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Le projet DImension Spatiale des Engagements auprès des Exilé·es (DISEE), porté par Antoine Esnos (LATTS, UGE) et Annaelle Piva (Géographie-cités, équipe P.A.R.I.S) est lauréat de l’appel à projets Fonds d’amorçage 2026 du GIS GESTES.

Le projet de recherche DISEE interroge la dimension spatiale du découragement, la fabrication de « bénévoles long-terme » et la circulation des savoirs entre territoires d’engagement.

Depuis 2018, le Groupe d’études sur le travail et la santé au travail (Gestes) accompagne les coopérations interdisciplinaires et inter-établissements entre chercheur·es en vue de structurer des projets de recherche communs.

Photo pour projet DISEE - Antoine Esnos — Grande-Synthe, 2020, Antoine Esnos

We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 255–256 (2026/1–2) of the journal Réseaux, entitled ‘Contemporary Formulations of the Political’, edited by Fabienne Greffet and Franck Rebillard.

Cover of the journal *Réseaux* – Contemporary Approaches to Politics

Job description

Download the job description for research and teaching here.

Application

Applications must be submitted via the Odyssée portal (https://odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr) by 4.00 pm (Paris time) on Friday 3 April 2026.

Further infos

For further information on the research profile, please do not hesitate to contact the laboratory management – Jonathan Rutherford (jonathan.rutherford@enpc.fr) or Elsa Vivant (elsa.vivant@univ-eiffel.fr). For the teaching role, please contact the EUP management (Yoan Miot, yoan.miot@univ-eiffel.fr).

Claire Simonneau, Daniel Florentin and Charles Claron contributed to the ‘Rethinking Soils’ feature in Ingenius, the journal of the École nationale des ponts et chaussées.

‘Knowledge of urban lands for a new direction: living environments, affordable rights, the commons’ by Claire Simonneau
‘Rethinking eco-friendly urban planning. Moving beyond the concept of infrastructure’ by Daniel Florentin
‘Shared Land: Between Private Property and Environmental Commons’ by Charles Claron

➡️ Read the full feature on the Ingenius website

Aerial view of Fontainebleau and the surrounding area – Laurent Mignaux / Terra — Aerial view of Fontainebleau and the surrounding area – Photo: Laurent Mignaux/Terra

Francesca Artioli, Nicolas Maisetti, Ludovic Halbert, and Félix Adisson have just published their book La ville verte au pied du mur (The Green City with its Back to the Wall), released by Presses de Sciences Po on Friday, March 6, 2026. This book traces the tensions between the environmental aspirations of urban governments and their constraints due to austerity measures.

"What do the deployment of dozens of kilometers of bike paths in the city of Bordeaux, the renovation of old housing in the medieval center of Cahors using hemp, and the project to create a 220-hectare "green loop" in the inner suburbs of Paris have in common? Each in its own way, these actions illustrate the greening of urban policies. However, this dynamic is coming up against the deterioration of public finances, putting local officials in a tight spot.

The extensive survey described here reveals the tensions between the environmental aspirations of urban governments and the constraints imposed by austerity. Public action is governed by a territorial regime of budgetary consolidation, which explains the selection process applied to public policies and services, as well as the transformation of local administrations into fundraisers.

Book: "La ville verte au pied du mur" (The Green City with Its Back Against the Wall), published by Presses de Sciences Po

Couverture La ville verte au pied du mur

Gustave Eiffel University is opening a position for LATTS and the Paris School of Urban Planning for a university professor in Section 24 entitled "Urban Planning in the South."

Download the job description for research and teaching here.

Applications must be submitted via the Odyssée portal (https://odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr) by Friday, April 3, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. (Paris time).

For more information on the research profile, please contact the laboratory director, Jonathan Rutherford (jonathan.rutherford@enpc.fr) or Elsa Vivant (elsa.vivant@univ-eiffel.fr). For the teaching profile, you can contact the EUP management (Yoan Miot, yoan.miot@univ-eiffel.fr).

Thesis supervisors: Elsa Vivant and Marian Burchardt

My study is a sociological analysis of the effects of political change on urban development in the city of Chemnitz. I want to examine how the European Capital of Culture program, which is the result of two decades of urban planning led by center-left political parties, is being managed by far-right political forces after the 2024 elections. My research will focus on the strategies of civil society actors involved in the program, municipal technicians working on urban planning strategies, elected officials, and members of the Chemnitz 2025 foundation. My findings will contribute to the understanding of the governmental strategies of rising right-wing parties, such as the AfD and the Pro Chemnitz/Freie Sachsen coalition.

Year of enrollment: 2024

Doctoral school: City, Transport, and Territories – VTT

Thesis supervisor: Corinne Delmas

This thesis project, at the crossroads of sociology, anthropology, and law, proposes to study the emotional bonds between parents and children and what it means to be a family when a child is placed in institutional care. The originality of this project lies in its approach to institutional placement by focusing on emotions. To this end, several research tools and methods of analysis will be used, including an analysis of the legal provisions governing placement and the maintenance of family ties, as well as an ethnographic study, based on observations and interviews, in several facilities managed by Apprentis d'Auteuil. Within this framework, the doctoral student will aim to answer several questions that will inform this research: How do children placed in institutions view their emotional relationship with their parents? How do they identify this affection in relation to their representations of what constitutes a family? How is this parental and emotional bond governed by law since the recent amendments? In what ways does this parental bond manifest itself? Finally, what place is really left for this emotional bond by the institution and social actors?

Year of enrollment: 2023

Doctoral school: Organizations, Markets, Institutions – OMI

Thesis supervisor: Corinne Delmas

This thesis aims to analyze the experiences of students at elite schools in order to understand the influence of gender on the integration of professional models specific to power. Situated halfway between a sociology of elites and gender, it aims to analyze the gender norms conveyed in these educational spaces, their effects on gender relations, and the diversity of forms in which they are appropriated. The comparative approach will shed light on the diversity of factors that favor the appropriation of specific gender relations: between the division of academic knowledge, the influence of gender diversity rates, and positioning in the social space. Ultimately, it will therefore make it possible to question the gendered division of space in grandes écoles, an issue that has recently been raised by the institutions themselves.

Year of enrollment: 2024

Doctoral school: Organizations, Markets, Institutions – OMI

Thesis supervisor: Pascal Ughetto

This thesis aims to understand the organizational and professional foundations and dynamics that underlie student success. Various political, economic, and social issues justify the interest in this topic. In fact, student success has been at the center of public higher education policies promoted by successive governments over the last few decades, especially in areas dedicated to universities. Today's university organizational landscape includes a wide variety of manifestations of a more or less assertive desire to integrate the goal of student success into the organization. These developments are partially known, for example in the form of research and particularly theses that document the arrival of new professionals linked to pedagogy. However, there is little integrated or even systemic discussion of these changes in organization and professions.

Year of enrollment: 2022

Doctoral school: Organizations, Markets, Institutions – OMI

Thesis supervisors: Yoan Miot and Valérie Sala Pala

This thesis aims to examine the urban renewal currently underway in France through the lens of urban political economy approaches. The central idea of this work is to understand urban renewal as part of a process of commercializing neighborhoods that are home to large social housing complexes inherited from the Trente Glorieuses. Large social housing complexes can be considered as spaces that, since their construction, have been dominated by public and semi-public ownership of land and housing stock built using public and semi-public capital, operating in an administered rather than purely commercial manner.

Initially designed for the intermediate segments of the housing market, these housing complexes and the neighborhoods that host them have undergone a process of devaluation that needs to be characterized, with an emphasis on its effects on the positioning of these spaces and rental parks in the residential markets. Through the large-scale demolition and reconstruction policy it introduces, urban renewal puts an end to the absence of major land and real estate changes that has characterized large social housing estates since their creation. It anchors these spaces in a new cycle of urban production, marked by the intervention of private real estate operators, as part of the diversification of the housing supply desired by the National Agency for Urban Renewal, with a view to diversifying the population of these neighborhoods. The thesis will examine all the changes made to the housing supply in large housing estate neighborhoods, focusing both on the restructuring of their social housing stock and the introduction of non-social housing in various forms. In particular, it will document the strategies and practices implemented by public and semi-public actors involved in urban renewal projects to produce such diversification in the housing supply, and in particular to encourage the involvement of private actors in urban development in these areas, which were initially considered unattractive. The concept of urban rents will be useful in understanding the mechanisms put in place by public actors to secure and make profitable private real estate operations. The thesis will therefore focus on how urban renewal contributes to the expansion of commercial modes of urban production, as well as on the social and spatial effects of these processes. Finally, it will explore the links between the mechanisms of population growth and the different modes of structuring real estate markets and designing private real estate operations that are at work in the context of urban renewal. In order to better understand all of these transformations, the thesis seeks to reinsert the urban renewal carried out since 2003 into the history of urban policy and the trajectory of the large housing estates studied, particularly through the prism of their positioning in the real estate markets. This part of the research is based on archival work, which has enabled the collection of documents detailing the conditions under which large housing estates were built and the interventions that their housing stock has benefited from as part of urban policy, as well as information relating to the conduct of urban renewal in these neighborhoods. The investigation into urban renewal carried out as part of the National Urban Renewal Program and the New National Urban Renewal Program is based on interviews with those involved in urban renewal projects, the collection of documents, and quantitative research.

Year of enrollment: 2022

Doctoral school: City, Transport and Territories – VTT

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