs associatifs de la mouvance écologiste. A la faveur d’un conflit avec l’organisme aménageur de la Loire, les écologistes ont participé à une reformulation progressive des objectifs de l’action publique déployée sur cet espace. Nous avons identifié les différents référentiels qui ont guidé cette action publique. Il s’agit également de questionner l’hypothèse de l’émergence d’une gouvernance territoriale, symbole du renouveau de l’action publique, et de saisir dans quelle mesure, comme cela est souvent évoqué, les modalités d’action et de relation entre acteurs qui se sont mises en place sur la Loire contribuent aux évolutions de l’action publique concernant d’autres sites et d’autres espaces. Mots-clefs : Loire, barrages, environnement, patrimoine (mondial), action publique, acteurs, référentiels, mise sur agenda, problèmes publics, conflits / This study is an analysis of what was at first meant to be a political wish to spatially and economically regenerate a particular area but which later became a transversal public policy whereby the environment, and then the notion of heritage, became key factors. The river Loire, here, is being approached from both a spatial perspective, as well as a temporal perspective. It has been necessary to reconstruct the decision making process in terms of time in order to understand where we started from and where we got to today. Public policy, centred on the river Loire, is a mixture of diverse purposes: regeneration of a hydrosystem, ecology, urban regeneration, landscape, the notion of heritage, the notion of world heritage. The river Loire has been a platform upon which many projects have developed, but rarely leading to concrete results. The few results achieved are truly complex. The river Loire has been a place around which many debates, conflicts of ideology, and action have happened. The goal of this thesis is to understand the “Loire river related public policy” as well as its evolution. This has been done from perspective of the changes that happened as some “territorial agents” became involved: on one hand the involvement of some public agents, on the other the involvement of some ecology-driven ones. The latter took part in the gradual reshaping o objectives of the public policy of the area under scrutiny. We also had in mind to question the hypothesis according to which a territorial governance was to be put in place. This territorial governance was to symbolise the renewal of the public policy. We had in mind to see if, as is often evoked, the sort of actions and relations between different agents involved in the Loire project have had an impact on public politics of other geographical sites and spaces.