Heads:

Nadine CATTAN – Géographie-cités (UMR 8504)
Laurent FARET – CESSMA : Centre d’Etudes en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains, Américains et Asiatiques (UMR 245)
Camille SCHMOLL – Géographie-cités (UMR 8504)

Presentation:

Mobility is one of the major challenges of contemporary societies. The “Mobilities and spatialities” Work-Package (WP) is part of the Mobility Turn paradigm: mobility cannot be reduced to travel alone but incorporates what precedes and flows from it, i.e. all the potential linked to intentionality, strategies and trade-offs, as well as the accompanying norms and values. The interdisciplinary work of the members of the WP is structured around three objectives:

1. When mobility configures new spatialities. To think of relational space by approaching mobility as the founding category of space.

2. Mobility as a vector for the recomposition of socio-spatial inequalities. Between injunctions and norms, what value is assigned to mobility in contemporary societies?

3. At the crossroads of the human and the non-human. Understand human mobility in its interactions with the mobility of objects, information and emotions.

Several thematic axes articulating a reflection on the scales, temporalities and historicality of practices provide the key focus:

• Mobility from a gender perspective. Questioning hybridity as a metaphor for a reading of spaces and societies;
• “Transit” migrations in the urban fabric. Towards an analytical framework on the conditions of being in the city and on the forms of urbanity production by transit populations;
• Tourist mobility and heritage development. How does heritage, far from being based in rooted of territories, as a bastion against traffic, become the very product of mobility?
• Places of mobility and immobility: what right do we have to mobility? What governance of mobility exists in the articulation of individual and collective approaches?

Keywords:

Mobilities, territory, space, immobility, standards, gender, injunction, affect, emotions, links, transit, circulation, borders, networks, places.

Publications:

BELTON CHEVALLIER L., MOTTE-BAUMVOL B., FOL S., JOUFFE Y., (2018), “Coping with the costs of car dependency : A system of expedients used by low-income households on the outskirts of Dijon and Paris”, Transport Policy, Vol. 65, pp. 79-88.

BERROIR S., DELAGE M., FLEURY A., FOL S., GUÉROIS M., MAULAT J., RAAD L., VALLÉE J., (2017), “Mobilité au quotidien et ancrage local dans les espaces périurbains”, Annales de Géographie, N° 713, pp. 31-55.

BERTHOMIÈRE W., MAUREL M., RICHARD Y., 2015, “Intégration des immigrés et associations en France. Un essai d’approche croisée par l’économie et la géographie”, Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography [En ligne], Espace, Société, Territoire, document 749.

CATTAN N., VANOLO A., 2016. The cruise: visual representations of mobility and gendered images of pleasure. Tourist studies, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468797616682615

BERROIR S., CATTAN N., DOBRUSZKES F., GUÉROIS M., PAULUS F., VACCHIANI-MARCUZZO C., 2017. Les systèmes urbains français. Une approche relationnelle, Cybergeo. https://cybergeo.revues.org/27945

BOULOC C., CATTAN N., FRÉTIGNY J.B., 2019. Quand les marges mobiles construisent des centralités à éclipse. Migrants et touristes à Paris. In dir. X. Bernier, Mobilités et marginalités, PUR