VILMOUV project
Cities on the move. Mobilities and socio-spatial recompositions in Mediterranean cities
Presentation
VILMOUV studies the link between mobilities and urban transformations in the Mediterranean, in a context of major political and socio-economic changes. It draws on a multidisciplinary team of specialists in cities, mobility and migration. Different types of mobility are considered in their interdependence (tourist mobility, international migration, student migration, daily mobility, commercial and consumer circulation). VILMOUV studies the urban impacts of these multifaceted mobilities, as well as the inequalities and legitimate and illegitimate presences they generate in Mediterranean cities.
VILMOUV relies on 8 "city-workshops", to be launched between 2022 and 2026 in Turin, Sfax, Naples, Tel Aviv, Catania, Athens, Milan, Tunis, and Valletta. These "city workshops" are one-week field surveys that bring together specialists from one city and researchers from other fields, and cross-fertilize the knowledge of young and experienced researchers. They mobilize mainly ethnographic and qualitative methods from different disciplines (anthropology, geography, history, political science, sociology): observations, interviews, photographs, commented urban itineraries... These city-workshops give rise to the production of ethnographic tickets online.
Project coordinators
The VILMOUV program brings together some fifty researchers from more than 6 countries around the Mediterranean and from a variety of disciplines (geography, sociology, urban planning, anthropology, political science...). What we have in common is that we combine mobility studies and urban studies, with mainly ethnographic approaches focused on Mediterranean cities. In VILMOUV, we cross our views to try to better understand how mobilities are recomposing urban spaces in the Mediterranean region.
Thomas Pfirsch, Maître de conférences HDR, UPHF
Camille Schmoll, Directrice d'études EHESS
Giovanni Semi,Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Torino