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Based on a theoretical corpus derived from sociology and urban geography, this article proposes to define the concept of commons. In order to formulate this conceptual proposal, the article is first based on a critical analysis of the literature on cross-b ...
Les agglomérations transfrontalières n’échappent pas aux politiques urbaines néolibérales visant à attirer de nouvelles populations qualifiées pour « monter en gammes » (Rousseau 2014). Les acteurs de la coopération transfrontalière œuvrent à la fluidifica ...
Les agglomérations transfrontalières n’échappent pas aux politiques urbaines néolibérales visant à attirer de nouvelles populations qualifiées pour « monter en gammes » (Rousseau 2014). Les acteurs de la coopération transfrontalière œuvrent à la fluidifica ...
At the crossroads of transportation engineering and urban sociology, the dissertation deciphers the interactions between daily mobility and social inequalities, what I call the "social mechanics of mobility". To do so, I draw on a twofold survey, both quan ...
Cross-border regions are seen as specific spaces where both cosmopolitanism and nationalistic attitudes can spread. It is commonly argued that due to the physical proximity to a neighbouring country, the development of cross-border encounters and interacti ...
The nature of the gap observed at the zone border in the spin excitation spectrum of CrI3 quasitwo-dimensional single crystals is still controversial. We perform first-principles calculations based on time-dependent density functional perturbation theory, ...
Understanding mobility behaviour in cross-border regions is a major challenge for transport policies and the wellbeing of people living near national borders. However, the available relevant information is often limited to a collection of unharmonized nati ...
Can living near a national border have an effect on the politicization of individuals? To answer this question, this article challenges the results put forward by some European Border Studies scholars granting the border a major role in the construction of ...
This chapter takes stock of contemporary migration by breaking with a few myths and by distinguishing between interregional and international migration. It shows how new research paradigms have relativized the importance of the state as the preferred frame ...
We study the innovation effects of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP), signed by Switzerland and the EU in 1999. Using geocoded patent data, complemented by matched inventor-immigrant-census records, we identify a large number of cross-bo ...
