Transversal themes

This transversality probes the mobilities of individuals, objects, ideas and models. It questions human im∙mobilities from the scale of the body to that of the world, from the angle of their ordinary practices, notably in urban public spaces and places of transport, as well as large-scale mobilities (migratory circulations, tourism, memorial and professional displacements...). An important place is also given to the investigation of subjectivities and the policies they bring into play and their multiple dimensions (symbolic, social, environmental, sensitive, security, health, etc.). The circulation of heritage objects, urban planning models and residential mobility also illustrate the variety of exchanges taken into consideration.

This cross-disciplinary approach critically examines the interplay of actors, modes of action and their effects on space, with the aim of questioning conceptual and discursive devices, with a view to deconstructing categories and models. This approach leads us to examine social, cultural and environmental inequalities, territorial conflicts (tensions, mobilizations, contestations), modes of governance (modes of consultation and regulation, participatory processes) and new forms of expertise.

The methodological approaches encompassed in this approach help to overcome the boundaries between what is readily associated with the humanities (textual corpora, sensitive approaches or those emphasizing subjectivity, cultural and artistic productions, qualitative survey techniques, etc.) and what is assigned to the digital worlds (quantitative methods, indicators and other objectivizing tools, including in a decision-making aid perspective, data visualization, etc.). They also favor the use of tools that are irreducible to this dichotomy (mixed methods, qualitative indicators, mapping, network analysis, etc.).