The journal Réseaux is calling for submissions:
Digital money: practices and challenges
Special issue coordinated by Thomas Beauvisage (Orange Labs – SENSE) and Hélène Ducourant (Université Gustave Eiffel – LATTS)
Réseaux journal Call for submissions Digital money
Risk management. Origins, successes, and limitations of risk management
Jean-Pierre Galland
L'Harmattan, 2022, 194 p.
For several decades now, in industrialized countries, we have been "managing" various risks, sometimes with the help of more or less specialized risk managers. There is now even an international standard that lists and reports on the conditions for good risk management, for all risks. The undeniable success of this concept is somewhat surprising, especially when we remember its dual origins: on the one hand, within public authorities responsible for ensuring the physical safety of their respective citizens, and on the other, in large North American private companies seeking to reduce the financial burdens imposed by their insurers. How did these two initial and very different forms of risk management become sufficiently hybridized to make it conceivable to manage all conceivable risks, whatever their nature, at the same time?
Coordinated by Nathalie Roseau
, Frédéric Pousin,
and Yoko Mizuma
, the 2022 research seminar of the Transversal Group "Inventing Greater Paris" continues its reflections on the intertwined histories of metropolises, turning this year to Asia from a transnational perspective. The first study day in the spring will be devoted to the exchange of expertise between France and China (particularly Shanghai). The second, in the fall, will focus on the issue of public parks in metropolitan areas, comparing Greater Paris and Greater Tokyo. The group is also continuing its work in close collaboration with other Transversal groups within Labex. As part of the "Open City, Closed City" cycle initiated by the "Uses of History and Urban Futures" group, the March seminar, organized at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, will address the issue of the traces and legacies left over time by debates around urban and metropolitan boundaries. Also involving the "Urban Production and Markets" group, the discussion on growth coalitions in metropolitan planning will continue, focusing on the examples of Disney in Val d'Europe and Anaheim in California.
The seminar venues (on-site and/or online) will be specified at a later date. A publication of the oral presentations will be posted on the website www.inventerlegrandparis.fr
. Section: IGP Seminar.
Contacts
Yoko Mizuma (yoko.mizuma@enpc.fr
); Frédéric Pousin (frederic.pousin@wanadoo.fr
); Nathalie Roseau (nathalie.roseau@enpc.fr)
Seminar program of the Inventing Greater Paris 2022 Cross-Functional Group
Private crusades and public problems. The sociological legacy of Joseph Gusfield
Edited by Stève Bernardin
Presses universitaires de Rennes, 278 p. (Coll. Res publica)
What is a symbolic crusade? How can a private issue become a public, visible, and shared problem? To understand this, this book draws on the seminal work of Joseph Gusfield. It brings together contributions from some twenty researchers from different fields of social science. The authors reveal new uses for the North American sociologist's conceptual tools in areas as diverse as academic failure, air pollution, and the fight against drugs. They testify to the prevalence of dramatization processes (between the desire to raise awareness and the assertion of authority), forms of appropriation of public issues (permanent and potentially exclusive), and possibilities for distancing oneself from dominant discourses (in the sense of resistance or accommodation to stated priorities). Major areas of research are thus emerging, based on Joseph Gusfield's original proposals. They reveal a dynamic, pluralistic, and stimulating legacy, accessible to researchers and citizens alike who reject simplistic explanations of the issues that shape our daily lives.
Alicia Albert, Pascal Ughetto, 2022
Connected objects in occupational health: waiting for activity…
Working Paper, No. 22-21, January 2022
URL: https://hal-enpc.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03530233
From design to operation? Integrating energy system operational concerns into urban project design
Faced with negative feedback during the operation of sustainable urban projects, urban planners are increasingly integrating energy system operational concerns into their designs. The aim of this research is to examine the effects of this integration of operational issues on the urban design process. Based on a case study, we show that the integration of operational concerns leads to changes in technical choices, energy objectives, and the social organization of design. We are witnessing a bifurcation of technical choices, following double-loop learning by stakeholders, where objectives must be reviewed during the design process in order to move forward. Indeed, thinking in terms of operation leads to different design choices that prioritize quality of use and services provided. In terms of design organization, the integration of operational concerns does not call into question the hierarchical and linear organization of stakeholders' activities. However, it does facilitate the emergence of new stakeholders such as energy and multi-service system operators. More broadly, research shows that feedback from more than 15 years of experience in the operation of sustainable neighborhoods contributes to an interprofessional learning process, the results of which produce new technical references or projects and contribute to the renewal of professional cultures. In this way, the design activity is transformed. The analysis emphasizes the importance of technical objects in consolidating the learning of stakeholders, objects around which lessons and feedback crystallize.
Composition of the jury
Véronique BIAU, Chief Architect-Urban Planner of the State, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-La Villette (Rapporteur)
Gilles DEBIZET, Senior Lecturer, University of Grenoble-Alpes (Rapporteur)
Joëlle FOREST, Senior Lecturer, National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (Examiner)
Caroline GALLEZ, Director of Research, Gustave Eiffel University (Examiner)
Laurent MICHELIN, Director of Innovation, Bouygues Immobilier (Guest Member)
Taoufik SOUAMI, Professor, Paris-Est University (Thesis Supervisor)
Alexandre Coulondre's work was highlighted in an article entitled "Moving house: where do French people plan to move to?" published in the December 2021 issue of the French Rural Network magazine.
The RUE axis is organizing an inter-axis RUE/PMMU seminar on Monday, January 17, 2022, at 10:00 a.m.
Elsa Vivant will present her work on the spatial dimensions of the opioid crisis in Boston.
Jean-Marc Offner, CEO of a-urba (Bordeaux Aquitaine urban planning agency) since 2009, will present his book:
To solve mobility problems: public transport!
To combat the housing crisis: home ownership for all!
We must fight urban sprawl!
There can be no community spirit without residential diversity!
Proximity rebuilds social and political ties!
To better manage territories, let's change their boundaries!
Architecture makes the city!
These outdated beliefs belong to the France of the Trente Glorieuses, which still saw itself as rural and opposed the city to the countryside. They ignore the realities of an urban, mobile, connected 21st century and are unsuited to environmental requirements. Yet, elevated to dogma, they continue to govern cities and territories.
Jean-Marc Offner deconstructs them one by one to enable us to think about the city of tomorrow.
Program for the session on January 17
,
Hélène Ducourant, Timothée Narring, 2022
Ethnography of a Brazilian debt fair
Working Paper, No. 22-20, January 2022
URL: https://hal-enpc.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03514847
Emmanuelle Guillou will defend her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Sylvy Jaglin on Friday, January 14, 2022 (room A219, Bienvenüe building).
A Zoom link will also be available:
https://univ-eiffel.zoom.us/j/87235239446
Meeting ID: 872 3523 9446
Password: 7dCniX94
On-grid – Off-grid: emerging electrical configurations in areas of diffuse urbanization (Senegal and Tanzania)
Thesis in urban planning and development, supervised by Sylvy Jaglin, Techniques Territoires Sociétés Laboratory (University of Paris-Est)
The 1990s and 2000s were marked, in many sub-Saharan African countries, by the adoption of neoliberal policies reputed to be conducive to development goals (MDGs). Senegal and Tanzania are no exception. In the electricity sector, low electrification rates on the one hand and the inability of public operators to rapidly expand the conventional network on the other led their governments to undertake institutional reforms characterized by the liberalization of the sector and the creation of agencies dedicated to rural electrification. Initially the prerogative of large national or international operators, rural electrification is now open to smaller private operators. Coupled with a reduction in administrative constraints and new sources of financing, liberalization is benefiting decentralized solutions (mini-grids and solar kits in particular).
The result in both countries is a diversification of electricity supply modes based on multiple devices, actors, resources, and modes of governance, which coexist locally and are analyzed in the research as co-production arrangements. Through a multi-scale comparative study conducted in Senegal and Tanzania in areas of diffuse urbanization, the thesis proposes a conceptual framework and methodology for rethinking the nature and conditions of the provision of an essential service based on the heterogeneous arrangements observed. It thus draws on the notion of local supply configurations to take an open-minded approach to all the electrification solutions available, understand their interdependencies, and examine the conditions for possible regulation of the various modes of electricity supply at this scale.
By combining a situated sociotechnical approach to electricity access supply configurations with a socioeconomic approach to local electricity markets, the thesis proposes a conceptualization of the emerging geographies of electricity supply in territories marked by rapid and diffuse urbanization. On the one hand, it demonstrates that neoliberal electrification policies have led to a diversification of electricity supply, better adapted to the plurality of demand, an average increase in coverage and access rates in these areas, and at least a partial improvement in the quality of services provided as a result of market competition. On the other hand, it highlights the limitations of these policies and their market-based logic, which have led to increased socio-spatial inequalities at all levels and the exclusion of the poorest from any form of access to electricity. The analysis of these pitfalls highlights the need for regulatory mechanisms, the premises of which are still fragile and disparate. By questioning who gets what service and where, it finally outlines avenues for reflection on what the transition to a future essential (public) electricity service could look like in these changing urban environments.
Keywords: Local supply configurations; electrical hybridizations; inequalities of access; co-production; service regulation; Senegal; Tanzania