Inhabit and live in the periphery: socio-spatial fragmentation and ways of life in Paris and Lyon

Abstract

This project aims at deepening and amplifying two fundamental axes of my current post-doctoral research, which started in 2019. Firstly, the objective is to reinforce theoretical reflections around the concepts of socio-spatial fragmentation, periphery, and the question of inhabiting (or living), that is, the fact of being an inhabitant of a territory said or identified as peripherical. Secondly, the two territories that has been chosen in France, in two cities (Paris and Lyon), will allow to amplify and verify the hypothesis of socio-spatial fragmentation apart from the Brazilian and Latin-American realities, and from two different residential spaces: a popular housing complex HLM (Habitation à Loyer Modéré) localized in Seine-Saint-Denis, in the north of the metropolis of Paris, and a neighborhood of middle-class in the municipality of Meyzieu, in the Lyon metropolitan Region. This project of research in France, ideally, will be realized between December 2022 and may 2023, under the supervision of Michel Lussault, a great reference in contemporary French Geography and professor at the Université de Lyon 2, in the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, and researcher in the laboratory of research "Environnement, villes, sociétés" (UMR 5600 CNRS/ University of Lyon) and in the Labex IMU (Laboratory of Excellence Intelligence of Urban Worlds), also linked to the Lyon University. (AU)