Publications récentes
4 octobre 2024
A new article titled « Cultivating Urban Agriculture Policies: Local Government Entrepreneurs’ Strategies in Three Brazilian Cities » by Marcela Alonso Ferreira (et al.), was published in open access in Urban Planning, vol. 9, 2024. Abstract: Urban agriculture (UA) is increasingly recognized in policy and academic discussions for its potential to promote sustainable food systems and reduce food insecurity. Due to their proximity to citizens, local governments are well-positioned to advance these initiatives. However, the factors that drive governments in densely populated cities to develop UA policies remain relatively understudied, especially in the Global South. To address this gap, we employ a comparative case study […]
5 juillet 2024
A new policy brief by Silvia Cafora, Jacopo Lareno Faccini, and Tommaso Vitale titled « Policies to Decommodify and Revive the Right to Housing in Italy » was published on the page of Fondazione Feltrinelli. Abstract: While the Charter of Fundamental European Rights declares that housing is a fundamental good for leading a dignified life (2002, Art. 34.3), in Italy, the right to housing is not enshrined in the Constitution. The only normative reference is the Constitution’s Article 47, co. 2, which attributes to the Republic the task of favouring the access of popular savings to property. In Italy, the housing culture is based on the […]
20 juin 2024
A new review of Tine Gade’s 2022 book « Sunni City. Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese Revolution », (Cambridge University Press), by Petra Samaha was published in Mondes Arabes journal 2024, 5(1), pages 203–209.
20 juin 2024
A new article titled « Autonomie des formes urbaines et périls de l’évolutionnisme » by Côme Salvaire was published in Varia, vol. 34, 2024.
6 juin 2024
Une discussion de l’ouvrage de Tom Goodfellow intitulé Politics and the Urban Frontier (2022) par Côme Salvaire, Graeme Young et l’auteur, à retrouver dans la revue Urban Studies.
Actualités
3 octobre 2024
We share a call for applications of the Urban School. Open until October 11 at noon (Paris time).
16 juillet 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 […]
8 juillet 2024
11-12 December 2024 | Sciences Po Paris Campus First annual event of the project « Nature in the City »: Nature-Based Strategies for Urban Climate Adaptation: Insights from Cities in the Global South and North
20 juin 2024
Episode description: What types of coalitions can deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives? And how can we avoid reproducing unjust distributions of risk and responsibility in urban sustainability efforts? In this episode, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Arve Hansen, and Manisha Anantharaman discuss these questions by engaging with Anantharaman’s new book Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability (MIT Press, 2024), a unique ethnographic exploration that links middle-class, sustainable consumption with the environmental labour of the working poor to offer a relational analysis of urban sustainability politics and practice. The focus is on Bangalore in India, but the arguments and findings have […]
6 juin 2024
Florence Faucher, Directrice du Centre d’Etudes Européennes et de Politique Comparée (CEE) de Sciences Po, et Tommaso Vitale, Doyen de l’Ecole urbaine de Sciences Po, discutent dans un entretien croisé des opportunités et enjeux du prochain congrès AESOP qui aura lieu du 8 au 12 juillet à Sciences Po sur le thème « GAME CHANGER? Planning for Just and Sustainable Urban Regions » .