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Paris

Call for papers - Geography

Sobriété et transitions urbaines

Journée d'études de la commission Ville et Métropolisation du CNFG

Les pouvoirs publics, mais aussi les habitants qui engagent la transition de leur territoire, cherchent à infléchir un modèle de développement historiquement fondé sur l’expansion et l’attractivité, au profit de trajectoires plus diversifiées, alternatives, parfois qualifiées d’altermétropolitaines. Cette « nouvelle fabrique de la ville » a plusieurs traductions spatiales : Responsive City, ville durable, ville du quart d’heure, ville dense ou encore ville productive. Dans ce contexte, la sobriété tend à s’imposer comme un nouveau paradigme de l’aménagement, fondé sur une production urbaine modérée, le renouvellement des espaces artificialisés existants, la recherche de densité et, plus largement, sur un urbanisme circulaire.

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Yaoundé

Call for papers - Urban studies

Toponymie et mobilité urbaine

Appréhender la ville au prisme de ses adressages

Cette journée scientifique se propose d’explorer les rapports étroits entre la toponymie et la mobilité urbaine particulièrement en Afrique où l’on observe une concurrence entre noms officiels et locaux pour les mêmes lieux. Comment cette concurrence impacte la mobilité urbaine et pour quels effets ? Comment cette situation est perçue par les autorités, les citadins et les visiteurs ? Voilà la problématique, non exhaustive, qui encadre les communications attendues au cours de cette journée scientifique.

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Call for papers - Geography

Rethinking the Geography of Risk: Theories, Practices, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

“Geographies of the Anthropocene” book series (Vol. 9, no. 1, 2026).

This volume of Geographies of the Anthropocene aims to explore and redefine the Geography of Risk, a field that investigates the relationships between natural hazards, environmental transformations, and social vulnerability. By integrating approaches from physical and human geography, the book will address how societies perceive, represent, and manage risks across diverse territorial, temporal, and cultural contexts. Contributions are invited from a wide range of disciplines — geography, environmental studies, sociology, urban and regional planning, economics, political science, psychology, and technology studies — to foster an interdisciplinary reflection on the theoretical, methodological, and practical dimensions of risk.

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Lille

Conference, symposium - Urban studies

Mobilités quotidiennes des personnes vieillissantes

Ce colloque ouvre un espace d’échanges sur les mobilités quotidiennes des personnes vieillissantes, en croisant les propositions de communication retenues avec les résultats d'une enquête mixte et longitudinale menée à Lille entre 2020 et 2024, par le Cerema et la Métropole de Lille.

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2026

Call for papers - Geography

Urban Metamorphoses: Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Arab Cities

Revue « EchoGéo »

Since the beginning of the 20^th century, the Arab world has undergone rapid urbanization. Today, global cities in the region such as Doha and Dubai have themselves become exporters of new urban paradigms to the wider Arab world and beyond. This issue of EchoGéo aims to explore these urban metamorphoses through a multidisciplinary and comparative approach, connecting dynamics across North Africa and the Middle East, and to bridge three elements: understanding the forces that deeply transform Arab cities, examining how they unfold in concrete places, and giving full attention to the resistances, detours, and inventions that redraw urban life.

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El Jem

Call for papers - Urban studies

Patrimoine, tourisme durable et développement local

Rencontre El Jem 2026

La quatrième édition de Rencontre El Jem organise un colloque international consacré aux liens entre patrimoine, tourisme durable et développement local. L’événement vise à interroger les limites du modèle touristique actuel centré sur le tourisme de masse et à explorer des approches alternatives fondées sur la durabilité, la valorisation des ressources locales et la gouvernance inclusive. Trois grands axes guideront les échanges : l’évolution des paradigmes patrimoniaux et touristiques, l’apport des innovations numériques et de l’intelligence artificielle dans la médiation culturelle, ainsi que les enjeux institutionnels et participatifs pour une meilleure intégration du patrimoine et du tourisme dans les stratégies territoriales.

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Call for papers - Sociology

Maintaining public goods in an era of austerity

Journal Espaces et Sociétés No. 200

Local government service budgets have continued to be cut, exacerbating the social and environmental vulnerabilities that municipalities now have to manage with limited resources. The purpose of this dossier is to focus on the spatial dimension of the continuance and evolution of public goods in a context of austerity. In particular, we encourage ethnographic and situated perspectives that consider top-down political experiments and bottom-up urban practices and their convergence in the protection, maintenance and regeneration of public goods. The goal is to give space to studies that investigate the relationship between austerity, public goods and care practices.

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Barcelona

Call for papers - Urban studies

Crossing urban Planning cultures in time of conflict and reconciliation

Views on continental Europe, 1937-1945. Session 69 – EAUH 2026

The aim of this approach is to consider how national urban planning traditions are shaped by conflict-related constraints during periods of escalation towards war and of occupation. National historiographies have long considered this period as a parenthesis in the circulation of ideas and models. In contrast to this approach, the perspective of the session involves an in-depth investigation of urban planning theories on a European scale, as well as an analysis of personal and institutional exchanges, technical transfers and expertises before and during World War II.

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Call for papers - Sociology

Precarious housing in the Global South

Public interventions and residents' expériences

This call for abstracts aims to highlight the growth and complexity of precarious housing in a context of increasing urban inequality. Far from being reduced to marginality or poverty, these spaces represent a third of the world's population and play an active role in urban dynamics, combining vulnerability, inventiveness and collective capacities. In the face of often repressive or insufficiently coordinated policies, it calls for recognition of their diversity, their essential function in the urban fabric, and the importance of interdisciplinary reflection based on field surveys, via the following thematic areas: theme 1 - Ambivalent effects of urban public action, theme 2 - Residents' practices, mobilisation and daily resistance, theme 3 - Institutional, symbolic and criminal violence: forms, effects and social responses.

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Aubervilliers

Call for papers - Urban studies

Heritage dynamics in the urban peripheries

Heritage and the Metropolis

Metropolitan cities are well understood to be in the course of constant change. The city’s edges push ever outward into the suburbs or the hinterland. Heritage, on the other hand, certainly in the guide of preservation is often constructed as resistance to change; and yet is not static. The call is aimed at researchers interested in the relationship between heritage and the metropolis, between heritage preservation and urbanisation, in different geographical contexts. We want to compare situations observed in the North and South, in formerly industrialised and non-industrialised regions, in very active metropolises and others in decline.

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Brest

Conference, symposium - Sociology

10 ans après la COP21, quelles transformations écologiques dans les territoires ?

Ralentir, bifurquer, « transitionner »

En octobre 2015 se tenait en France la COP 21 sur le climat. L’accord de Paris, issu de cette COP, visait à maintenir le réchauffement de la Terre en deçà de 2°C, voire 1,5 °C par rapport aux niveaux préindustriels. Qu’en est-il 10 ans après ? Pourquoi les politiques territoriales de développement continuent-elles à tenir à distance les objectifs environnementaux pourtant identifiés et fixés depuis plus d’une décennie ? Avons-nous vraiment « ralenti » ? Ne faut-il pas bifurquer plus radicalement pour transformer nos territoires ?

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Call for papers - Urban studies

Understanding and reconverting tertiary vacancy

The vacancy of tertiary buildings is a growing issue in urban and regional dynamics. While vacant offices are a visible symptom of economic, social and environmental mutations, they also represent an opportunity to rethink the role of business districts and the uses of the city as a whole. The aim is to analyse tertiary vacancy in France and Europe for identifying the potential for converting unoccupied buildings, whether into housing or other functions: coliving, hotels, industrial or commercial activities, data centres, living labs, collaborative spaces, etc.

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Barcelona

Call for papers - Urban studies

Making the city differently: urban struggles, circulations and networks after 1945

Session 71 - EAUH 2026

We are pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for a session scheduled for the upcoming 2026 Conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) on the theme 'City Networks in Europe and beyond', to be held in Barcelona in September 3-6, entitled: Making the city differently: urban struggles, circulations and networks after 1945. This session will look at the circulation and transfer of critical discourses, as well as activist practices that challenge the dominant ways of making cities after 1945. From a transnational perspective, the aim is to trace the networks, interrelations and genealogies of critical and alternative urbanism in contemporary Europe and beyond.

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Barcelona

Call for papers - History

Sexual Metropolitans? Intercity Networks and Shared Cultures of Sexuality in Modern Cities

Conference of the European Association for Urban History (EUAH 2026)

This panel offers to bring together historians and social scientists studying modern urban sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries around the following theme: is there a common sexual culture in large cities of the late modern and contemporary eras, and what role do inter-urban circulations and networks play in its development?

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Barcelona

Call for papers - Europe

Sheltering the Displaced. Housing the ‘Other’ and the Making of the Post-war City

European Association for Urban History (EAUH) conference 2026

La session 70 “Sheltering the Displaced. Housing the ‘Other’ and the Making of the Post-war City”, organisée dans le cadre de la conférence de l’European Association for Urban History – City Networks in Europe and Beyond (Barcelone, du 2 au 5 septembre 2026) propose d’explorer comment les mouvements de population de l’après-guerre ont façonné les villes européennes à travers des politiques de logement destinées aux nouveaux migrants. Elle invite à réfléchir aux effets sociaux, politiques et spatiaux de ces politiques, ainsi qu’aux dynamiques d’intégration, de ségrégation et de transformation urbaine qui en ont découlé.

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Aubervilliers

Call for papers - Geography

Market gardening and fruit trees in urban and peri-urban areas

Socio-environmental issues and planning challenges

The evolution of market gardening and fruit trees is a rapidly expanding field of research, hence the need for in-depth studies to identify and maximize their positive impacts in disparate urban contexts (geographical and climatic) marked by often difficult conditions and particularly strong competition between different possible uses of resources. They play an essential socio-cultural role by reflecting important heritage, symbolic, and identity values. Finally, they bring local communities together around participatory and innovative projects involving citizens, public decision-makers, associations, and researchers.

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Aix-en-Provence

Study days - Geography

Habitabilité, sobriété, intensification

Une autre manière de fabriquer la ville #6

Depuis vingt ans, l’enchaînement des crises sociales, économiques, identitaires, technologiques, environnementales et aujourd’hui sanitaires et géopolitiques, transforme profondément la manière de fabriquer et de produire de la ville. Les limites de la métropolisation, des gouvernances locales et du capitalisme urbain imposent de trouver des alternatives. Ces alternatives, que l’on a appelé altermétropolisation, se retrouvent dans de nouvelles manières d’appréhender les fonctions urbaines classiques que sont les transports, le logement, le gouvernement ou encore l’environnement. Dans le même temps l’émergence et l’affirmation de phénomènes comme l’ubérisation territoriale ou la nécessité de décarboner les métropoles du Nord comme du Sud, constituent de nouveaux enjeux pour le développement et l’aménagement de nos villes.

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Call for papers - Africa

Le renouvellement urbain : enjeux et perspectives

Numéro 3 de la revue « JAUHS », Journal of Architecture, Urbanism and Heritage Studies

Le numéro 3 de la revue JAUHS se propose de revenir sur la problématique du développement durable des villes algériennes dans leurs environnements spécifiques, à travers la thématique du renouvellement urbain. Cet appel à articles cherche à rassembler des travaux portant sur la question sur les plans social, environnemental, patrimonial et économique.

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Call for papers - Urban studies

Feeding urban territories in North Africa

Crossed perspectives from Algeria and Egypt

This collective volume explores urban food supply systems in North Africa, with a particular focus on Algeria and Egypt, where rapid processes of metropolization and megalopolization intensify pressures on food resources. Through a territorially grounded approach, the book aims to examine the challenges of food security in cities facing urban sprawl, loss of agricultural land, rising food demand, and increasing dependence on imports. The objective is to provide a cross-cutting analysis of territorial dynamics, supply chains, urban–rural reconfigurations, and the limitations of public policies in addressing urban food systems. Contributions are expected to adopt empirical, comparative, or modelling approaches, addressing themes such as urban planning, multi-level governance, food justice, short supply chains, and the regulation of informal economies, all within a broader perspective of strengthening the resilience of urban food systems.

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Call for papers - Geography

Contested Geographies of Mountain Futures in the Socio and Eco-climate crisis

This call for papers invites contributions exploring, from a critical geography and political ecology perspective, the socio-environmental futures of mountain regions in the context of the eco-climatic crisis. It focuses on how power relations, conflicts, discourses, and imaginaries shape policies and visions of “mountain futures”. The aim is to analyze the tensions between dominant and alternative approaches, questioning dynamics of governance, socio-environmental justice, and the social production of nature. Submissions should offer theoretical and/or empirical reflections on post-crisis scenarios, paying particular attention to subaltern actors, alternative visions, and forms of contestation across diverse mountain contexts.

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