Member

Dissertation topic
Socio-spatial change and local coexistence: practices and representations of residents of the Quatre-Chemins neighbourhood in Aubervilliers (Greater Paris)

Supervisors
Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier (EHESS, Géographie-Cités) and Beatriz Fernandez (EHESS, Géographie-Cités)

Abstract

My dissertation focuses on the Quatre-Chemins neighbourhood, which straddles the border between Aubervilliers and Pantin, two municipalities on the outskirts of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis département. I examine how residents perceive the social, economic and urban transformations taking place in this neighbourhood, and in the forms of coexistence that these transformations give rise to. Drawing on the socio-residential trajectories of the surveyed residents and their everyday social and spatial practices (shops, social and entertainment venues, community activities, etc.), I aim to reconstruct the representations they hold of the neighbourhood and its evolution. I also explore how they perceive their place within the neighborhood—socially, symbolically, and spatially—particularly in relation to other residents. Finally, I observe the forms of co-presence that these transformations generate, especially within the context of local cafés.

Mixed Methods Approach

• Statistical analysis of National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) data at multiple scales (grid cells, statistical blocks, municipalities)
• Participant observation
• Semi-structured interviews