DISEE – Spatial Dimension of Engagement with Exiles
The DISEE project examines the spatial dimension of discouragement, the making of "long-term volunteers," and the circulation of knowledge between engagement territories.
DISEE – Spatial Dimension of Engagement with Exiles
Dates : 2026-2027
The DISEE project studies how spatial configurations – peripheral relegation of makeshift camps, distance from urban centers, fragmentation of intervention sites – affect the trajectories of voluntary engagement with exiled people. The project focuses more specifically on two borderland field sites (Calais and Briançon).
Mobility and Daytime Population in Geographical Space
Chapter 3 of the volume The Mobile Individual: Everyday Life, Long-Term Temporalities, and Mobile Subjectivities", authored by Hadrien Commenges and Julie Vallée.
Special screening of the award-winning documentary Skid Row Marathon
With Judge Craig Mitchell and the filmmakers, Friday, April 10, 2026 at MK2 Bibliothèque.
Declining red brick factories in Greater Cairo (Egypt)
Unveiling military-led urbanization through its productive peripheries: an article by Corten Pérez-Houis.
Evaluating and Understanding the Geocoding of City Directories of Paris (1787-1914)
How these collections of millions of nominative entries associated with addresses can be turned into a serial dataset. An article cosigned by Julie Gravier.
Obscene Theming as Strategic Commodification of Public Spaces
Analyzing the Material Outcomes of Staging Sexualized Feminine Bodies in Venice Beach, by Alexandre Pires.
Diego Coletto, Guest researcher
Diego Coletto is a Visiting Professor at the EHESS / Géographie-cités.
Karine Duplan, Guest researcher
Karine DUPLAN is a Visiting Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), within the research unit UMR Géographie-cités.
Worlding geographies: A question of languages
Reflections by geographers working in different contexts around the world, including Renaud Le Goix.
