Recent publications
4 December 2024
Beatriz Botero Arcila has published “How the Law Makes Smart Cities Unaccountable, and How to Start Making it Better: Lessons from Sidewalk Toronto” in Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, on September 1, 2024.
4 December 2024
A new article written by Petra Samaha, titled “Searching for the public in Lebanon and Palestine, between land and its ownership. Part 6: Whose land? And to which State?”, was published on November 19, 2024 in Legal Agenda, Beirut (in Arabic).
4 December 2024
Agnès Bastin, Magali Castex et Daniel Florentin ont publié “Les défis pratiques et épistémologiques d’une écologisation de l’aménagement” dans la revue Géographie, économie, société, 2024/2-3, Vol. 26.
4 December 2024
Thomas Lacroix a publié un nouveau livre intitulé “L’État sans frontières. Comment les migrations transforment l’État“, aux Editions ENS, Collection Sociétés, Espaces, Temps, et préfacé par Catherine Wihtol de Wenden.
4 December 2024
A new article written by Eric Verdeil, titled “Martigues et l’imagination de l’anthropocène”, was published on September 26, 2024 in Métropolitiques.
News
14 October 2024
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-matins/beyrouth-sous-les-bombes-la-ville-est-elle-devenue-insoutenable-patrick-boucheron-9751442
3 October 2024
We share a call for applications of the Urban School. Open until October 11 at noon (Paris time).
16 July 2024
Details CNRS Humanities and Social Sciences is inviting applications for a two-year post-doctoral position as part of its support for research into the habitability of the planet.The theme of this call is “Urban energy economies in the Middle East: social justice and energy transition”. The position is based at UMR CERI (France) and involves collaboration with UMIFRE IFPO (based in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestinian Territories). The energy and ecological transition in Middle Eastern countries has specific characteristics and configurations, different from those in Europe or North America, but also from those in the Persian Gulf, which are characterised by […]
6 June 2024
Florence Faucher, Director of the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) of Sciences Po, and Tommaso Vitale, Dean of the Urban School of Sciences Po, share an interview to discuss the opportunities and challenges of hosting the next AESOP Congress at Sciences Po, which will take place from July 8 to 12 under the theme “GAME CHANGER? Planning for Just and Sustainable Urban Regions” .
6 June 2024
Organised by Asseel Al-Ragam, Hélène Thiollet, Eric Verdeil, and Chantal Verdeil, this conference revisits historical processes of knowledge production, immigration, and cultural exchange in colonial and post-colonial geographies of the Gulf. It also uncovers histories of community, migration, language/dialect, and hinterland denials in both the making of Gulf cities and the production of their histories. The aim is to foster novel investigations that question the positionality of different actors, that humanise the landscape, and that deconstruct persistent myths, material and immaterial structures, spaces and systems that limit a critical reading on the Gulf. For details and registration, click here.