Studying students’ macroregional imaginaries

Database and processing for the analysis of macro-regional imaginaries among students in Europe and its neighbours
Authors
Affiliations

Camille Dabestani

UMR Géographie-cités, Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Elina Marveaux

FR CIST, CNRS

Hugues Pecout

UMR Géographie-cités, CNRS

Published

October 28, 2024

Introduction

This site presents the "IMAGEUN - Student Survey" database produced within ANR-DFG IMAGEUN ANR-19-FRAL-011 project. This French-German research project aims at analysing the construction of macro-regional imaginaries, actors' representations of the various great regions in the world (Asia, Caribbeans, Europe…) mainly through the medias, policy-makers together with students. This last category was the public to which was addressed the “IMAGEUN - Student Survey” questionnaire survey between November 2021 and June 2022. It questions the macro-regional practices and representations of over 2,000 students in 5 countries (France, Germany, Ireland, Tunisia, Turkey), through the use of mental maps (representations of the world regions making sense to them) in order to analyse the semantic and spatial dimensions associated with the world regions. The initial objective of this site is to foster collaboration between the members of the research project, and in particular to make it easier for the team to get use of the data. It is also available beyond the project team for the reuse of the data.

Before presenting the database, the site therefore reviews the research project in which this work fits, the design of the questionnaire and the survey methodology implemented. The next step is to explain the processing and enrichments that were carried out to obtain the delivered database described after. Some details on how to get started are given to facilitate its use under specific conditions. Finally, some perspectives are presented, as well as the references used in designing the questionnaire.

The published datapaper

An academic datapaper presenting the data production and the database itsel are available to download :