2021  Mobilities
© ANR DITES

Dates: 2022 – 2024

Intralaboratory Program Leader: Nadine Cattan

Laboratory members involved in the program: Joséphin Béraud, Ludovic Challonge, Eric Denis, Jean Makhlouta, Olivier Telle, Céline Vacchiani-Marcuzzo

Team: PARIS

Transversal subject concerned: Mobilities and territories: towards a relational approach to space

Partner Organisations: Université Libanaise, Faculté d’Architecture ; UMR AUSSER

Extralaboratory Program leaders: Nada Chbat, Stéphanie Dadour

Funding: ANR Action-Liban

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Description: DITES project’s objective is to reassess and propose methods of cooperation between the territorial levels in order to define modes of governance that would allow us to anticipate and adapt to different crises.

In scientific works as well as in political arrangements, resilience has become an inescapable qualifier to describe the resistance capacity of the Lebanese to the different crises that have impacted Lebanon. Few studies have focused on activating the territorial dimension of these crises, particularly the health crisis. However, it is in the multi-scalar territorial deployments that the socio-economic dynamics are played out and that the implementation of an effective and sustainable risk management system is required.

DITES project takes a systemic approach to the question of resilience, to grasp all levels of governance, from the State to citizens. Its objective is to reassess and propose methods of cooperation between the territorial levels in order to define modes of governance that would allow us to anticipate and adapt to different crises. Governance is understood here as the roles and responsibilities of actors at different levels of action, state or non-state.
DITES thus aims to grasp the complex partnerships of state governance with that of ordinary practices, between public norms and their accommodation with other actors for greater efficiency and legitimacy in everyday life.

The first step is to highlight the effective relationships between territories through the prism of mobility, which is an indirect indicator of efficient socio-territorial links and solidarity between populations and of resilient networks for accessing resources (food, healthcare, etc.). The second step is to identify the scales of sub-national cooperation that exist or that have emerged during the crises, whether they are the product of local institutions and elected officials or of private and informal governance actors involving the participation of populations, in order to provide relevant information on the systems of governance between localities. These data will make it possible to draw up a map of territorial systems, i.e., the effective networks of mobilities and links between the territories that emerged or persisted during the crisis. These organizations of territories into systems of relationships will be crossed with data on contamination at a fine scale of localities as well as with local containment measures in order to concretely grasp both the impact of measures taken at the national level and the differentiated adherence of populations according to the regions and localities concerned. A detailed analysis of these processes in the four field of study allows us to support the findings and recommendations locally.

The territorial systems that the DITES project proposes to identify constitute an essential basis for reflection in order to propose territorial organization schemes in their articulations and no longer in an isolated manner in order to re-evaluate the existing multiscalar governance systems and to make them more inclusive through cooperation and networking.