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Digital globes are emerging as one of the latest avatars in the cartography of global changes. Taking them as its object of study, SPHEROGRAPHIA is a research project with a twofold objective: firstly, to better understand the making of virtual globes through analysis of their promoters' intentions and the different ways in which they are constituted, by tracing the genealogy of their sources to reveal the disparities in the data underlying these visualizations; secondly, the project questions the performativity of globes on the imaginations and political commitments of those who feed them or use them. In this paper, we propose to intervene in two of the project's workstreams: on the one hand, a statistical exploration of more than 400 globes, which will enable us to describe the data mobilized, their context of use and semiotic choices; on the other hand, a focus on a case study centered on virtual globes devoted to biodiversity, in order to go beyond the apparent data deluge and reveal the data gap masked by these geovisualizations. To conclude, this contribution proposes to reflect on how geomatics can contribute to current discussions on the unequal geonumerization of the world. From both a theoretical and a methodological point of view, we will argue for the importance of GISciences taking the turn of critical data studies.

La prolongation du délai légal pour l’interruption volontaire de grossesse accorde aux femmes une autonomie corporelle, qui semble en contradiction avec l'attention actuelle portée à l'embryon et au fœtus. Grâce aux avancées en imagerie et biotechnologies, ceux-ci sont perçus comme des êtres sociaux, et rejaillissent sur eux toutes les qualités attribués aux nouveau-nés. Dans ce contexte, comment la société française régule-t-elle l'équilibre entre autonomie des femmes et vie anténatale ? Je montrerai qu’il est possible de penser ces deux mouvements apparemment opposés notamment en appréhendant l’engendrement comme un processus de transformation physique et statutaire inscrit dans une temporalité propre.