Luca Giovanni Pattaroni

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Suite à une formation en Relations Internationales (Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Genève) et un DEA en sciences sociales (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris/Ulm), Luca Pattaroni a soutenu une thèse de sociologie en cotutelle (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris/ Université de Genève) sous la direction de Laurent Thévenot (EHESS) et Jean Kellerhals (Université de Genève). Après avoir occupé durant 5 ans un poste d'assistant à la Faculté de Droit (Université de Genève), il a été visiting scholar à lUniversité de Columbia (New York). Il travaille désormais au Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine (EPFL) et est associé au Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (GSPM/EHESS). En 2011, il a été Professeur invité à l'Université Fédérale de Fluminense (Brésil). Ses recherches et publications portent sur les politiques urbaines et culturelles, l’habitat, les mouvements sociaux, les rythmes urbains et les grandes manifestation, l’évolution des modes de vie ainsi que, plus largement les enjeux du commun dans les villes contemporaines. Spécialiste des méthodes mixtes ainsi que de théorie sociologique et politique, il cherche à articuler une analyse fine du pluralisme des modes de vie et un questionnement sur les enjeux politiques et moraux de la composition dun monde commun.

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This chapter explores touristic infrastructures as politics of ambiance, paying attention to the way they enable urban environment and engage pedestrians to experience cities critically. This issue will be documented through an ethnographic study of two touristic “pedestrian paths” relying on artistic/plant facilities in the cities of Liège (Belgium) and Nantes (France). We will account in particular for the way those pedestrian paths frame the urban experience of tourists (or locals) at the same time orienting it (reducing the uncertainty) and opening it to the context, hence producing a peculiar contextual ambiance. On the basis of a first-person ethnographic experience and semi-directed interviews with “enchantment engineers”, this chapter will finally examine the political dimension of certain critical situations or statements, highlighting the construction of contrasting and politically differentiated tourist experiences.

Routledge2023

Counterculture as a Financial Asset: The Commodification of LX Factory in Lisbon

Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

In recent decades, European cultural policies have become inseparable from urban policies, with culture becoming both the new promotional tool for cities aiming to be ‘creative’ (Vanolo, 2008; Vivant, 2009) and the source of unprecedented real estate profits (Zukin, 1982; Piraud, 2017a). This new alliance is underpinned more fundamentally by the emergence of capitalism that is both urbanized (Harvey, 1985) and cultural (Scott, 2014), born, among other things, from the absorption of the critical movements of the 1960s and 1970s (Boltanski&Chiapello, 1999). Con-temporary cultural and urban policies appear hence-forth to be profoundly shaped by the recognition and institutionalization of counter-cultural critiques and practices. In addition to the emergence of a “new spirit of capitalism”, this cultural metamorphosis of capitalism is very concretely manifested in the evolu-tion of forms of urban production, both in such pro-cesses as gentrification (Lees, Slater, Wyly, 2013) but also, as we will argue, in the evolution of urban aes-thetics and, more broadly, new forms of economic valuation (Boltanski&Esquerre, 2017; 2020).

2023

Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva

Maxime Carl Felder, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni

In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious workers, undocumented or with temporary permits as well as asylum seekers. While the seasonal status disappeared in the early 2000s, the demand for low-skilled, flexible labour did not. Analysing the historical trajectories of specific buildings helps us to answer the question of who replaced the seasonal workers, not only in the labour and the housing markets, but also in the symbolic spectrum of legitimacy. This article introduces the notion of 'Subaltern Housing Policies' to account for the public action that leads to the production and subsequent use of forms of housing characterised by standards of comfort and security far below those of the rental and social housing stock, but considered 'good enough' for their occupants. We argue that 'subaltern' relates not only to housing conditions, but also to the policies themselves, and last but not least to the people who are subjected to them. This notion allows us to trace a link between the production of substandard forms of housing and the production of categories of people who are kept on the margins of full citizenship.

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2023