Professor Denis Eckert | Associated Researcher
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CNRS
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Forschungsdirektor
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Geography
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Biography
Denis Eckert has worked in various research centres in France, Russia and Germany (Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, Moscow, Berlin), successively as a senior researcher and then as a research director at the CNRS. He has also been recently a visiting fellow in Montreal (CIRST 2015) and Leipzig (Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde 2015-2016). He has held various responsibilities (director of UMR, journal) and has been a member of various research evaluation bodies (National Research Agency, CNRS National Committee) and programme juries.
For 12 years he directed the online journal "Mappemonde" devoted to the question of the image and the map.
Researchtopic
Keywords: - Esperanto: Spatial History of a Global Language • Circulation of a Minority Language (Yiddish) • Contemporary Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe • Geography of Science • Cartography and vizualisation of spatialized data
Denis Eckert works on the circulation and spatialization of non-institutional languages such as Yiddish and Esperanto. He is particularly interested in the diffusion of Esperanto in the first decades of its existence (1887-1914), especially among minority groups in the Europe of the Empires.
His second field of research concerns the territorial dynamics of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on "in-between states" such as Ukraine. He has published on the history of borders in this area and the Donbass, on the history of the Crimean Bridge and on the cartography of linguistic practices in the Ukraine. He is involved in the ANR-DFG "Limspaces" (2021-2025) project, with the Centre Marc Bloch and ZOIS in Berlin, and Géographie-cités in Paris-Aubervilliers.
He also works on the geography of science. In this field of "Science Studies", he has carried out research using spatialized bibliometrics on a global scale (covering all cities with have a noticeable academic research activity).
Projects
ANR-DFG Project : LimSpaces « Living with Uncertainty – Strategies of Adaptation and Horizons of Expectation in Ukraine and Moldova » (2021-2024)
"Living with Uncertainty – Strategies of Adaptation and Horizons of Expectation in Ukraine and Moldova "
Centres de recherche partenaires: Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin), ZOIS (Berlin), Géographie-cités (Paris-Aubervilliers)
Principal Investigators:
- Sabine von Löwis, Senior Research Fellow, Zentrum für Osteuropa und internationale Studien (ZOiS), Berlin
- Béatrice von Hirschhausen, Directrice de recherche, Géographie-cités, Campus Condorcet, Paris-Aubervilliers
The globalization of the Esperanto language (1887-present): a geography of the circulation of a universalist project
Publications
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Books
Eckert D. (2012), Le monde russe (The Russian World), 3d edition, Paris: Hachette, 254 p. [first editions : 2004 and 2007]
Brunet R., Eckert D., Kolossov V., dir. (1995), Atlas de la Russie et des pays proches Montpellier-Paris: Reclus - La Documentation Française, 208 p. ISBN 2-11-003428-9
Scientific translations
Kappeler, Andreas. 2023. Russes et Ukrainiens: les frères inégaux, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Nouvelle édition actualisée. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 358 p. (translated from German by Denis Eckert)
Meyer, Holt. 2021. « Kundera ou l’impossible biographie : à propos de la parution du livre de Jan Novák sur les années tchèques de Milan Kundera ». Acta fabula 22(8). (translated from English by Denis Eckert)
Editorial of Books & Special Issues
Eckert D., Baron M., eds (2013), « La science, l’espace et les cartes », special issue, M@ppemonde, n°110 ; ISSN 1769-7298 http://mappemonde.mgm.fr/dos_science.html
Journal Articles
accepted
Eckert, Denis. « Naftali Naymanovich and the First Esperanto Textbook for Yiddish Speakers (1888) ». East European Jewish Affairs.
published
Eckert, Denis, et Ivan Savchuk. 2023. « Langues et territoires en Ukraine: ce qu’on croit savoir, et ce que l’on ne sait pas ». Questions Internationales (118):34‑37.
Eckert, Denis. 2022. « D’où vient l’idée que Russes et Ukrainiens forment un seul peuple ? » Mondes Sociaux. Magazine de Sciences Humaines et Sociales, avril 4. https://sms.hypotheses.org/29931
Eckert, Denis, Ivan Savchuk, Д. Екерт, et І. Савчук. 2022. « Міст війнн (Bridge of War) ». Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка / Географія (82‑83):24‑27. doi: http://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2721.2022.82.3.
Eckert, Denis, et Ivan Savchuk. 2022. « Le(s) pont(s) de Crimée avant 2014. Les discontinuités d’une longue histoire ». Mappemonde (133). doi: 10.4000/mappemonde.7304.
Eckert, Denis. 2019. « Українські кордони: сучасний стан і проблеми ». Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка (75):24‑28. doi: http://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2721.2019.75.4.
Maisonobe, M., Jégou, L., & Eckert, D. (2018). Delineating urban agglomerations across the world: a dataset for studying the spatial distribution of academic research at city level. Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography, (871). http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/29637
Eckert, D. (2017). « L’Ukraine ou les contours incertains d’un Etat européen ». L’Espace Politique 33(3). http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/4411
Eckert, D., & Lambroschini, S. (2017). La ligne de démarcation entre le Donbass et le reste de l’Ukraine. M@ppemonde, (119). http://mappemonde.mgm.fr/119lieu1/
Maisonobe, M., Grossetti, M., Milard, B., Jégou, L., & Eckert, D. (2017). The global geography of scientific visibility: a deconcentration process (1999-2011). Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2463-2
Maisonobe, M., Eckert, D., Grossetti, M., Jégou, L., & Milard, B. (2016). The world network of scientific collaborations between cities: domestic or international dynamics? Journal of Informetrics, 10(4), 1025–1036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.06.002
Maisonobe, M., Grossetti, M., Milard, B., Eckert, D., & Jégou, L. (2016). L’évolution mondiale des réseaux de collaborations scientifiques entre villes : des échelles multiples. Revue française de sociologie, 57(3), 417–441.
Grossetti M., Eckert D., Jegou L., Gingras Y., Lariviere V., Milard B. (2014), « Cities and the geographical deconcentration of scientific activity : a multi-level analysis of publications (1987-2007) », Urban Studies, 51(10) 2219–2234, doi: 10.1177/0042098013506047
Martin-Brelot H., Grossetti M., Eckert D., Gritsai O., Kovacs Z. (2010) « The spatial mobility of the 'creative class' : a European perspective », International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages 725–1007
Contribution to Edited Volumes
Eckert, D., Gouzévitch D., Gouzévitch I., et Pane M.-N. 2018. « La Russie, construction et crise d’un système scientifique ». in Les ancrages nationaux de la science mondiale XVIIIe-XXIe siècles, édité par M. Kleiche-Dray. Paris: Editions des Archives Contemporaines - Presses de l’IRD, p. 323‑54.
Eckert, D., Grossetti M., Jégou L., et Maisonobe M. (2018). « Les villes de la science contemporaine, entre logiques locales, nationales et globales. Une approche bibliométrique ». in Les ancrages nationaux de la science mondiale XVIIIe-XXIe siècles, édité par M. Kleiche-Dray. Paris: Editions des Archives Contemporaines - Presses de l’IRD, p. 37‑64
Grossetti, M., Eckert, D., Maisonobe, M., & Tallec, J. (2016). Four Commonly Held Beliefs About the Geography of Scientific Activities. In R. Shearmur, C. Carrincazeaux, & D. Doloreux (Eds.), Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Baron, M., Maisonobe, M., Jégou, L., & Eckert, D. (2015). Villes européennes et production scientifique mondiale. In D. Pumain & M.-F. Mattei (Eds.), Données urbaines 7 (Economica, Anthropos, pp. 285–296). Paris.
Eckert D., Murie A., Musterd S. (2010), « Pathways in Europe », in Making Competitive Cities, Musterd S., Murie A., Kovacs Z. (eds), London : Wiley-Blackwell, p. 35-42