Publications by Shin Alexandre Koseki

Hypertypes: From social bridges to an urbanism of aspirations, affordances and capabilities

Using multilayered individual massive data and geo-localization tracking, Computational Social Science and Social Physics attest the importance of face-to-face and place-to-place interactions in shaping human agency. The research suggests that collective a ...

2018

The geographic evolution of political cleavages in Switzerland: A network approach to assessing levels and dynamics of polarization between local populations

Shin Alexandre Koseki

Scholarly studies and common accounts of national politics enjoy pointing out the resilience of ideological divides among populations. Building on the image of political cleavages and geographic polarization, the regionalization of politics has become a tr ...

2018

Moral Matrices : Space Through the Unfolding of Direct Democracy in Switzerland

Shin Alexandre Koseki

In this dissertation, I address the political and moral geography of Swiss federal participatory votes for the period between 1981 and 2014 to re-investigate some of the fundamental questions left open in urban sciences: how and why socio-ethical, moral an ...

EPFL2017

Matrices morales: Espaces géographiques de la démocratie directe en Suisse

Shin Alexandre Koseki

2016