Maintaining the Grounds of Urban and Territorial Governance in Contexts of Socio-Environmental Vulnerability
Jun 11, 2025 — 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
We are pleased to welcome Sophie Nemoz, associate professor of sociology at Université Marie et Louis Pasteur (France), for a public conference:
In situations of socio-environmental vulnerability, how to keep in repair the grounds of urban and territorial governance?
Prof. Nemoz will explore how to care for and manage urban and territorial fragilities in the Anthropocene. Drawing from her transdisciplinary research, she will offer critical insights into the notion of “maintenance” in governance.
Her conference will contribute to a better understanding of how to manage urban and territorial fragilities in the Anthropocene. The multiscalar and transdisciplinary analyses from her research on inhabited soils in the context of climate change will be shared across scientific, social, and political dimensions. Sophie NEMOZ will present her critical and conceptual contributions to the notion of “maintenance.”
About the Speaker:
Sophie NEMOZ is an associate professor at the Université Marie et Louis Pasteur and a researcher at the Laboratory of Sociology and Anthropology, affiliated with the Claude Nicolas Ledoux Institute for Human and Environmental Sciences (MSHE CNRS INSHS), where she leads several scientific initiatives.
She is the elected head of the thematic network “Sociology of the Environment and Risks” within the French Sociological Association (RT38 – AFS), and an elected member of both the European network “Environment & Society” (RN 12 – European Sociological Association) and the “Housing and Built Environment” network of the International Sociological Association (RC 43 – ISA).
Her research focuses on the multi-level territorialization (local, national, and international scales) of ecological challenges in human settlements in both French and European contexts. This includes topics such as governance practices, innovations and risks, and the diversity of stakeholders by profession, gender, and life stage, as well as territorial and supranational policies.
Together with Paul Cary and Hélène Melin, she is currently co-editing the upcoming issue of the journal Développement Durable & Territoires, and recently published a book chapter titled “Sustainable housing: international relations between housing and the environment revisited”, co-edited in 2023 by Joël Kassiola & Timothy W. Luke, in the international reference volume The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Politics and Theory.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14346-5