My Social Movements & Space Bibliography (January 2018)
So I did a thesis on social movements and space (in case you didn’t notice that it was kind of a topic on this blog), and as with every research document a good part...
The Cobble And The Frame Blog
The zombie post
So, that was one long break, wasn’t it. Last time I posted on this blog I had just defended my PhD, moved back to Lyon, and was in a University’s cafeteria waiting for a...
Spatialising how?
Maybe the spatial turn doesn’t even have to be a “turn” at all. As the readers will now know, the aim of this blog is equally to present readings and conferences about the crisscrossing...
Ending a thesis
Be careful, there are substantial spoilers ahead from one of my favourite novels, Alain Damasio’s La Horde du Contrevent (Horde of the Counterwind / The Windwalkers in English, unfortunately untranslated yet as far as...
Association Française de Sociologie’s Congress 2017: Anti-migrants mobilisations
I had the luck to be present at the 2017 AFS’s Congress to present some of my indings in French. Four very packed days during which many a great talk was given. I could...
The walking interviews: some remarks on talking and walking
The epitome of a range of approaches in qualitative studies, the ethnographic interview is both a very widely employed method and one that appears to suffer from an increasingly lacking problematisation. Far from the...
Review: Les Lieux de la Colère, Occuper l’espace pour contester, de Madrid à Sanaa
This review was originally published in the bilingual geographical journal Justice Spatial/Spatial Justice. Authorisation was given to me to reproduce it in here in its translated version, for English-speaking audiences. The book in question...
Working between disciplines: some thoughts on interdisciplinarity
Although this is an interdisciplinary blog, the question of interdisciplinarity has hardly been discussed here. This note is the occasion of a short return on interdisciplinarity in practice, moving away from the classical methodological...
Real space, wobbly space
One of the interests and difficulties of working with a concept like “space” is the extent to which its counter-intuitive dimension when compared to the common or everyday perception of it. Engaging in a...
How to prepare a square: Neil Ketchley and the Egyptian revolution
This post is a summary of a public lecture given by Dr Neil Ketchley, from King’s College London’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies, on his forthcoming book Egypt in a Time of Revolution: Contentious...
How having no electricity became a problem (on social problems and the urban)
This note is a summary of a presentation I gave on the 23rd of September 2016 at Cambridge University’s Department of Architecture’s symposium “Spatial Articulations of Collective Identities in the Context of Middle Eastern...
Call for papers, workshop: Spatialising the social sciences in post-colonial contexts (Oxford, 5-6 May 2017)
During the last few weeks with DPhil Candidate Sophie Chamas from the University of Oxford we have been putting together a small call for papers for a workshop both of us felt could be...
Space as a text: James Duncan and the concept of landscape
In this note I make some remarks on the concept of landscape as I have seen it used in geography through the work of one of its most notable English-speaking advocates, James Duncan. Contrarily...
From camp to camps, translocal engagements
This short post is a summary of the presentation “Mobilising place in several places, on translocal systems of interaction and mobilisation in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon” I got to give at the...
Guest: Tripoli (Lebanon), a historic field of dissidence
Foreword by Alex Mahoudeau: This note was sent to me by my friend Sylvain Mercadier. Sylvain wanted to summarise the work he conducted on his Master programme, on spatiality and identity in the Lebanese...
IPS Responsible Research: Research Impact: Technical Brokers and Digital Maps
This is a synthesis of the panel “Research Impact: Technical Brokers and Digital Maps” given by at the IPS Responsible Research Workshop 2016 (other reports are listed here). The panel was composed of Mr...