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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• political informality
• arrangement
• urban space
• power
• collective research approach