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Sciences Po, Salle K008, 1 Place Saint Thomas d’Aquin & Zoom* Compulsory Registration De la paranoïa et de la haine. L’instabilité du monde du crime en banlieue parisienne. (On paranoïa and hate. The instability of the criminal world). Les théories de la désorganisation sociale étudient le crime comme un raté de l’expérience, un défaut dans la trame du social. Dans le sillage du travail pionnier de William F. Whyte sur l’organisation des « slums », cette présentation documente l’organisation sociale de l’expérience criminelle au carrefour d’un milieu et d’un type de subjectivité. À partir de l’éthique du défi et du sens de la […]

Sciences Po, Salle du Conseil, 13 Rue de l’Université & Zoom* Compulsory Registration Shaping the night: How data illuminates the human experience after dark We are witnessing a new era in urban governance where real-time data streams are enabling cities to predict and optimize the dynamic patterns of urban life. However, data-driven findings are incomplete without human-centered insights to understand how people and place shape one another. Gehl’s methods and digital tools to study people’s lived experience reveal that public life at night is very different from public life during the day. Drawing from years of experience in night-time governance […]

Room K008, 1 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris & Zoom* Compulsory Registration « Public Security, Private Interests: On Social Conflict in Contemporary Brazil » Crime, violence and urban militarisation are themes widely explored in the urban studies literature focused on large Latin American cities. With high homicide and violent crime rates, the region features prominently in discussions of public security, accelerated urbanisation and violence. A series of urban ethnographies has explored how violence is connected to the conduct of everyday life, cultural and social representation, and urban territorial governance, processes of city-making and the reproduction of social inequalities. There is little discussion, […]

Sciences Po, Salle de Conseil, 13 Rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris & Zoom* Compulsory Registration Towards a Science of Cities The recent availability of data about various aspects of cities allows us to envision a science of cities validated by empirical observations. In this talk, I will discuss and illustrate with examples three major points that constitute the pillars of such a program: data (focusing on mobile phone data), modeling (including parsimonious models, simulations, and digital twins), and links with policymakers and planners. Speaker Marc Barthelemy is a former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris (rue d’Ulm). After his thesis […]

CEE Key Themes Seminar* Mandatory Registration Sciences Po, 9 rue de la Chaise, 75007 Paris & Zoom A standard approach to understanding drug markets has been the Risks and Prices model (Reuter and Kleiman, 1986) and its dynamic version developed by Caulkins and Reuter (2011). Both versions assume drug markets move to an equilibrium because drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) can fairly be modeled as responding to competitive pressures by adopting available profit-motivated business practices. More recent empirical studies and the emergence of new market forms (e.g., new synthetic drugs, on-line sales, cryptomarkets) have increased the need for models that address when, […]

Online* Compulsory Registration Title: Presentation of the book “Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa” Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa delivers a theoretically informed, ethnographic exploration of the African urban world through the life of concrete. Emblematic of frenetic urban and capitalistic development, this material is pervasive, shaping contemporary urban landscapes and societies and their links to the global world. It stands and circulates at the heart of major financial investments, political forces and environmental debates. At the same time, it epitomises values of modernity and success, redefining social practices, forms of dwelling and living, and […]

Sciences Po, Room K031, 1 Place Saint Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris & Zoom* Compulsory Registration When will local governments take meaningful action on fair housing? The impacts of a 2018 law in California Localized resistance to fair housing and social integration is a challenge facing cities around the world. A 2018 California law requires local governments to affirmatively further fair housing when updating their eight-year housing plans, mandating ‘meaningful action’ towards fair housing goals. We assess the impact of this law by examining eight Southern California municipalities’ 2021-2029 housing plans. In addition, we ask whether local governments are planning for […]

Sciences Po, Online via Zoom* Compulsory Registration Launch of the book The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies. Routledge, 2023. 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. Comparative […]

Seminar Cities are back in town Compulsory Registration Thursday 19 October 2023 5:00 – 7 pm CEST (hybrid) Sciences Po, Salle K011, 1 Place Saint Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris Taxis vs. Uber: knowledge, practices and technological disruption in an urban setting Based on an ethnography of Uber’s conflict with Buenos Aires’ taxis drivers, in this presentation I will discuss how technological disruption affects the political, economic and ethical relations that bind us together. By 2016, over a century and a half of rules, value hierarchies and exclusions rendered practices, bodies and relations knowable in the taxi industry, under the premise […]

Seminar Cities are back in town WIP (Work In Process) Compulsory Registration Thursday 5 October 2023 5:00 – 7 pm CEST (hybrid) Sciences Po, Salle du Conseil – 13 Rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris Muddling on Pathways of Urban Redevelopment: Same Rhyme, Different Tones, and Diverse Trajectories of Chinese Urbanism Inspired by both ongoing debates of universalism/globalism vis-à-vis polycentrism/postcolonialism and an observed shift of emphasis in Chinese urbanization from urban sprawl to urban renewal, this research investigates the diverse trajectories of urban redevelopment in five leading Chinese cities, namely Beijing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The remaking of China’s urban […]

Seminar Cities are back in town WIP(Work In Process) Urban Governance in Dysfunctional States: City-Making by the “Republic of NGOs” in Post-Blast Beirut  Thursday 21 September 20235:15 – 7 pm CEST (in-person) Sciences Po, Room J2081 3 Rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris Compulsory Registration This talk explores urban governance and city-making in the context of dysfunctional states, taking as its case-study one of the latest disasters in the Lebanese capital—the explosion of the Port of Beirut on August 4, 2020. Based on participant observation, interviews, and a survey with more than 100 actors, we map the post-blast response at the national […]

Sciences Po, Online via Zoom* Compulsory Registration Presentation of the book Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency. Manchester University Press, 2023. Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the ‘city’ as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat seeks to turn UPE’s critical energies towards a politically engaged debate over the […]

International Conference Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?Monday 10th July, 20239 am – 5 pm CEST Sciences Po, Room K0111 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris­Compulsory Registration­ Session 1 (9 am – 12 pm) – Google and Cities: A Political Economy Approach Nicolas Descamps (Strasbourg National School of Architecture) – Cloudless (?) A look at Google’s real estate strategies and land use in Mountain View and San José Margherita Monti, Davide Blotta (Universita di Bologna, Universita di Urbino Carlo Bo) – The politics of Alphabet in the Occupied Territories of Palestine Burcu Baykurt (University of Massachusetts Amherst) – Google Urbanism […]

Le 23 juin de 14h00 à 16h00, le CEE, l’École Urbaine et le groupe de recherche « Politiques antidiscriminatoires » (CERI), accueilleront dans l’Amphithéâtre Érignac (au 3e étage du 13 rue de l’Université), Loïc Wacquant, Professeur de sociologie à l’Université de Californie à Berkeley qui viendra présenter et discuter son dernier ouvrage : Misère de l’ethnographie de la misère (Éditions Raisons d’Agir, 2023) Pour vous inscrire, veuillez suivre ce lien.

Le Lab de l’École urbaine de Sciences Po a le plaisir de vous convier à l’événement annuel de présentation et de discussion des projets collectifs de l’année. Étudiants, partenaires, enseignants, chercheurs ou professionnels des villes et des territoires, cette journée est pour vous ! Venez échanger sur les grandes questions urbaines et territoriales contemporaines. 41 projets collectifs200 étudiants mobilisés30 intervenants Tous les ans, les étudiants sont mis en situation de travail sur une problématique réelle posée par une organisation publique ou privée. Ces projets seront présentés de manière croisées lors d’ateliers, en présence des tuteurs et des partenaires, et seront […]

Sciences Po, Online via Zoom* Compulsory Registration Presentation of the book Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London, Penguin, 2022. London is a plutocrat’s paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London’s super rich, and the lives they lead? To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey, via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair and elsewhere. Her walks reveal how the […]

Matinée d’études Co-organisée par le Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée, l’École Urbaine de Sciences Po, APERAU et AUF Recherche et compétition internationale : un double défi en urbanisme ?Jeudi 25 mai 20238h45 – 13h00 Sciences Po, Amphithéâtre Jeannie de Clarens27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris Matinée suivie par l’AG de l’APERAU, réservée aux membres (14h-17h30)­ Formulaire d’inscription­ La carrière académique devient de plus en plus complexe et compétitive, et ce n’est pas un hasard si seul une partie des doctorants parvient à s’assurer une entrée pérenne à l’université. De plus en plus, les nouveaux docteurs en études urbaines trouvent […]

Sciences Po, Online via Zoom* Compulsory Registration Transforming Towards Sustainability In and Through Cities This talk will explore three things: 1) Urbanization and cities in the context of sustainability; 2) Sustainability experiments and transition within and across cities, drawing on our work in Chinese, Japanese and Australian cities; and 3) Sustainability transition through cities, looking at the role of cities in accelerating energy transition and the importance of linking cities to safe and just Earth System Boundaries, drawing on our recent work within Earth Commission which is aiming at identifying safe and just Earth System boundaries, and in particular its […]

Seminar Cities are back in town WIP(Work In Process) Inhabiting Beirut’s Cycles of Boom and Bust Thursday 20th April 20235 – 7 pm CEST (in-person) Sciences Po, Room C.S261 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris Compulsory Registration This presentation seeks to locate urban dwelling within the cycles of boom and bust that characterize today’s cities (Murray 2021). It focuses on the inhabitance of tenants coerced to live in the interstices of these cycles, occupying either residual spaces left in the aftermath of earlier (failed) investments or spaces held through predatory investments in anticipation of future redevelopment (Ren 2014). Following Blomley (2020), […]

Google, acteur des politiques locales ? Journée d’études organisée par la chaire Villes et numérique de Sciences Po. Paris, 10 juillet 2023 La chaire Villes et numérique de l’École urbaine de Sciences Po, en partenariat avec le Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée, organise le 10 juillet 2023 une journée d’études portant sur la thématique « Google et territoires ». Incontournable dans le quotidien des citadins et dans les discours sur la ville numérique, l’articulation entre Google et la gouvernance territoriale soulève un ensemble de problématiques, encore étonnamment relativement peu explorées dans la littérature scientifique. Cette journée d’études, organisée en trois axes […]

Seminar Cities are back in town WIP(Work In Process) (Machine) Learning from Historical Maps: Land Use and Urbanisation, France c. 1760-2020 Co-authors: Gilles Duranton (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania), Laurent Gobillon (Paris School of Economics), and Clément Gorin (University of Toronto) Thursday 30 March 20235 – 7 pm CET Sciences Po, Room Goguel27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris Compulsory Registration The presentation is based on two papers that study the evolution of urbanisation in France over the last 250 years using information extracted from historical maps. The first paper uses machine learning technics to extract land use information from historical military maps […]

City Lab IX: Cities and states: exploring a complicated relationship, University of Antwerp, 10-14th July 2023 Cities and nation states have historically maintained a complicated relationship. In the late Middle Ages, notably in Europe, cities and states were competing to become the dominant entity through which society is politically organized and governed. At the same time, cities and the modern political institutions they nurtured served as building blocks for nation-state formation. While over the past two centuries cities were effectively ‘caged’ within national (welfare) states, since the 1980s, global societal trends like economic globalization, migration and climate change are eroding national boundaries […]

Seminar Cities are back in town WIP(Work In Process) Présentation du livre‘Le capitalisme à main armée. Caïds et patrons à Karachi’ Jeudi 09 mars 202317h – 19h Sciences Po, Salle K0111 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris Formulaire d’inscription Le 11 septembre 2012, 255 ouvriers et ouvrières des Ali Enterprises, fabriquant des jeans pour le compte du groupe allemand KiK, périssent dans l’incendie de leur usine à Karachi. Accident ou attentat ? La tragédie suscite des interprétations contradictoires. Faut-il incriminer les logiques prédatrices de la fast-fashion ou les méthodes mafieuses des partis politiques qui ont mis la ville en coupe réglée ?Partant de la […]

Screening of ‘PCC Secret Power’ documentary (HBOMax 2022) & round table (co-organised with CEE, Sciences Po) Thursday 23rd February 20235 – 7 pm CETSciences Po, Amphithéâtre Jean Moulin, 13 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris This event will take place concurrently with Sciences Po, Poitiers Campus Registration ©HBOmax The PCC holds the hegemony of crime in São Paulo and has a growing transnational presence. It has now become the largest criminal organisation in Latin America, and it extends to other continents as well. The documentary series ‘PCC Secret Power’ (HBO Max, 2022) adapts the ethnographic book « Irmãos » (Gabriel Feltran, 2018) in 4 episodes. Narrated by the « brothers » and […]

Masterclass Presenter: Pedro Homem de Gouveia, Senior Policy & Project Manager at POLIS, the leading network of European cities and regions committed to Transport Innovation. He leads the Working Groups for Governance & Integration, and Safety & Security, supports the POLIS Political Group and the POLIS Leadership Summit, and works on several EU policy files. Pedro has extensive experience in the fields of Universal Design, Public Space, Pedestrian Accessibility, Street Safety and Public Participation. He worked for more than 20 years at the local level, as a strategist, designer, trainer, consultant, and political advisor. In the City of Lisbon, he […]

A l’occasion de la publication d’une étude sur les évolutions de la mixité sociale et ségrégation dans la Métropole du Grand Paris, l’Atelier parisien d’urbanisme (Apur) et l’Insee organise une table-ronde en partenariat avec l’École urbaine de Sciences Po. L’étude appréhende la mixité à une échelle fine, sur une période de 15 ans, pour compléter l’analyse des disparités socio-territoriales et les dynamiques à l’œuvre à l’échelle de la métropole. La discussion permettra de mettre en perspective et de prolonger les enseignements de cette étude en lien avec d’autres travaux menés sur des métropoles françaises ou à l’international. Accueil Présentation de […]

AxPo & « Cities Are Back in Town » joint seminar Presenter: Ugo Rossi, Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Gran Sasso Science Institute Title: « The Return of the Urban State: The Political Construction of Technology-Driven Economies » Discussion by: Tommaso Vitale, Dean of the Urban School, Sciences Po When: Thursday, 2 February 2023, 17:00-19:00Where: Location: K.011*, 1 Place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin 75007, Sciences Po, Paris *There will also be a Zoom link to enable a hybrid seminar.* Registration required here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10D6ACtpvmFDtqkjLWW2fGJm37dSJM_-3c0-DDZ1Hmng/edit Abstract Within current debates on the ‘return of the state’, the state is regarded as an almost absent actor in […]

Sciences Po, Online via Zoom* Compulsory Registration Infrastructure constitutes a key perspective for the analysis of social change. At the same time, infrastructures exemplify the tension between dynamism and permanence. While they facilitate the constant movement of resource and capital flows, they are also characterised by a visible obduracy that makes them impervious to change. This talk will explore how ideas of change and permanence have been analysed in infrastructure studies. It will especially focus on the alternatives generated from a landscape perspective. Infrastructure landscape perspectives foreground the complex socio-technical and socio-ecological relations that situate infrastructures in specific conditions and […]

CITIES ARE BACK IN TOWN & AIRE (ATELIER INTERDISCIPLINAIRE DE RECHERCHES SUR L’ENVIRONNEMENT)En présentiel /in-person – Événement bilingue / bilingual event Sciences Po, Salle K011 1 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris Inscription 13:30 – Remise des Prix de la Recherche Étudiante sur l’Environnement 2022 de l’Atelier Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur l’Environnement / Awarding of prizes for the Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Workshop’s 2022 Student Research Prize on the Environment 14:00 – TABLE RONDE 1 – VILLES, POST-CROISSANCE ET TRANSITION JUSTE Les villes étant le lieu principal de l’accumulation capitaliste et production des dommages infligés à la planète, la question de la […]

Sciences Po, salle H405 au 28 rue des Saints-Pères 75007 et par Zoom. Formulaire d’inscription En 2050, près de 2 milliards de personnes supplémentaires vivront en milieu urbain, dans des villes et métropoles largement exposées à l’internationalisation des flux et des migrations. Face à une concurrence économique accrue, les villes n’ont d’autre choix que de se restructurer et ces changements confrontent les citadins et les décideurs à des défis inédits. Cet ouvrage interroge la façon dont ces recompositions urbaines et sociétales majeures se donnent à voir et sont pensées par les décideurs et les habitants. Il interroge les façons dont […]

Sciences Po, Room K.031 – 1 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris and via Zoom* Compulsory Registration Between 1980 and 2015, Amsterdam changed from a poor city under a radical left-wing government to a city dominated by middle classes. Our central concern is to explain and understand this transformation; and to reveal the mechanisms that (re-)made Amsterdam as a middle-class city. This book asks the question how can a city ruled by the socialist or social democratic Labour Party for a century, and internationally famed for its social policies, become a place where gentrification sets the tone and (neo)liberal urbanism takes […]

“CITIES AND MIGRATION: PERSPECTIVES ON INTERDEPENDENCIES” JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDES DOCTORALES DU CEE 2022 ­  Tuesday 8 December 2022 Sciences Po, Room Salle du Conseil, 13 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris Compulsory Registration PROGRAMME: 09:00 am – Welcome coffee 09:30 am – Introduction Florence Faucher (Sciences Po, CEE) 09:40 am – Keynote lecture « Roma in European Cities: A Contentious Embeddedness » Tommaso Vitale (Sciences Po, CEE & Dean of Sciences Po Urban School) 10:30 am Break 10:45 am – Round Table 1 “Migration dynamics, urban inequalities, and identities” Chair: Gabriel Feltran (Sciences Po,CEE, CNRS) Y a-t-il un lien entre « culturalisme » et « fatalisme » ? […]

Sciences Po, Room TBA, and via Zoom* Compulsory Registration In a wired and globalized world, how do place-based social interactions continue to define cities and their civil society? In response to this question, a recent collection of essays from San Francisco, Seattle, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sydney, and Vienna suggests a dual emphasis on place and organizations. Based on data from the Civic Life of Cities project, we show how comparisons of the people, practices, and partnerships of civil society organizations enable new middle-range theories of civil society. Our approach promises to offer rich comparative insights into similarities and differences among organizations […]

Sciences Po, Salle K031, 1 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris Séminaire en présentiel, Inscription obligatoire La présence d’enfants non accompagnés dans nos rues est devenue suffisamment rare pour susciter la curiosité, l’interrogation, voire la réprobation. En effet, dans les sociétés occidentales contemporaines, l’enfant a progressivement désinvesti l’espace urbain extérieur pour devenir un « enfant d’intérieur ». Si de nombreux facteurs interviennent dans ce processus, le rôle des parents est primordial : les ressources culturelles et matérielles dont ils disposent, les souvenirs qu’ils gardent de leur propre enfance, les pratiques éducatives qu’ils mettent en œuvre, les normes de comportement et de présentation […]

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will host the ninth edition of the Annual PhD Workshop in a hybrid format (virtually and in-person) from 9 to 11 January 2023. With a strong inter-disciplinary focus, as well as an emphasis on the relationship between research and practice, IIHS nurtures research and innovation focused on the challenges and opportunities of India’s urban transition. IIHS has built a substantive on-ground presence of direct policy and programmatic engagement across India, across middle and senior administrative levels, and in multiple urban contexts in the global South. This makes for a globally unique opportunity for […]

The seventh edition of Urban ARC, the Annual Research Conference of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, will be conducted between 12-14 January 2023, virtually and in person at the IIHS Bengaluru City Campus. The theme for this edition is ‘Cities in Flux’. The call emphasises the broad spectrum of the nature of flux in and across our cities. Indeed, flux and the organic pathways that it creates in the development and evolution of cities have been the impetus for knowledge production in the Urban. They are influenced by changes in societal settings and inequality, economic processes and structure, social […]

Sciences Po, Room J 208, 13 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris In-person Seminar, Compulsory registration The lecture presents a book project that revisits the connections between British indirect rule in Kuwait and development processes that ensured the growth of the urban center and its expansion beyond the town wall. By doing so, it explores the nexus between renewed British pledges to Kuwaiti sheikhs that increased the flow of British goods, loans, and services and development processes that consolidated power in the hands of a few urban notables. Thisexpands the analytical framework of Gulf studies beyond oil/urban development analysis and instead offers […]

VILLES ET MIGRATIONS : REGARDS CROISÉS SUR DES INTERDÉPENDANCES Les doctorantes et les doctorants du Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée de Sciences Po organisent le 8 décembre 2022 leur quatrième journée d’études doctorales, sur le thème “ Villes et migrations: regards croisés sur des interdépendances ”. La journée d’études prendra la forme d’une série de tables rondes, chacune organisée autour d’une problématique spécifique et de plusieurs communications discutées par un ou une chercheure et un ou une doctorante du Centre. L’ambition de cette journée est d’enrichir le débat académique avec les travaux des doctorantes et doctorants en sciences sociales, tout en les […]

MaxPo seminar – The Density Paradox: How Rising Geographic Inequality is Reshaping American Democracy Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University, Department of Political ScienceDiscussant: Jan Rovny, CEE/LIEPP, Sciences PoLocation: Room K.008, 1 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 ParisPlease register to attend The Density Paradox: How Rising Geographic Inequality Is Reshaping American DemocracyRising geographic inequality and increasing place-based party polarization are reshaping American democracy. Central to this transformation is what my coauthor Paul Pierson and I call the “Density Paradox.” In the urban-oriented knowledge economy, density is very good for productivity and growth, which is why dense metro agglomerations are pulling away from […]

Sciences Po, Online via Zoom*, Compulsory registration This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India. It presents a in-depth perspective on the tensions and conflicts pervading the development and regulation of contemporary cities in the wider context of planetary urbanization, and broadens readers’ understanding of urban planning, chiefly focusing on the interplay between grassroots movements, experts’ involvement, and sociotechnical questions. As the respective chapters of the book show, the various controversies surrounding the Mumbai Development Plan (MDP) have called into question the social and political effects of reshaping the city, the exclusion, and inequalities it […]

Un monde s’invente sous nos yeux qui semble nous échapper. Climat, globalisation, numérique…. Les défis s’accumulent et chacun suscite une défiance croissante envers les institutions démocratiques. Abstention record, Gilets jaunes, repli sur soi… Les modèles forgés au fil des quatre derniers siècles semblent épuisés. Il suffit pourtant d’écouter attentivement les citoyens pour se rendre compte de leur intérêt pour la politique et leur sens de l’intérêt général ! Les dirigeants ont-ils assez confiance en eux pour les entendre et les associer à leurs décisions ? À toute crise sa refondation et la voie d’un dépassement existe. Au bord de l’abîme, […]

Sciences Po, Online via Zoom*, Compulsory registration Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to this tendency, They Eat Our Sweat offers a fresh and engaging look at the corruption complex in Africa through a micro analysis of its informal transport sector, where collusion between state and nonstate actors is most rife. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital and Africa’s largest city, Daniel Agbiboa investigates the workaday world of road transport operators as refracted through the extortion racket and violence of […]

Wednesday 13 July 2022​ 12.30 – 2.30 pm Sciences Po, Room K.008 1 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007, Paris The relationship between cities and national states is a recurrent concern in urban studies (Therborn, 2017) (Tilly, 1992). The power of national states is based on their capacity to regulate socio-political tensions and conflicts through centralization and territorialization. During the past centuries, national states’ collective capacity to act by far surpassed that of any rivalling political entity, including that of cities. However, since the 1980s, this situation is changing, with national states finding it increasingly difficult to extract resources from and wield […]

Sciences Po, Salle du Conseil, 13 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris. Compulsory Registration Interpretations of socialist heritage are often quite one-sided or limited. Critical analysis of such heritage requires an extension of methods, knowledge, and fields. During the seminar, Ievgeniia Gubkina will share her experience and interdisciplinary approach that she uses in her scientific and activist work within various architectural, art and educational projects. It allows her to reveal other layers of social, political and historical through architecture and built environment. The focus will be on the methods and optics that she refer to. The screening of « You See, Time […]

As the war in Ukraine drags on, this event will address political and urban dimensions of heritage protection through a discussion with the leading Ukrainian architect and scholar, co-founder of the Urban Forms Center in Kharkiv, Ievgeniia Gubkina, and the Director of the Culture and Emergencies entity at UNESCO, Krista Pikkat. After the Euro Maidan revolution in 2014, Ukraine has become a beacon for grass-roots experiments in Soviet heritage conservation. NGOs, artists and heritage interpreters are all involved, and a nation-wide discussion about architecture as vehicle for debating conflicting memories, nationhood, citizenship, corruption and new arts forms is unfolding. Ukrainian modernist interpreters […]

Seminar Cities are back in town What can studying infrastructure teach us about urban politics? Lessons from intermittent water supply in India Tuesday 31 May 20225.30 – 7.15 pm CESTSciences Po, exclusively online Reflecting on a set of related research projects on the politics of water delivery in Bangalore, India, I will propose revisions to a number of standard theoretical accounts of urban politics, as well as methodological approaches to studying urban policy in the Global South and more broadly. Five themes will be emphasized: the importance of understanding bureaucratic politics, and especially the political roles exercised by street level […]

Sciences Po, 1 Place Saint Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris, salle K008, Compulsory Registration This research addresses how metropolitan regions are strategic spaces for pro- and anti-immigrant social movements. In particular, we ask how do different jurisdictions in metropolitan regions impact the strategies of pro- and anti-immigrant advocates? Immigration scholars maintain that policy emerges from multiple jurisdictions operating at different levels of government. However, many scholars of immigration activism continue to conceptualize activism as unfolding within single jurisdictional containers. This paper aims to close the gap between conceptions of the institutional field and conceptions of activism through a case study of […]

Sciences Po, exclusively on Zoom (you will receive the link of this seminar after your registration), Compulsory Registration Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have turned from analyzing the state’s neglect and abandonment into documenting its harsh interventions and punishing presence. Yet, we know very little about the covert world of state action that is hidden from public view. In The Ambivalent State, Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering offer an unprecedented look into the clandestine relationships between police agents and drug dealers in Argentina. In this presentation, Javier Auyero examines the illicit relationships that […]

Tuesday, 26 April 5 pm to 7 pmAmphitheater Emile Boutmy, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris Mandatory Registration Cities are at the forefront of the climate crisis. The recently published sixth assessment report by the Working Group II of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), devoted to adaptation, leaves no doubts: the risks faced by people and assets because of climate change have increased in urban and rural settlements alike. Adaptation, however, is not keeping pace. Chapter 6, devoted to “Cities, Settlements and Key Infrastructure”, highlights the existence of an “adaptation gap”: measures for cities, settlements and infrastructure to adapt to […]

Monday, April 11, 2022 | 13:00−14:30The New State Capitalism and the City of London Matthew Eagleton-Pierce, SOAS University of LondonDiscussant: Sukriti Issar, OSC/Sciences PoLocation: Room K.008, 1 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris***There will also be a Zoom option to enable a hybrid seminar***Please register to attend The heterogenous literature on the so-called ‘new state capitalism’ has provoked considerable academic and popular interest in recent years, but also critique regarding how to analytically bolster the concept and improve empirical understanding. As the largest exporter of financial services in the world, the City plays a crucial yet controversial role in the reproduction […]

Seminar Cities WIP (Work in Process)  Sciences Po, Room K008, 1 Place Saint Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris , Compulsory registration This paper discusses some of the innovations and difficulties in multilevel governance of homelessness since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Homelessness varies a great deal geographically. National policies to address it, where they even exist, are administered at a very local level, often in partnership with the private nonprofit sector. Even in the best of times, multilevel governance challenges introduce uneven responses to homelesssness and housing instability. When the Covid-19 crisis hit, policy responses were likewise hampered by inefficient […]

Sciences Po, exclusively on Zoom (you will receive the link of this seminar after your registration), Compulsory Registration The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period. It analyses the circumstances under which greening interventions can create a new set of inequalities for socially vulnerable residents while also failing to eliminate other environmental risks and impacts. Based on fieldwork in ten countries and on the analysis of core planning, policy and activist documents and data, the book offers a critical view of the growing green planning orthodoxy […]

April 8, 2022 | Sciences Po | 1 place Saint Thomas d’Aquin 75007 Paris room K.027  Supported by UCL’s Global Engagement Funds, Cities partnerships Programme Organisers:Haim Yacobi, UCLEric Verdeil, Sciences Po-CERIHelene Thiollet, Sciences Po-CERI  Programme : 09:00 Opening  09:15-10:15 Catalina Ortiz, UCL – Living heritage stories: Cultural organizations reimagining the Post-Revolution Medina of Tunis    10:30-11:30 Shreya Parikh, Sciences Po – Mapping urban racial segregation: The case of Bhar Lazreg in Tunisia  11:30-12:30 Camillo Boano, UCL – Against completedness and composition (Lebanon)  12:30-14:00 Lunch Break   14:15-15:15 Hannah Sender, UCL – What makes a city? Understanding urban change through comparison, with young residents of the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon  15:30-16:30 Laurie Merigeaud, Sciences Po – From Choucha […]

Date:  25 Mars, 2022 – 09:30 – 13:00 Workshop of the Key Theme « The state as producer of public policies » Sciences Po, Room K.011, 1 Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris, Compulsory Registration This workshop explores the transformations of energy transitions in Western European cities, addressing the formidable challenge of governance of these transitions by city energy uses and the increasing weight of mobility challenges as part of these. In the face of important environmental commitments in the form of decarbonization strategies, road space allocation and reallocation of energy uses for the purposes of enhanced sustainability, how is the choice for electric […]

Seminar Cities WIP (Work in Process)  Sciences Po, Room K008, 1 Place Saint Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris , Compulsory registration In 2016, Francesca Bria, the newly appointed Digital Commissioner of Barcelona, presented Barcelona’s Digital Transformation Plan (DTP), an explicit attempt to move “from a model of surveillance capitalism, where data is opaque and not transparent, to a model where citizens themselves can own and control the data”. Barcelona’s DTP’s central objective was to enhance the city’s and citizens’ data and technological sovereignty and, by doing so, catalyze a whole new form of the digital information economy, a more egalitarian and […]

TO MARK THE LAUNCH OF THE MOOC “DATA AND URBAN GOVERNANCE”, THE CITIES AND DIGITAL CHAIR OF THE URBAN SCHOOL IS ORGANIZING A WEBINAR ON ISSUES OF DATA TRANSFORMATIONS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. In the last few years, a growing number of large local authorities have appeared to be seized, more or less at the same time, by the desire to do a sort of « data update » of their organizations and ways of doing. Cross-functional teams are set up to carry out a data agenda; new specialists’ positions are introduced (data scientists, engineers, analysts) in operational departments; information systems are redesigned to […]

Le Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Énergies de Demain (LIED) (Université de Paris) et l’axe Politiques environnementales du LIEPP (Sciences Po) ont le plaisir de vous inviter à une journée d’étude dédiée au climat urbain : 3ème Workshop Climat Urbain : Du fondamental aux solutions d’adaptation au changement climatique La journée aura lieu mardi 15 mars 2022 de 9h30 à 16h00, en format hybride. Lieux : UFR de Physique de l’Université de Paris, (4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris) et via Zoom matin : amphithéâtre Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, au 1er sous-sol après-midi : salle Luc Valentin 454A Inscription gratuite mais obligatoire auprès de martin.hendel@u-paris.fr […]

Date: 17 Mars, 2022 – 15:00 – 17:00 SECOND WEBINAIRE ORGANISÉ PAR LE COLLECTIF D’ASSOCIATION ROMEUROPE CONSACRÉ AU PROJET R-HOME – ROMS : LOGEMENT, OPPORTUNITÉS, MOBILISATION ET EMPOWERMENT* Inscription obligatoire Ce webinaire fait suite à la présentation de l’étude transnationale « R-Home » sur les politiques publiques qui déterminent les conditions d’accès au logement des personnes qui s’auto-identifient comme Roms en France. Il s’inscrit dans la continuité de celui-ci, mais élargit la focale à des projets et des programmes de logement et d’amélioration des conditions de vie menés avec les habitant·es rroms en Espagne, Italie, France et Roumanie. L’innovation des projets présentés […]

Cities are back in Town webinar Sciences Po, Webinar, Compulsory registration In Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities, Eleonora Pasotti explores the forces that enable residents of ‘aspiring global cities,’ or economically competitive cities, to mobilize against gentrification and other forms of displacement, as well as what makes mobilizations successful. The book examines twenty-nine protest campaigns over a decade in ten major cities across five continents, from Santiago to Seoul to Los Angeles. Eleonora Pasotti examines several partisan and institutional factors that explain protest outcomes. She also sheds light on an approach that is both understudied and remarkably effective – […]

Programme of the Cities are Back in Town Seminar Series 2021-2022 Second Semester (Thursdays, 5.30-7.15pm CEST/CET online, 5-7pm in-person) Cities Webinar, 27 January 2022, online: Yuri Kazepov (Professor of International Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems, University of Vienna) & Michael Friesenecker (Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology and the Department of Geography, University of Vienna) Still a just city? Recent (dis-)continuities in Vienna’s housing and environmental policy Discussant: Pierre Wokuri (CEE, Sciences Po) Cities Webinar, 10 February 2022, online: Gabriel Feltran (Professor of Sociology, Universidade Federal de São Carlos) Launch and presentation of the book Stolen Cars: A Journey […]

Seminar Cities WIP (Work in Process) Sciences Po, Salle du Conseil, 13 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris, Compulsory registration Urban climate adaptation has become an increasingly urgent challenge – even across the so far relatively unaffected European continent. Moreover, critical climate scholars now underline adaptation’s deeply political nature, arguing that what counts as adaptation to one actor may present maladaptation to another. They moreover propose a transformational approach that incorporates adaptation into a radical project to address the fundamental drivers of climate vulnerability in society. Despite this contentious potential, there appears to be little evidence that climate movements across Europe […]

Cities are back in town seminar Launch and presentation of the book Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo’s Urban Conflict (Gabriel Feltran ed. Wiley/IJURR, 2022) Sciences Po, Webinar, Compulsory registration From the moment a car is stolen, many people start to make money. Where is this money circulated? What effects does it have on the legal and illegal economies? How does it impact social and political dynamics? Based on an ethnographical study spanning five years, Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo’s Urban Conflict tracks the journeys of stolen cars, their owners, and their thieves to examine how the […]