Inhabit and live in the periphery: socio-spatial fragmentation and ways of life in Paris and Lyon

• Grant number: 22/10883-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: January 01, 2023
• End date: August 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito
• Grantee: Jean Adrien José Legroux Morant
• Supervisor: Michel Lussault
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École Normale Supérieure, Lyon (ENS), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 19/04664-7 - Space practices and everyday life: paradigms for the reflection on the spatial dimension of social processes, BP.PD

Abstract

This project aims at deepening and amplifying two fundamental axes of my current post-doctoral research, which started in 2019. Firstly, the objective is to reinforce theoretical reflections around the concepts of socio-spatial fragmentation, periphery, and the question of inhabiting (or living), that is, the fact of being an inhabitant of a territory said or identified as peripherical. Secondly, the two territories that has been chosen in France, in two cities (Paris and Lyon), will allow to amplify and verify the hypothesis of socio-spatial fragmentation apart from the Brazilian and Latin-American realities, and from two different residential spaces: a popular housing complex HLM (Habitation à Loyer Modéré) localized in Seine-Saint-Denis, in the north of the metropolis of Paris, and a neighborhood of middle-class in the municipality of Meyzieu, in the Lyon metropolitan Region. This project of research in France, ideally, will be realized between December 2022 and may 2023, under the supervision of Michel Lussault, a great reference in contemporary French Geography and professor at the Université de Lyon 2, in the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, and researcher in the laboratory of research "Environnement, villes, sociétés" (UMR 5600 CNRS/ University of Lyon) and in the Labex IMU (Laboratory of Excellence Intelligence of Urban Worlds), also linked to the Lyon University. (AU)