– Robert Muchembled, professor emeritus at Paris 13 University: 'When Paris dominated its countryside (1500-1789)'
– Diane Roussel, lecturer (ACP/UPEM): 'The war of boundaries? The opening and closing of Paris in the 16th century' The session will take place at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville on March 29, 2018, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., in Room 12, 2nd floor. Download the program
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Pascal Ughetto, Philippe Askenazy, and Frédéric Garcias, with Gilles Jeannot, Juliette Ducoulombier, Nicolas Klein, Anne-Sophie Maillot, and Jean Tharotte
Report for a public works group, Prevention Department, March 2019.
The research aimed to understand the mechanisms by which corporate occupational health and safety policies produce their effects in terms of accident rates and economic performance, but also encounter limitations that may, to date, remain relatively enigmatic to stakeholders. It was carried out by a multidisciplinary team (economics, ergonomics, management, and sociology) and combined a qualitative approach with quantitative analyses. The group's prevention policy has developed a number of tools that reflect its desire to organize safety: informing and raising awareness of risks, listing them in order to better avoid them, and combating risk-taking. This includes a database of near misses and various awareness-raising and incentive schemes. A network of quality, prevention, and environment (QPE) professionals is an integral part of this policy. The group's prevention policy explicitly relies on the conviction of managers at all levels, considering that without a deep-seated belief in the importance of prevention on the part of managers, a group policy would lack real leverage.
The research revealed several findings and results. As much as it is influenced by individuals, and in particular by the ability of agency managers to take ownership of this policy and demonstrate their commitment to it, the effective deployment of tools is also influenced by economic reasoning. Even with highly committed management, economic considerations can take precedence: this can be seen in the case of an emergency on a construction site or in order to obtain a contract, knowing that the client is not sensitive to prevention. In this company, as in others in the sector, the indicators and management control of the agencies and the group effectively place prevention in juxtaposition with economic considerations. Although they are informed and aware of the tools available for prevention, workers are keen to report situations where this policy seems to give way to more pressing imperatives, such as the speed of completion of a project, catching up on accumulated delays, etc. The decisive factor is that project planning integrates prevention primarily in administrative terms. The schedule, initially based on the study and invoiced costs, focuses on ensuring that the project is completed within the budget. It leaves it largely up to the construction site and its management to adjust to the actual conditions. However, the realities of construction sites are marked by the normal nature of uncertainty, recurring downtime, and emergencies. For the construction site hierarchy, which is directly involved in concrete situations where the tension between economics and prevention must be resolved, there is nothing simple about embodying and implementing prevention measures in a credible manner. QPEs also have a complicated path to find their position in the articulation between a policy whose rules are formulated in the abstract and concrete situations that challenge the compatibility between economics and prevention.
Keywords
: Occupational health and safety. Risk and accident prevention. Public works. Occupational risk management tools.
On Wednesday, March 14
, 2018
, at 8 p.m., the Le Genre Urbain bookstore is hosting a discussion about the book La Ville est à nous ! Aménagement urbain et mobilisations sociales depuis le Moyen Age (The City Belongs to Us! Urban Planning and Social Mobilization Since the Middle Ages), published by Éditions de la Sorbonne.
See the "minute urbaine" dedicated to it by the bookseller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWvl7hRuCPU&feature=share
This book includes a contribution by Martine Drozdz on social mobilization in urban regeneration projects in London.
Edited by Isabelle Backouche, Nicolas Lyon-Caen, Nathalie Montel, Valérie Theis, Loïc Vadelorge, Charlotte Vorms
La ville est à nous ! Aménagement urbain et mobilisations sociales depuis le Moyen-Âge
Editions de la Sorbonne / Histoire contemporaine, 2018, 368 p.
While urban planning as a discipline was established in the 20th century, social movements that challenge urban development have a much longer history. This book focuses on the many forms of collective mobilization that, since the Middle Ages, have targeted the city or, on a different scale, the region and the neighborhood. From medieval Netherlands to present-day Marseille, this book identifies the social relationships that develop when groups see their physical space change, whether they oppose the changes or engage in alternative transformations. By paying attention to the variety of the protagonists' experiences and their repertoires of action, from consultation to taking up arms, this book also seeks to historicize resistance to the modernization efforts of public authorities. In doing so, it sheds light on the issue of participation, the institutionalized aspect of public involvement in urban planning. It strives to reconstruct the concrete contexts and their evolution by addressing three main questions: What is a process of politicization? How do the various individual and collective interests at stake interact? How can we write a social history of major public works?
Thesis supervisor(s)
: Antoine Picon, Nathalie (more…)
Elise Avide will defend her doctoral thesis on Monday, March 12, 2018.
The creation of "everyday" stations: Imaginary and symbolic functions of a new category in Greater Paris
The importance of studying crises and risks in urban areas is, unfortunately, well established, as the recent flooding of the Seine has reminded us, just over eighteen months after the June 2016 floods and only a few months after Hurricane Irma devastated the French West Indies.
All crises—whether related to natural, climatic, chemical, or pathogenic hazards, economic or societal, whether planned or unplanned, of exceptional magnitude or low-key, slow or fast-moving—generate significant scientific, technical, organizational, and political uncertainties. They raise crucial questions not only in terms of preparedness and emergency response, but also in terms of monitoring (sensors or warning centers), modeling tools, anticipating cascading effects, and dealing with the post-crisis phase.
Through a dialogue between researchers and crisis professionals, this day aims to present some of the work of the Euridice research collective and to initiate a reflection beyond its scope, particularly on the role of uncertainty and tools in crisis anticipation and management.
The day's program:
Conference program (front)
Registration required: goo.gl/YVZB4p
Jean-Michel Denis, "Establishing representation based on the working community. In search of the
lost community in the cleaning industry," Sociologie du travail [Online], Vol. 60 – No.
1 | January-March 2018. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/sdt/1748
Nathalie Roseau and Frédéric Pousin are organizing the second session of the seminar of the cross-disciplinary group "Inventing Greater Paris" Labex Futurs Urbains (PEC), on Thursday, February 15, 2018, at the Paris Belleville School of Architecture.
The theme is "Transnational Perspective and History of Metropolises."
François-Mathieu Poupeau
is co-organizing the second session of the seminar "Local Authorities and the Financing of the Energy Transition"
with Carine Staropoli
(PSE, University of Paris 1 and EPPP Chair) and Benoît Boutaud
(European Institute for Energy Research) as part of the work of the Research Group on Local Government in Europe (GRALE).
It will be held on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 (2:00-5:30 p.m.)
at the Jourdan Campus of the Paris School of Economics (48 Bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris).
Jacques Fialaire
(Professor of Public Law at the University of Nantes, co-director of GRALE, head of research on public territorial engineering), Jean Facon
and Charles-Antoine Gautier
(respectively Deputy Director and Head of the Energy Department of the National Federation of Local Authorities and Public Utilities), Thomas Duffes
(Head of the Energy and Heating Network Division at AMORCE) and Yannick Régnier
(Head of Energy and Territorial Projects at CLER Réseau pour la transition énergétique) will discuss the topic: "Financial engineering for local authorities: expertise, resources, and new tools."
Admission is free.
Nathalie Roseau is co-organizer of the first exploratory seminar of the interdisciplinary research project "Archival City. Sharing the past for building the Future," initiated in Paris Est by the ACP and LATTS laboratories and the Ecole des Ponts library.
This seminar will be held on Friday, February 9, in Champs sur Marne, Bienvenue Building, Room B019, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Admission is free, subject to availability.
The discussions will be organized around two round tables bringing together researchers, archivists, and operators. There will be ample time for discussion and debate after each round table so that everyone has a chance to express their views.
François-Mathieu Poupeau has been invited by Enedis' Public Affairs Department to present his latest book on February 7: "Electricity and Local Authorities in France (1880-1980). Another History of Public Service."