Recent publications

Understanding the June riots in Paris, based on a study by Marco Oberti (Sciences Po – CRIS) and Maela Guillaume Le Gall (Sciences Po – École Polytechnique), was published on October 12, 2023 (in French).

We would like to draw your attention to an article by Santiago Gorostiza, Giacomo Parrinello, Daniel Aguettaz-Vilchez & David Saurí titled “Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River” in the journal of Political Geography, published in October 2023; Abstract At the intersection of natural and social sciences, interest in river sedimentary fluxes and their alteration by human activities is increasing in the context of general retreat of delta formations. Since the 1950s, the construction of large dams in the main course of rivers has produced, among other impacts, a radical decrease […]

The report «ATLANTIC CONNECTIONS. THE PCC AND THE BRAZIL–WEST AFRICA COCAINE TRADE» by Gabriel Feltran, Isabela Vianna Pinho & Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo was published in August 2023 by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

“The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies”, edited by Patrick Le Galès & Jennifer Robinson, was published in September 2023. Abstract The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. […]

We hereby signal the publication of a new article by Sukriti Issar entitled “Nuisance, Planning and the Common Law in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay” in the journal The Journal of Legal History, published in June 2023. Abstract The literature on the legal transfer of English property law to colonial South Asia has long focused on the agrarian context. Urban property and the built environment remain understudied. This article explores how the common law of nuisance found its way into the workings of a Committee of Buildings in late eighteenth-century Bombay. An analysis of the internal files of the Committee of Buildings […]