Alexis Gumy
EPFL ENAC IA LASUR
BP 2244 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://lasur.epfl.ch/
Fields of expertise
* Critical sociology of inequalities (social and spatial)
* Study of controversies (related to mobility)
* Sociology of quantification
* Modeling of sociological processes
* Border studies
Biography
My research deals with daily mobilities, their social inequalities, and subsequent spatial controversies. My work covers different types of spatial configurations, but most of it focuses on European border regions, especially the French-Swiss Greater Geneva. I develop my research topics in a threefold perspective: one of the social structures organizing individual positions (capital, social space, etc.), one of the sociological processes governing our daily behaviors (socialization, life course, etc.), and one of the political claims related to space (Gilets Jaunes, social movements about infrastructural projects, etc.). I argue for a quantitative and reflexive sociology, both close to statistical techniques, but also criticizing its own tools and keen to the use of qualitative methods.Professional course
Postdoctoral Researcher
Laboratory of Urban Sociology
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2023 - present
Research Scholar
Department of Civil Engineering
University of California at Berkeley (USA)
2021
Doctoral Assistant
Laboratory of Urban Sociology & Transport and Mobility Laboratory
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2018 - 2023
Scientific Assistant
Laboratory of Urban Sociology
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2018
Education
PhD. of Science
Architecture & Sciences of the City
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2018 - 2023
Master of Science
Civil Engineering - Spec. Transport & Mobility
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2015 - 2017
Bachelor of Science
Civil Engineering
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2010 - 2014
Publications
Selected publications
Clément G., Gumy A., Audikana A., Drevon G., Kaufmann V. & Daffe L. EPFL Press, Lausanne [in press] |
Sociétés frontalières : Une enquête sociologique au cœur de trois espaces frontaliers européens |
Gumy A. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
La mécanique sociale des mobilités. Enquête sur les inégalités de déplacements quotidiens dans trois espaces frontaliers européens |
Gumy A. Justice spatiale | Spatial justice [tbp] |
Deux associations face au désenclavement : une lecture concurrentielle de la justice mobilitaire |
Clément G. & Gumy A. Politix 136 (4) |
Plus qu’un effet de frontière. Politisation ordinaire et luttes d’appartenance dans une commune frontalière suisse |
Gumy A., Drevon G. & Kaufmann V. European Urban and Regional Studies 29 (1) |
Inequalities in access to cross-border resources? An analysis based on spatio-temporal behaviours in the cross-border area of Greater Geneva |