L’informalité politique en ville. 8 chercheurs et 9 villes face aux modes de gouvernement urbain

• Main Authors: Collectif Inverses, Marie Morelle, Sébastien Jacquot, Jérôme Tadié, Nicolas Bautès, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Fabrizio Maccaglia, Jean Rivelois, Alexis Sierra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes 2016-08-01
• Series: L'Espace Politique
• Subjects: political informality; arrangement; urban space; power; collective research approach
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/3806
• ISSN: 1958-5500

In 2010, a collective of 8 geographers and sociologists launched the research program “Informality, Power and the Other Side of Urban Spaces - Inverses”. This text is a description of the process and different stages followed by the research group, as well as the approaches used to develop a shared analytical framework, and the positioning of its thesis and findings in relation to contemporary questions on urban power. It furthermore presents how political informality has emerged as a key notion to understanding modes of urban government, taking into account the different forms of arrangement in presence in the cities studied.