The next session of the GOT seminar will take place on Wednesday, December 4, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Bienvenüe)
This session will be devoted to the presentation of Marie Bigorgne's thesis work.
Mathilde Marchand will speak at the round table discussion in Session 4, "The Production of Knowledge in CIFRE Theses," during the conference "Social Sciences and Expertise in Contemporary Political and Social Worlds," to be held at Sciences Po Rennes on Friday, October 4, 2019.
Her presentation will be entitled: "Combining the roles of doctoral student and consultant in CIFRE theses: disqualification or legitimization?"
Nathalie Roseau will speak at the conclusion of the symposium "1919-2019, 100 Years of Civil and Commercial Aviation in France," which will take place on October 4 and 5, 2019, at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the Air and Space Museum.
Her speech will focus on: "Where to land? Aviation culture and the Anthropocene."

The journal Flux is calling for contributions for a special issue:

Networks, Territory, Commons,

coordinated by Bernard de Gouvello and Sylvy Jaglin.

Article proposals of no more than 4,000 characters, accompanied by a brief CV mentioning full contact details and institutional affiliation, should be sent to the following addresses: bernard.de-gouvello@enpc and sylvy.jaglin@enpc.fr before December 2, 2019.

Call for contributions

 

 

Olivier Coutard will speak at this conference from September 18 to 20, 2019, in Manchester.

Program

Collectif Rosa bonheur

(A. Bory, J.-A. Caderon, Y. Miot

, B. Mortain, J. Verdière, C. Vignal)
La Ville vue d'en bas. Travail et production de l'espace populaire

Paris, Editions Amsterdam, 2019, 240 p.

The deindustrialization that has been underway since the 1970s has confined entire sections of the working classes to the margins of the labor market. Kept out of the main commercial circuits, these populations have had to reorganize their work and daily lives in order to meet their basic needs, according to a dynamic that gives urban space a new centrality: for them, access to most of the material and symbolic resources necessary to maintain a dignified existence is closely linked to their territorial roots.
However, the practices associated with this popular centrality are now being challenged. Caught up in the race for metropolitanization, some cities would ultimately like to replace these populations, whom they consider to be "doing nothing," with others from the middle and upper classes, not hesitating to raise the specter of communitarianism and ghettoization. On the contrary, it is a question of understanding what contemporary processes of social fragmentation mean for people who are nothing more and nothing less than workers.

 

 

 

Vincent-Arnaud Chappe, Jean-Michel Denis
, Cécile Guillaume, Sophie Pochic
The end of union discrimination? Legal battles and negotiated practices
Editions du Croquant, 2019, 255p.

The 2008 laws on trade union representation reform and the 2015 laws on social dialogue
introduced new obligations for companies to negotiate
the "reconciliation" of union and professional activities. How can we explain this
sudden attention paid by the public authorities to "union discrimination"? Are we witnessing
a historic break with French-style industrial relations?
Based on six case studies of large companies with contrasting social practices,
this book shows how the negotiation of agreements on union rights and "management
is also a response to the growth in litigation, led
particularly by the CGT since the 1990s, which have contributed to a greater awareness
among trade unionists of their rights.
While these company agreements now provide better protection for the most committed representatives
in the social dialogue process, who sign agreements, they do not radically change
the management practices on the ground, which continue to stigmatize grassroots union members
, especially when they oppose restructuring or denounce the deterioration
working conditions through protest practices.

The flyer

Hélène Ducourant, Ana Perrin-Heredia

The Sociology of Consumption

Armand Colin, 2019, 224p.

What is consumption? How can sociologists approach such a familiar phenomenon? This book provides answers based on a body of empirical research. The various topics covered—definition issues, household budget studies, the role of markets and commercial mechanisms, links between consumption and social group hierarchies, and the relationship between consumption and politics—help us understand how sociology is "shaking up" the notion of consumption and redefining its content and contours.

Introducing numerous rich and stimulating analyses, this book questions the boundaries between certain categories—such as those separating consumption and production or consumption and culture. It also questions certain habits of thought: why is consumption linked to the domestic sphere? Why is it so often considered a feminine activity, and why is it constantly subject to moral judgments?

 

Romain Garcier is visiting the LATTS as part of a CNRS delegation. A lecturer in geography at ENS Lyon, he works on the industrial environment and issues related to materials (technological materials, waste) within territories (Europe, USA). Since 2007, he has been conducting research on materials management in the nuclear industry (waste, uranium, dismantling of nuclear facilities).
Since 2018, three research initiatives have been launched on the metabolism of cities and societies: a project on the management of waste from the decommissioning of nuclear facilities (METROPOLITIN); a Franco-Canadian collaboration on waste (projects "Waste and peripheral territories: managing waste in New Caledonia and Nunavut" and "CETA and the future of waste"); a Franco-Chinese collaboration ("Metapolis: de|constructing Shanghai and Lyon," funded by JORISS and the Urban School of Lyon).
At LATTS, Romain Garcier will be discussing the empirical and theoretical aspects of these projects with the laboratory teams. The aim is to develop a robust theoretical framework for social metabolism and to design a future book.

Nathalie Roseau and Elsa Vivant will participate in a study day organized by the University of Geneva, HES-SO Geneva, and EPFL. This study day, on Friday, September 20, 2019, will focus on the uses and misuses of fiction, storytelling, and non-fiction narration in the production of urban space.

Nathalie Roseau will speak on the theme "The aporias of the city-narrative or the materiality of the imaginary."
Elsa Vivant will speak on the theme "The challenges of using fiction in research writing."

The program

Aude Danieli

will shed light on the Linky phenomenon (design issues, practical applications, and politicization) during the next social sciences seminar organized by the Energy, Technology, and Society Research Group (GRETS). The seminar will take place on Tuesday

, September 17, 2019, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Maison Suger, FMSH, 16-18 rue Suger, Paris 6e).

GRETS 2019-2020 seminar program

Presentation of the GRETS seminar – Aude Danieli – Sept. 2019

On September 11, 2019, François-Mathieu Poupeau will participate in the Franco-Japanese seminar "Local Energy Governance in France and Japan" organized in Lille by Magali Dreyfus, CNRS research fellow, and Aki Suwa, researcher at the United Nations University.

He will present a paper entitled "Local authorities and the regulation of the electricity sector in France. A decentralization under control."

The seminar program

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