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Clarence HATTON-PROULX
Position
Postdoctoral researcher
Institution
Géographie-cités
Team
CRIA
E-mail
clarencehatton ( at ) gmail.com
My research studies the past and present of energy transitions, infrastructure, and environments in urban contexts.
I hold a joint PhD in urban studies from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique and in history from Sorbonne Université. My thesis looked at the social and material consequences of urban energy transitions in Montréal between 1945 and 1980. It studied topics like wood and coal yards, gas stations, oil refineries, energy demand forecasts, and urban heating. My thesis received the Prix Jean-Pierre Collin for best doctoral thesis in urban studies and the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société prize for best doctoral thesis.
My postdoctoral work, financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds de recherche du Québec société et culture, compares waste incineration projects between Montréal and Paris. I am also currently working on the contamination and deindustrialization of urban energy landscapes.
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Education
2023 PhD in urban studies – Institut national de la recherche scientifique, « Une histoire sociale et matérielle des transitions énergétiques urbaines. Le cas de Montréal, 1945-1980 » ; joint PhD with Sorbonne Université
2023 PhD in social and economic history, specialization in history of science and technology – Sorbonne Université, « Une histoire sociale et matérielle des transitions énergétiques urbaines. Le cas de Montréal, 1945-1980 » ; joint PhD with INS
2019 M.A. in science and technology studies, York University
2018 B.A. in communications and urban studies, Université du Québec à Montréal
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Publications
Journal articles
Hatton-Proulx, C. (2024). The role of forecasts in planning for energy infrastructure. A historical look at past futures in postwar Quebec, Enterprise and Society, 1-44.
Mercure Jolette, F., Hatton-Proulx, C., and Van Neste, S. L. (2024). Mobilizing Suburban Stereotypes: The Case of Ville d’Anjou (1956-1973), Journal of Urban History, 50(1), 98-122.
Hatton-Proulx, C. (2022). Travailleuses anonymes et modernité énergétique. L’industrie électrique et gazière et l’économie domestique à Montréal, 1904-1959, Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, 75(3), 35-68.
*Won the Prix de publication en français Louise-Dandurand (FRQSC)
Hatton-Proulx, C. (2020). « Sous vos pas, un parfait agencement » : la transformation du paysage énergétique urbain de Montréal, 1890-1950, Flux, 121(3), 4-28.
Hatton-Proulx, C. (2020). Creating Supply, Creating Demand: Energy in Montréal from the First World War to the Great Depression, Journal of Energy History / Revue d’histoire de l’énergie, 5, 1-24.