Ludovic Halbert | 09.07.2013
The paper questions the role of financial capital investors on the production of the urban built environment in France. It first describes the growing diffusion of finance capital in numerous urban objects, before discussing the potential effects on urban production processes. In acknowledging what remains an under-researched topic in economic geography and planning in France, the paper details several proposals for a research agenda that looks into the spatialities and power struggles associated to the growing role of finance [...]
Kraler, Albert, Eleonore Kofman, Martin Kohli et Camille Schmoll (éds.). 2011. Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration, Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, IMISCOE Research Series.
Tatiana Eremenko | 09.07.2013
At a time of debates on immigration and integration and on the role played by the family in these processes, Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration provides new data for understanding the multiple and often complex links between the fields of family and international migration. One of its main contributions is the systematic inclusion in the analyses of contextual elements on the country of destination, in particular the legislation that deals with migrants, so as to improve [...]
Réflexions à partir du cas de l’agglomération lyonnaise.
Deborah Galimberti | 01.07.2013
This article aims at analysing the evolution of appropriation and implementation of the competitiveness-driven policies led by urban governments since the end of the 1970s. In assuming a critical position vis-à-vis the dominant macro analysis of urban policies, it offers a meso approach by focusing on local and national institutional and political conditions. For this purpose, this paper concentrates on the interplay between market actors (companies and interest groups) and local governments. The case of the agglomeration of Lyon [...]
Le cas de la newsletter de Pro Helvetia.
Arthur Zinn-Poget | 01.07.2013
The notion of diversity is one of the most recurrent in discourses on Switzerland. It articulates both national unity and cultural and linguistic diversity. Following Dorothy E. Smith’s work, this article first examines various texts from the newsletter of a Swiss national institution and describes the way these texts reproduce and are based on common knowledge, which considers Switzerland as composed of several linguistic regions. Secondly, the article focuses on the enunciative dimensions of these texts and highlights the [...]
Dominique Lorrain | 24.06.2013
The argument of this text is that the late 20th century was a period of rising market influence and, more specifically, of the integration of urban production into global capitalism. First, big industrial or service firms relocated some of their activities to cities, which influenced their expectations of public policy. Then, big urban corporations whose activities had been largely restricted to their home countries, became international. Finally, this process was amplified by the emergence of the finance and consulting [...]
Charlotte Halpern et Julie Pollard | 17.06.2013
This article uses the notion of urban market actors as an organizing concept so as to systematically examine the rhythms, scope, and direction of urban change. It argues that an analysis based on the detailed characterization of urban market actors may contribute to understanding evolving state-market dynamics in European cities. This analytic choice shifts the usual point of view, empirically exploring the place of the market in urban policy transformations and making it possible to surmount some of the [...]
Retour sur l’œuvre de Dorothy Smith.
Laurence Kaufmann | 17.06.2013
Dorothy Smith’s institutional ethnography aims at mapping textual mediations, both material and immaterial, which coordinate different sites of activity and « remove» individuals from their phenomenological immediacy and the « here and now » reality. In such a framework, the mediations of experience are said to have a negative valence : they bind people to impersonal structures that are beyond their reach. However, mediations do not only have an alienating or reifying function ; they also allow scattered individuals [...]
Hossam Adly et Marie-Paule Thomas | 10.06.2013
Cet article interroge la pluralisation des territoires sous influence urbaine dans l’agglomération transfrontalière de Genève en s’appuyant sur une approche par les modes de vie. Cette approche, développée au Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine de l’EPFL, contribue à la littérature sur les mobilités résidentielles grâce à l’articulation simultanée de trois dimensions : sociale (rencontrer), fonctionnelle (utiliser) et sensible (habiter). Le cas genevois est intéressant de par sa situation transfrontalière et de par l’hétérogénéité qui caractérise ses composantes sociodémographiques et morphologiques. [...]
Partie 2. En dialogue avec Luc Boltanski.
Philippe Gonzalez et Fabienne Malbois | 04.06.2013
Ce papier a pour ambition de discuter L’ethnographie institutionnelle développée par Dorothy E. Smith dans le contexte nord-américain. Dans un premier temps (partie 1), il procède à une présentation de cette sociologie pragmatique, en particulier de sa portée critique, en mettant en évidence ses trois sources principales d’inspiration : la phénoménologie, l’ethnométhodologie et la philosophie sociale de Karl Marx. Dans un deuxième temps (partie 2), l’article fait résonner la sociologie de Smith avec la sociologie pragmatique de Luc Boltanski, [...]
Partie 1. L’ethnographie institutionnelle.
Philippe Gonzalez et Fabienne Malbois | 04.06.2013
Ce papier a pour ambition de discuter L’ethnographie institutionnelle développée par Dorothy E. Smith dans le contexte nord-américain. Dans un premier temps (partie 1), il procède à une présentation de cette sociologie pragmatique, en particulier de sa portée critique, en mettant en évidence ses trois sources principales d’inspiration : la phénoménologie, l’ethnométhodologie et la philosophie sociale de Karl Marx. Dans un deuxième temps (partie 2), l’article fait résonner la sociologie de Smith avec la sociologie pragmatique de Luc Boltanski, [...]