Alcantara, Christophe, Paquette, Jonathan, Martin, Sébastien and Bissonnette, Thierry (2021) Cultural Roads and Itineraries in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In: Cultural Roads and Itineraries: Concepts and Cases Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 15-39. ISBN 978-9-811-63532-8

Abstract

This chapter provides an interdisciplinary overview of the notion of roads, with a particular focus on cultural roads and cultural itineraries. The notion of roads is characterized by a rich cultural, historical, and disciplinary diversity. This chapter’s aim is to set the fact that the notion of roads is not self-evident, and propose further critical engagement with this notion through philosophy, history, geography, literature, social sciences, and information sciences.