Urban Studies" cross-cutting theme & Theme 4 - "Governing the city" reading workshop. 2025-2026 theme "Institutional activism and the making of the city": session 1
ESPACE PHILIPPE SEGUIN31 avenue Jean Dalmas, 13100 Aix-en-Provence
Friday 19 September | 2 - 4.30pm | Espace Philippe Séguin, Room 104 (Aix-en-Provence) / hybrid format
Presentation of the framework and firsts
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Friday 19 September | 2 - 4.30pm | Espace Philippe Séguin, Room 104 (Aix-en-Provence) / hybrid format
Presentation of the framework and initial readings on the concept.
Theme 2025-2026
Institutional activism and the making of the city
The purpose of the reading and research workshop. The aim of this workshop is to revisit the debates and social science texts on the ways in which cities have been governed since the beginning of the twentieth century. It is based on questions relating to the localised analysis of politics and responds to the need, experienced in our own research, to articulate and hold together three dimensions:
Games and rivalries between social groups in urban spaces
Political, partisan and institutional battles to govern the city
Urban public policies: genealogy, instruments, actors and spatial effects
Organisational principles. These workshops take the form of work sessions lasting between 2 and 2.5 hours. Two to four texts (articles or chapters) are circulated two weeks before each workshop, combining theoretical, methodological and empirical dimensions.
Coordination and moderation of the 2025-2026 sessions : Claire Bénit & Alice Daquin
Reading workshop on the 'Urban Studies' cross-cutting theme, in coordination with theme 6 'Norms, deviance, knowledge of government', and with theme 4 'Socio-spatial dynamics and political mobilisation' for certain sessions.
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