Research events
PhD defense - Tristan Majou
from October 2, 2025 to October 4, 2025
Research events
Published on October 6, 2025– Updated on October 6, 2025
Study Days “Ethical and Political Issues of Heritage-making” in Avignon
Participation of Camila van Diest (postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the PLACES laboratory) in the study days “Ethical and Political Issues of Heritage-making,” held from October 2 to 4, 2025, at the University of Avignon.
The University of Avignon is hosting the study days of Research Committee 44 “Heritage and Legacy” of the International Association of French-speaking Sociologists (AISLF), in partnership with the Norbert Elias Center, the LACTH Laboratory (École Nationale Supérieure et de Paysage de Lille), the Inama Laboratory (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille), and the College of Humanities (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). The program includes book presentations in the presence of the authors, as well as papers by researchers from France and abroad, addressing issues of domination, new heritage economies, and the tensions between ecological urgency and legacy.
In this context, Camila van Diest, a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the PLACES laboratory, will give a presentation on the following topic:
Heritage Mobilizations around Former Sites of Confinement in Chile: Forms of Resistance to the Neoliberal City?
Abstract ; this presentation focuses on heritage mobilizations around former sites of confinement in Chile. It examines, on the one hand, the extent to which these mobilizations represent processes of grassroots social appropriation of the city—whether they take visible forms in public space or manifest through more “infra-political” expressions. On the other hand, it explores how these actions articulate forms of resistance to the neoliberal logics of urban production within a South American context marked by enduring authoritarian legacies. More broadly, the paper invites reflection on the connections between the spatialization of power relations and the (confirmed or uncertain) heritage-making of these buildings, which are most often perceived as devaluing their urban surroundings.
