Publications récentes
7 juin 2023
Nous vous signalons la parution d’un chapitre de Thomas Lacroix intitulé « From a De Facto to a De Jure Role of Local Authorities in the Governance of International Migration » dans le Research Handbook on the Institutions of Global Migration Governance édité par Edward Elgar Publishing. Extract In November 2018, the 5th Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development took place in Marrakesh. The event went relatively unheeded, as it was overshadowed by the signing of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration by UN Member States, which took place at the same time. Yet the Mayoral Forum […]
1 juin 2023
Nous vous signalons la parution d’un chapitre de Marco Cremaschi intitulé ‘Urban Planning’ dans l’ouvrage Research Handbook on Public Sociology (Elgar Publishing, 2023). Abstract The chapter acknowledges a double bind between Public Sociology and the vast and ‘messy’ realm of Urban Planning: although a persistent gap, the two fields share a few critical points and crucial issues. On one side, the applied field of planning tries to rationalise age-old practices of regulating the spatial settlement of societies with a cumbersome heritage of specialised concerns: as a result, some aspects lie far away from PS interests: the technical concerns, the various […]
25 mai 2023
Nous vous signalons la parution de l’article de Côme Salvaire intitulé « Debris of sovereignty: discards and territorial domination in a popular neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria » dans la revue Territory, Politics, Governance. Abstract In Lagos’s popular neighbourhoods, the economic transformations of the 1980s have brought about the emergence of popular economies of urban mining centred on discards. In the district of Mushin, discards have at the same time sustained the emergence of powerful street lords. Based on an ethnography of the neighbourhood of Sàkani, this article details associations between local powerholders and garbage, while analysing the central role played by waste […]
23 mai 2023
Nous vous signalons la parution d’un article de Jonathan Pratschke, Tommaso Vitale, Niccolò Morelli, Bruno Cousin, Matteo Piolatto & Matteo Del Fabro intitulé « Electoral support for the 5 Star Movement in Milan: An ecological analysis of social and spatial factors » dans le numéro 5 du volume 45 de la revue Journal of Urban Affairs. AbstractAfter the 2018 general election, several scholars remarked on the failure of the 5 Star Movement (5SM) to increase its vote in Milan. While the role of demographic and socioeconomic factors has been highlighted, little attention has been devoted to spatial dynamics. The authors analyze the […]
29 mars 2023
Nous vous signalons la parution d’un article d’Émilie Moreau, Clément Boisseuil et Sandra Roger intitulé « Mixité sociale et ségrégation, l’importance des politiques de logement » dans la publication La Grande Conversation en mars 2023. Résumé L’étude menée par l’Atelier parisien d’urbanisme avec l’Insee Ile de France sur la mixité sociale dans le Grand Paris apporte un enseignement essentiel sur le rôle crucial des politiques de logement pour lutter contre la ségrégation résidentielle. Qu’il s’agisse des « quartiers de riches », générés par les processus d’auto-ségrégation des plus aisés, ou des « quartiers de pauvres », générés par la concentration du logement […]