Team presentation

Informal control of the city; margins and their role in the creation of urban territories and local forms of power apparatus; governance; the city at night; temporality.

Prison : power apparatus and appropriation of carceral spaces, prison in the city, representations of the prison, inegal access to justice. Production of urban security, police practices, informal practices for security.

Political fabric of urban spaces; Heritages, Identities; Urban Activism, Urban social Movements.

Negotiated partition of territories; the setting up of a socio-spatial order based on the pacification of social ties; sharing of corruption rents coming from illegal activities.

Urban and Social Geography ; heritage and heritage procedures; urban regulations; legitmation and conflict; spatial ideologies; comparison and models; security.

Urban fringes as linked to risk policies; uncertainty in the construction of citadinity ; role of local and informal actors in crisis; crisis management; territories at risk and their links with globalisation.

Public action; Informal transactions; Representations and uses of the law by the Civil Society; Reform of urban network services; Interferences between mafia type criminality and public action

Local Democracy; Clientelism; Urban Governance; Participation; Political Parties; Spatial Justice; Urban Politics.