End : 20 April 2026 à 16:30
Seminar overview
LATTS is pleased to invite you to the next session of its general seminar, which will take place on Monday 20 April 2026 at 2 pm. The session will focus on the book Vivre au camping. Un mal-logement des classes populaires (Living on a campsite: Substandard housing for the working classes), published by Seuil in 2024.
Gaspard Lion (Sorbonne Paris Nord University) will present his book, followed by a discussion led by Yoan Miot, after which there will be an opportunity for a Q&A session with the audience.
This session will take place in room B015 (Bienvenüe Building) and will be broadcast via videoconference.
Join the Zoom meeting: https://univ-eiffel.zoom.us/j/84740373736
Meeting ID: 847 4037 3736
Password: LATTS2026
Book summary: “Life on the campsite: Substandard housing for the working classes”
The surge in house prices that began in the 2000s has led to increasingly widespread social hardship across France. Neither social housing nor the principle of an enforceable right to housing has provided satisfactory solutions, and the number of people living in substandard accommodation and the homeless has continued to rise. Sociologist Gaspard Lion identifies a new phenomenon reflecting this major social crisis: ‘residential camping’, which has taken hold in France in the same way as American trailer parks. Based on an ethnographic study conducted through immersion in five campsites in the Paris region over four years, this book captures, in all their diversity and intimacy, the daily lives of those who have made camping their home. Thus, this book reveals the social condition of a growing segment of the working classes who live unnoticed on the fringes of major cities, and exposes a hitherto unexplored form of housing and precariousness, revealing the structural changes at work in French society.
Gaspard Lion is a sociologist and senior lecturer at Sorbonne Paris Nord University. His research focuses on the working classes and substandard and unconventional forms of housing.
See the book *Living on the Campsite: Substandard Housing for the Working Classes*
