Mélanie Rateau traveled to Benin for a two-month pre-field mission as part of her first year of doctoral studies on the composite electricity supply system and inequalities in access to energy services in urban areas. She met with numerous stakeholders involved in the electricity sector and conducted field observations. Attached is a series of photographs providing an overview of the diversity of socio-technical devices enabling access to electricity services of varying quality in Cotonou and Abomey-Calavi.
Photo 1: Hierarchy of the electrical network and spider webs
Photo 2: Peri-urban spider webs
Photo 3: Sale of photovoltaic panels of all sizes
Photo 4: Generator
Nathalie Roseau will give the closing lecture, entitled "Les territoires de l'air, une culture de la modernité
" (The territories of the air, a culture of modernity
) at the conference: Aviation: The impact on time and space,
which will take place from September 6 to 8 on the island of Santa Maria in the Azores. This conference is organized by the LPAZ forum, the University of the Azores, and the Portuguese Association of French Studies.
Link: http://forumlpaz.wixsite.com/2017
Jean-Michel Denis and Robin Foot participated in the ISA RC conference in Lisbon (Portugal)
Issue 146 of Travail et Emploi
(April-June 2016) is now online, featuring a report coordinated by Thomas Amossé and Jean-Michel Denis, "Trade union discrimination in question: an international overview,"
and three book reviews.
This issue is available in electronic format on Cairn at https://www.cairn.info/revue-travail-et-emploi-2016-2.htm
The previous issue, No. 145, focuses on the situation in France: http://www.cairn.info/revue-travail-et-emploi-2016-1.htm
Martine Drozdz traveled to Warsaw to attend the EURA (European Urban Research Association) Conference
Tania Apedo attended this conference on June 15-18, 2017.
Jean-Michel Denis traveled to Amiens from July 3 to 6 for the 7th Congress of the French Sociological Association.
Article written by Jean-Pierre Lévy and Fateh Belaïd
The determinants of domestic energy consumption in France: Energy modes, habitat, households, and life cycles, in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Chapter written by Isabelle Hajek and Jean-Pierre Levy
Urban ecology
in
Rthinking nature. Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries
edited by Aurélie Choné, Isabelle Hajek, Philippe HammanRoutledge, 2017, 268 p.
Antoine Guironnet is the winner of the 2017 APERAU (Association for the Promotion of Education and Research in Planning and Urban Development) Award for the best article on urban planning.
"Une financiarisation si discrète ? La circulation des standards de la filière d'investissement en immobilier tertiaire dans les politiques de développement urbain du Grand Lyon" (Such discreet financialization? The circulation of standards in the commercial real estate investment sector in Greater Lyon's urban development policies), published in Métropoles, 19/2016, posted online on December 1, 2016.
Jury comment:
By introducing the concept of financialization into the analysis of urban production, this dense but impeccably clear article takes a fresh look at the relationship between the public and private spheres. It successfully contributes to the unveiling of processes that have long remained invisible, despite their active role in reshaping the power relations that govern the production of metropolitan spaces. The fact that it was written by a doctoral student makes it even more promising.
François Mathieu-Poupeau
Analyzing Multi-Level Governance
PUG, 2017, 262 p. (more…)
Thomas Jammet will give a lecture on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). It is based on an article in issue 202-203 of the journal Réseaux, which focuses on "The Internet of the Far Right."