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Sylvie TISSOT CSU-­‐CRESPPA Site Pouchet 59-­‐61 rue Pouchet 75017 Paris -­‐ France. 00 33 1 55 86 95 37 sylvie.tissot@univ-­‐paris8.fr ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of Paris-­‐8, 2011-­‐present. Co-­‐Director, Master’s Program in Political Science, University of Paris-­‐8, 2011-­‐present. Visiting Scholar, Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU, September 2012-­‐March 2013. Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU, August-­‐September 2011. Assistant Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of Strasbourg, 2004-­‐2011. Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, January-­‐September 2007. EDUCATION _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Habilitation à diriger des recherches, University of Lyon, 2010. Catégorisation sociale/hiérarchisation spatiale. Des réformateurs aux notables de quartier. France-­‐Etats-­‐Unis (Social categorization/spatial hierarchization. From neighborhood reformers to notables. France-­‐United States). Jean-­‐Yves Authier, advisor. PhD in Sociology with highest honors, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2002. Réformer les quartiers. Enquête sociologique sur une catégorie de l’action publique (Reforming underprivileged areas. Sociological inquiry on a category of public action.) Christian Topalov, advisor. Agrégation in Economics and Social Sciences, 1997. 2
Master’s in Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1995. Master’s in Political Science, Institut d’études politiques of Paris, 1993. CURRENT RESEARCH _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diversity and spatial mix in “gay” gentrified neighborhoods : New York-­‐Paris. Principal investigator, CSU-­‐CRESPPA, University of Paris 8 (2011-­‐2014). Where do “bobos” come from? Studying a contemporary urban terminology. Co-­‐
principal investigator with Jean-­‐Yves Authier (2011-­‐2014). Making urban neighborhoods: mobility, circulation and borrowing at the age of ‘global city’. Research Program Coordinator with Susanna Magri, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme-­‐
Paris Nord (2009-­‐present). TEACHING _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Master’s Program in Dance and Choreography, University of Stockholm: Workshop in Social Science (December 2013). Master’s Program of Political Science “Discriminations”, University of Paris 8: Discriminations and diversity (2011-­‐2014). Bachelor’s Program of Political Science: Introductory Political Science; North American Cities; Sociology of the State. Lecturer, Master’s Program in Territories, Space, and Societies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2008-­‐2011). PUBLICATIONS _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Books De bons voisins. Enquête dans un quartier de la bourgeoisie progressiste. Paris, Raisons d’Agir, 2011 (Good Neighbors. Researching Upper Middle Class Progressives, English 3
Translation forthcoming, Verso, 2015). La dimension spatiale des inégalités. Regards croisés des sciences sociales (The Spatial Dimension of Inequalities: Perspectives from the Social Sciences). Ed. with Isabelle Backouche, Fabrice Ripoll and Vincent Veschambre. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011. L’Etat et les quartiers. Genèse d’une catégorie d’action publique (The State and the Neighborhoods. Construction of a Category of Public Action). Paris, Seuil, 2007. Les reconversions militantes (Activist Careers and Conversions). Limoges, Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2006. Articles Loving diversity/controlling diversity. Exploring the ambivalent mobilization of upper middle class gentrifiers, South End, Boston, International Journal for Urban and Regional Research (forthcoming 2015). ¿Existe algo como un “problema de los barrios sensibles”? Retorno sobre una categoría de acción pública, Antropología de las políticas públicas, vol 12, 2013, p. 137-­‐
153. Les métamorphoses de la domination sociale. La bourgeoisie progressiste et les quartiers populaires. Savoir/Agir, 19, 2012, 61-­‐68 Of Dogs and Men: The Making of Spatial Boundaries in a Gentrifying Neighborhood. City and Community 10(3), September 2011, 265–284. Excluding Muslim Women: From Hijab to Niqab, from School to Public Space. Public Culture 23(1), Winter 2011. Naissance d’un quartier ‘historique’ : patrimonialisation architecturale et luttes politiques dans le South End de Boston (1965-­‐1995) (“Birth of a ‘historic district’: Architectural Preservation and Political Fights in the South End, Boston, 1965-­‐1995.”) Sociétés contemporaines n° 80, 2010, 5-­‐28. Quand la mixité sociale mobilise des gentrifieurs. Enquête sur un mot d’ordre militant à Boston(“Gentrifiers for Diversity: Low-­‐Income Housing and the Mobilization of Upper-­‐Middle Class Residents in Boston.”) Espaces et sociétés n° 140-­‐141, 1-­‐2 (2010), 127-­‐142. French suburbs: A New Problem or a New Approach to Social Exclusion? Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Working Paper Series #160, 2008. 4
The role of race and class in urban marginality. Discussing Loïc Wacquant’s comparison between the USA and France. City 11(3), December 2007, 364-­‐369. Troubled Banlieues or Banlieues in Trouble? (De)Constructing a Social Problem. French Politics, Culture and Society 24(3), Winter 2006, 42-­‐57. Les sociologues et la ‘banlieue’. Construction savante du ‘problème des quartiers sensibles’, 1985-­‐1995 (“The Sociologists and the ‘Banlieue’. The Scientific Construction of the ‘Problem of Underprivileged Areas.’ 1985-­‐1995.”) Genèses 60, September 2005. La spatialisation des problèmes sociaux” (“The Spatialization of Social Problems”), with Franck Poupeau. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 159, September 2005. Une discrimination informelle? Usage de la notion de mixité sociale dans la gestion des attributions de logements HLM (“Informal Discrimination? Promoting Social Diversity in the Attribution of Public Housing.”) Actes de la recherche en sciences 159, September 2005. Reconversions dans la politique de la ville : l'engagement pour les ‘quartiers’ (“The Role of Political Activists in the Development of Urban Policy.”) Politix 70, 2005. Identifier ou décrire les ‘quartiers sensibles’? Le recours aux indicateurs statistiques dans la politique de la ville (“Identifying or Describing the ‘Underprivileged Areas’? The Use of Statistical Indicators in Urban Development Policy.”) Genèses 54, March 2004. La production d’espaces pacifiés? La réforme des ‘quartiers sensibles’ par le développement social urbain (“Making Pacified Areas? Urban Social Development’s Reform of ‘Difficult Neighborhood.’ ”) Regards sociologiques 25-­‐26, 2003. De l’‘emblème’ au ‘problème’. Histoire des grands ensembles dans une mairie communiste (“From ‘Emblem’ to ‘Problem’. The History of Housing Projects in a Communist Municipality.”) Annales de la recherche urbaine 93, March 2003. Chapters How the “banlieues” have become a social problem? Discourse on space, class and race in France (1985-­‐1995), in Mari C. Jones and David Hornsby (ed), Language and Social Structure in Urban France, Oxford, Legenda, 2013. “Anything but soul food”. Goût et dégoût alimentaires chez les habitants d’un quartier gentrifié, in Philippe Coulangeon et Julien Duval, Trente ans après La Distinction, Paris, La Découverte, 2013, 141-­‐152. 5
Qui a peur du communautarisme ?, in Bertrand Badie et Dominique Vidal (dir.) La cassure. L’état du monde 2013, Paris, La Découverte, 2012. La construction de la notion de quartier sensible dans la politique de la ville en France , in Pierre Robert Baduel (dir), La ville et l’urbain dans le Monde arabe et en Europe. Acteurs, Organisations et Territoires, Paris, Maisonneuve&Larose, 2009, 147-­‐155. Sociologie urbaine et politique de la ville : retour sur une rencontre autour des “quartiers d’exil ”, in Jean-­‐Yves Authier, Marie-­‐Hélène Bacqué et France Guerin-­‐Pace (dir.), Le quartier. Enjeux scientifiques, actions politiques et pratiques sociales, Paris, La Découverte, 2007, 65-­‐
74. Le développement social : un travail social pacifié ? , in Jacques Ion (dir.), Les débats du travail social, Paris, La Découverte, 2005, 104-­‐115. La parole et le projet comme remède pour les “quartiers sensibles” : histoire d'un engouement pour la démocratie locale ”, in Robert Le Duff et Jean-­‐Jacques Rigal (dir.), Démocratie et management local, Paris, Dalloz, 2004, 529-­‐541. Réformer par la “ proximité” : territorialisation d'un atelier municipal et arpentage dans les quartiers, in Luc Deroche et Gilles Jeannot (dir.), L'action publique au travail, Toulouse, Octaves, 2004, 67-­‐72. Reports Avec Colin Giraud, Wilfried Rault, Mathieu Trachman, Les hétéros du Marais. Enquête sur la gay-­‐friendliness, Paris, CSU-­‐CRESPPA, January 2014. Les émeutes de novembre 2005 et la jeunesse des quartiers populaires : synthèse bibliographique (November 2005 Riots and the Working Class Youth: a Bibliography), Conseil national des villes, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2007. Co-­‐investigator, Partnership and Urban Projects in Established Neighorhoods : Comparing Goutte d’Or (Paris)/South End (Boston). Coordinated by Marie-­‐Hélène Bacqué, University of Evry, France and John P. Driscoll, Graduate School of Design, Harvard, 2003-­‐2005. Contributor, Les discriminations raciales et ethniques dans l’accès au logement social (Racial and Ethnic Discriminations in Public Housing), edited by Patrick Simon et Thomas Kirszbaum, Groupe d’études sur les discriminations, 2000-­‐2001. 6
Editorial Editorial Board Member, Sociologie, 2013-­‐present. Editorial Board Member, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 2011-­‐present. Editorial Board Member, Regards sociologiques, 2009-­‐present. Co-­‐Editor, special issue, Centres-­‐villes : modèles, luttes, pratiques (Inner-­‐city neighborhoods), Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 195, December 2012. Co-­‐Editor, special issue, Penser, classer, administrer la pauvreté 1 (Thinking, Classifying and Administering Poverty 1), Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, with Franck Poupeau, 159, September 2005. Co-­‐Editor, special issue, Penser, classer, administrer la pauvreté 2 (Thinking, Classifying, and Administering Poverty 2), Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, with Loïc Wacquant and Franck Poupeau, 160, December 2005. Co-­‐Editor, special issue, Mobilité/autochtonie. Sur la dimension spatiale des ressources sociales (Mobility/Embeddedness. Studying spatial dimension of social resources”), Regards sociologiques, 40, 2010. LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Being gay-­‐friendly in Park Slope and Le Marais: a comparative study of New York and Paris, Conference at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University-­‐MIT, September 23d 2013 Un quartier gay-­‐friendly ? Ethnographie du Marais hétérosexuel, Conference La sexualité et la Cinquième République/Sex and France since 1958, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, September 20th 2013 Comparing gay-­‐friendliness in France and in the United States, Conference French-­‐
American Comparisons, University of Nanterre, June 17th 2013. Belonging with Strangers? Conference with Elijah Anderson, Workshop Belonging Today, Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU, New York, February 25th 2013. La genèse étasunienne du livre Les bobos, de David Brooks, Conference D’où viennent les « bobos » ? Genèse, circulation et usages d'une catégorie de description et d'analyse des espaces urbains, CSU-­‐CRESPPA, Paris, September 6th 2012. 7
Hétérosexualité et gay-­‐friendliness dans deux quartiers gays gentrifiés : enquête sur les recompositions de l’hétéronormativité, Congrès recherches féministes francophones, Lausanne, September 1st 2012. Presentation of De bons voisins. Enquête dans un quartier de la bourgeoisie progressiste, Conference Gentrification and Social Mix Policies, Sciences Po, Paris, March 21th 2012. Exploring categories of classification of urban spaces: from French “banlieues” to American “historic” and “diverse” neighborhoods. Conference Taking Bourdieu to Town, University of York, May 31st 2012. The invention of ‘at risk’ neighborhoods. Conference, Des banlieues à la ville, espaces et acteurs de la négociation urbaine, Institut Français du Proche Orient, Beyrouth, October 31-­‐
November 1st 2011. Loving diversity/controlling diversity: the dynamic of inclusion and exclusion in American upper middle class culture. Conference, The struggle to belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban settings, RC21, University of Amsterdam, July 7-­‐9th 2011. Gentrification, high culture and social distinction: the liberal upper middle class in Boston. Conference, Current Research on Elite Distinction, Maison française, Oxford University, June 13t h2011 Spatial boundaries and symbolic boundaries: the case of the French suburbs. Workshop, The Linguistic Correlates of Space 2, Cambridge University 2, January 7th 2011. How the ‘banlieues’ have become a social problem: discourse on class and immigration in France (1985-­‐1995). Workshop, The Linguistic Correlates of Space 1, University of Kent, Great Britain, July 9th 2010. From La Goutte d'Or (Paris) to the South End (Boston): Gentrification and Neighborhood Associations. Brown Bag Seminar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May 1, 2007. La façade victorienne contre le stigmate du ghetto: analyse d’une entreprise de patrimonialisation architecturale dans un espace déqualifié.” (The Victorian façade against the ghetto stigma: analyzing a preservation undertaking in a depreciated neighborhood.) Conference, Les façades institutionnelles. Constructions, logiques sociales et appropriations des “orthodoxies”, Université Sorbonne-­‐Paris I, September 25, 2009. Bourdieu’s legacy in Urban Studies and Sociology of Poverty in France. Symposium, After Bourdieu, Harvard University, Cambridge, April 7, 2008. ‘French Suburbs’: a New Problem or a New Approach to Social Exclusion?, Center for European studies, Harvard University, March 22, 2007. 8
La réception de La domination masculine de Pierre Bourdieu chez les chercheures sur le genre (“The Reception of Pierre Bourdieu’s La domination masculine by Gender Studies’ Scholars.”) Seminar, Genre et rapports sociaux de sexe, Laboratoire Culture et sociétés en Europe, Marc Bloch University, May 11, 2005. Rejecting Identity Politics: Discussions of Post-­‐Colonial Immigrants in France. Department of History, University of Oklahoma, April 19, 2005. Troubled Banlieues or Banlieues in Trouble? (De)Constructing a Social Problem. Panel, The lost banlieues of the Republic, Institute of French Studies, New York University, November 5, 2004. GRANTS AND PRIZES _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fulbright Grant, 2012-­‐2013. Paris 2030 Grant, City of Paris, 2011-­‐2013. Maison des Sciences de l’Homme-­‐ Paris Nord, 2011-­‐2013. Urban studies Grant, University of Paris-­‐8, 2008-­‐2011.