Elisabetta Rosa

Premier volume de la nouvelle collection Habiter. Cahiers transdisciplinaires ; elle est centrée autour du thème de l'habiter abordé dans la pluralité de ses significations, et dans le sens le plus large du terme.
L'originalité de cette collection réside dans sa nature pluridisciplinaire - histoire, sciences sociales, architecture et art -, visant en particulier à associer une approche centrée sur les pratiques individuelles et collectives à la dimension morpho-typologique, avec un regard de longue durée.
Organisée en volumes thématiques, la collection se veut un lieu d'expérimentation, accueillant des articles théoriques, aussi bien que des présentations d'expériences de terrain et des « regards » d'artistes sur la thématique abordée.
Ce volume met l'accent sur les pratiques, sur les formes temporaires et éphémères, ainsi que sur ce qui est l'inhabituel, le « hors quotidien ». Les questions relatives aux inégalités, aux injustices spatiales et aux vulnérabilités résidentielles sont au coeur de ce projet de réflexion collective.

Abstract submission (max. 3000 signs, including spaces): 15th November 2020.
Full papers (between 25,000 and 30,000 signs spaces included) are expected by 30 March 2021.
All texts can be written in English or French.

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Les propositions de contribution (max. 3000 signes, espaces compris) sont attendues pour le 15 novembre.
La longueur des articles sera comprise entre 25.000 et 30.000 signes. Ils seront attendus pour le 30 mars 2021.

Tous les textes peuvent être rédigés en français ou en anglais.

In this text, the right to the city is used as a prism to analyse the transformations of Brussels’s city centre, notably in relation to the edestrianization of the central boulevards. Drawing on four case studies that analyse this development plan from different perspectives – the participatory process, the experience of homeless people, the representations and practices on the edges of the gay district, the interactions between public spacesand residential spaces – the aim is to cross-reference their respective contributions with the concept of the right to the city and its specific articulations in this context.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

For the last three decades or so, European cities have had to deal with the issue of land occupation by migrant populations from Eastern Europe. The city of Turin has adopted various measures with respect to the “Roma question”: the closure of certain illegal camps, tolerance of others – facilitating their consolidation – and the creation of supervised “official” camps. Despite the apparent contradictions, these policies in fact all lead to similar outcomes: spatial relegation and the containment of the populations concerned.

The article explores the relationship between homeless people and the city. Through an ethnography of “homelessness life” in Brussels, it analyses the daily practices these people develop to make public spaces inhabitable. Living rough is often considered as the expression of the “absence of dwelling” and a radical exclusion from society. This one-dimensional representation does not account for an ever-changing and diversified phenomenon, which this paper aims to account for. Indeed, focusing on sleeping and cleaning practices of homeless people, and particularly women, it shows how they perform urban space, through practices, spaces and affects, make their place within the city and inhabit it. Résumé Cet article porte sur la relation à la ville des personnes sans-abri. À travers une ethnographie de la « vie sans-abri » à Bruxelles, il analyse les pratiques quotidiennes que ces personnes développent pour rendre les espaces publics habitables. La vie à la rue est souvent réduite à l’...

Les éditions Imbernon publient une collection intitulée Habiter. Cahiers transdisciplinaires (dir. E. Canepari et B. Marin). Organisée en volumes thématiques, elle se veut un lieu d'expérimentation, accueillant des articles théoriques, aussi bien que des présentations d’expériences de terrain et des « regards » d'artistes sur la thématique abordée. L’originalité de cette collection réside dans sa nature pluridisciplinaire - histoire, sciences sociales, architecture, urbanisme et art -, visant en particulier à associer une approche centrée sur les pratiques individuelles et collectives de l’habiter à la dimension morpho-typologique, avec un regard de longue durée.Ce premier volume met l'accent sur les pratiques et les formes temporaires et éphémères de l’habiter, ainsi que sur ce qui est l’inhabituel, le « hors quotidien » ou qui s’éloigne d’une idée d’habitabilité. Les questions relatives aux inégalités, aux injustices spatiales et aux vulnérabilités résidentielles sont ...

Les transformations de l’Etat belge a travers ses multiples transferts de competences entre l’Etat central et les entites federees ont eu des consequences territoriales fondamentales sur la gestion de la question sociale. L’article propose d’etudier la conduite des politiques de lutte contre la pauvrete (LCP) a destination des personnes sans-abri sur le territoire de la Region de Bruxelles-Capitale a partir des transformations successives des rapports entre acteurs publics et secteur associatif. Nous placons au cœur de l’analyse la maniere dont les transformations spatiales et territoriales ont participe a reconfigurer la gestion de la pauvrete par l’acception du pauvre local et le rejet du pauvre venu d’ailleurs. Pour ce faire, nous nous focalisons sur les jeux de cooperation ou d’eviction entre acteurs dans la prise en charge de la tres grande precarite urbaine. En croisant les apports de la sociologie et de l’urbanisme, il s’agit a la fois de mieux comprendre les enjeux de gouver...

This article stems from research on the housing practices and the precarious living conditions of Roma migrants in Turin and Marseille. It focuses on how the marginalization processes to which Roma migrants fall victim are constantly challenged by spatial practices in urban settings. Settling down in cities, bypassing the lack of water, begging, recovering waste, roaming the city: a careful analysis of these practices allows for a demonstration of their discretely resistant character while recognizing the agency of these populations, which is itself often denied and forgotten behind the label “Roma”. Resistance to precariousness and marginalization caused by public policies also translates into expressions of territorialization and silent claims of urbanity.

The transformations of the Belgian state entailing multiple transfers of competences from the central state to federated entities has had fundamental territorial consequences on the management of ‘the social question’. The article proposes to study anti-poverty policies (APP) for homeless people in the Brussels-capital region based on successive transformations in the relationship between public actors and the voluntary sector. This analysis focuses on the way spatial and territorial transformations have rearticulated the management of poverty as well as ‘games’ of cooperation or eviction among actors dealing with extreme urban poverty, in which they accept the local poor and reject poor people from elsewhere. By combining insights from sociology and urban planning, the aim is to better understand both issues of multi-level governance in metropolitan areas and how to (try to) counter forms of spatial injustice.

Waste picking is an old practice, whereby profit is gained by recovering recyclable materials from discarded objects and reintroducing them into the formal and informal economic circuits. Recycling and recovery of waste in urban centres in the Global South has been the subject of a number of studies. However, this activity also exists in more affluent cities. Based on research carried out in Turin (Italy) and Marseille (France), in this paper we analyse waste picking by Roma communities, showing that this activity not only provides them with an income from the sale of recycled objects and materials but also allows them to assemble their access to the city and its multiple resources –people, objects, spaces. Only the recognition of the Roma as workers and citizens beyond any imposed normalisation can bring about a change in the way their being-in-the-city is considered both at a social, economic and political level.

Depuis une trentaine d’annees, les villes europeennes sont confrontees a l’occupation de terrains par des populations migrantes d’Europe de l’Est. Dans le traitement de cette « question Rom », Turin a choisi tour a tour l’expulsion de certains camps, la tolerance d’autres, qui a permis leur consolidation, et la creation de camps « officiels » encadres. Au-dela de leur contradiction apparente, ces politiques convergent dans la relegation spatiale et le maintien sous controle des populations concernees

The transformations of the Belgian state entailing multiple transfers of competences from the central state to federated entities has had fundamental territorial consequences on the management of 'the social question'. The article proposes to study anti-poverty policies (APP) for homeless people in the Brussels-capital region based on successive transformations in the relationship between public actors and the voluntary sector. This analysis focuses on the way spatial and territorial transformations have rearticulated the management of poverty as well as 'games' of cooperation or eviction among actors dealing with extreme urban poverty, in which they accept the local poor and reject poor people from elsewhere. By combining insights from sociology and urban planning, the aim is to better understand both issues of multi-level governance in metropolitan areas and how to (try to) counter forms of spatial injustice.

Cet article porte sur la relation à la ville des personnes sans-abri. À travers une ethnographie de la « vie sans-abri » à Bruxelles, il analyse les pratiques quotidiennes que ces personnes développent pour rendre les espaces publics habitables. La vie à la rue est souvent réduite à l’expression de « l’absence de l’habiter » et à une sortie radicale de la société. Cette représentation ne correspond pourtant pas à un phénomène très diversifié et en constante transformation, comme ce texte le révèle. En focalisant l’attention sur les pratiques que les personnes sans-abri, et notamment les femmes, déploient pour dormir et pour se laver, il montre comment ces personnes construisent leur rapport physique, corporel, affectif à la ville, et comment elles trouvent leur place dans la ville et la rendent habitable.

> Abstract In this text, the right to the city is used as a prism to analyse the transformations of Brussels's city centre, notably in relation to the pedestrianization of the central boulevards. Drawing on four case studies that analyse this development plan from different perspectives-the participatory process, the experience of homeless people, the representations and practices on the edges of the gay district, the interactions between public spaces and residential spaces-the aim is to cross-reference their respective contributions with the concept of the right to the city and its specific articulations in this context.

Roma people living in makeshift settlements in Western European cities are frequently represented as the ultimate example of socio-spatial marginalisation and vulnerability. In Italy and France, it is common practice for police forces to evict inhabitants from these places, often legitimized by discourses of security and hygiene that highlight the Roma’s unhealthy and unsafe living conditions. At the same time, local authorities sometimes provide makeshift settlements with chemical toilets and on-site health care services. In both cases, Roma people are seen and treated as passive objects of public action and power. By focusing on self-care practices and the way Roma people deal with the lack of water and sanitation infrastructures, and drawing on a piece of ethnographic research I conducted in Turin and Marseille, in this paper I show how they take care of themselves and challenge marginalisation and vulnerability. Based on Butlerian arguments, the analysis focuses on how spaces of self-care are constantly re-created and transformed and how the differential allocation of vulnerability is faced accordingly, allowing the Roma people to make their lives liveable. Based on this analysis, the paper concludes with reconsidering the relationship between self-care and vulnerability from a perspective that takes into account both the biological and the biographical dimensions of life. Rethinking self-care and showing how it matters in making life liveable under both these dimensions can open up new possibilities against differential vulnerability and the de-humanisation of the Roma people.