The call for papers for the 7th forthcoming CIST (International College of Territorial Sciences) conference is open until 11 December 2026.

Étienne Dufour (DOC aménagement, Géographie-cités & LEESU), Léna Meunier (DOC aménagement et urbanisme, Géographie-cités / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Grégoire Ramé (DOC études urbaines, CERI) and Natacha Rollinde (EC géographie et aménagement, Place(s) / Cergy Paris Université) co-chair session C: Beyond Quantification: Tracking Flows to Qualify Transitions in Territorial Metabolisms. Is there a common foundation for qualitative approaches to metabolism? How can quantitative and qualitative approaches be integrated in order to support a critical analysis of territorial transition policies? This session aims to foster dialogue between the diverse approaches contributing to these efforts of characterisation.

Call for papers Session C – Beyond Quantification: Tracking Flows to Qualify Transitions in Territorial Metabolisms

Corten Pérez-Houis, Associate to Géographie-cités, coordonnates with Armelle Choplin a multidisciplinary session witch aims to examine the role of building materials in the ongoing territorial transitions in both the Global North and the Global South, by exploring these materials at the intersection of power relations, environmental change and socio-spatial inequalities.

Call for papers Session E – From Production to Construction: the Building Materials in a Time of Transitions 

Camille Dabestani (ESO Nantes & PEPR VF2+) coordinates with Géraldine Molina (ESO Nantes & IRSTV / CNRS) the session: Examining Climate and Techno-Solutionist Transitions Policies Through the Lens of Residents’ Experiences: Socio-Spatial Inequalities and Strategies in Urban Spaces which proposes to contextualise the analysis of techno-solutionist institutional and political responses to urban climate challenges and their evolution, alongside the experiences and lived realities of urban residents.

Call for papers Session G – Examining Climate and Techno-Solutionist Transitions Policies Through the Lens of Residents’ Experiences: Socio-Spatial Inequalities and Strategies in Urban Spaces 

Camille Dabestani also coordinates with Mégane Fernandez & Thomas Rosenthal (DOC géographie, UP1 / Géographie-cités) the session: “Examining the Coloniality of Transitions. (Neo)colonial Representations and Knowledge at Work in Environmental and Socio-Ecological Local Transition Policies” which seeks to examine the forms and mechanisms of coloniality in transitions at the local level, and the ways in which the scales and imaginaries of the world and the macroregions interlock and project themselves within it.

Call for papers Session N – Examining the Coloniality of Transitions. (Neo)colonial Representations and Knowledge at Work in Environmental and Socio-Ecological Local Transition Policies

The CIST Conference will be held from 6 to 8 December 2027 on the Condorcet campus (Aubervilliers).

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