Maxime Felder
EPFL ENAC IA LASUR
BP 2241 (Bâtiment BP)
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Expertise
- Urban sociology: social relations, neighbouring, coexistence, urban practices, social networks and social capital
- Citizenship: naturalisation process, political rituals, transition to adulthood and age of majority
Expertise
- Urban sociology: social relations, neighbouring, coexistence, urban practices, social networks and social capital
- Citizenship: naturalisation process, political rituals, transition to adulthood and age of majority
Education
PhD
| Sociology
2018 – 2018
University of Geneva
Directed by
Sandro Cattacin, Alessandro Monsutti
MA
| Sociology2013 – 2013 University of Geneva
BA
| Social work, social policy and anthropology2010 – 2010 University of Fribourg
Mes publications
“You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ” Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media
Housing, Theory and Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1080/14036096.2025.2550741.Les intimations de l’intimité en situation d’hospitalité
SociologieS. 2025. DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/13svf.Voisinage
Géographies, un dictionnaire; Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2025.Beyond support or exploitation: inequality and reciprocity in informal housing arrangements between newcomers and their migrant hosts
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2024. DOI : 10.1080/1369183x.2024.2429671.Ein Porträt der Schweiz anhand von zwölf Städten
Die Schweiz von A(rbon) bis Z(ug). Porträt in 12 Städten; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2024. p. 265 - 283.Die Schweiz von A(rbon) bis Z(ug). Porträt in 12 Städten
Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2024.De l'urbain ordinaire aux villes singulières
La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug) - portrait en 12 villes; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2024.La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug) Portrait en 12 villes
Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2024.Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings
Housing Theory & Society. 2023. DOI : 10.1080/14036096.2023.2247404.Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva
European Urban And Regional Studies. 2023. DOI : 10.1177/09697764231167091.Social Workers and Irregular Migrants in the Assistance Circuit: Making Sense of Paradoxical Inclusion
Social Inclusion. 2023. DOI : 10.17645/si.v11i3.6764.Building up hospitable milieux from the arrival infrastructure
19th International Conference of the International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE 2022), Oslo, Norway, June 29-July 1, 2022.L’hospitalité urbaine au risque de la contagion
EspacesTemps.net. 2022.Forger la citoyenneté juvénile. Anthropologie d’un rituel politique
Lausanne: Antipodes, 2022.Familiarity as a Practical Sense of Place
Sociological Theory. 2021. DOI : 10.1177/07352751211037724.Informal housing for informal workers in wealthy Geneva
House of Cards: The Rules and Institutions of Housing Illegality in Western Countries, Oxford, England, May 21-22, 2022.Home and community, by Sandra Costa Santos, Nadia Bertolino, Stephen Hicks, Camilla Lewis and Vanessa May
Housing Studies. 2021. DOI : 10.1080/02673037.2021.1858529.La Ville confinée
COVID-19 Le regard des sciences sociales; Zürich, Genève: Editions Seismo, 2020.La Fête des voisins: un rituel conjuratoire ?
métropolitiques.eu. 2020.Die Abgeschottete Stadt
COVID19 Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive; Zürich: Seismo Verlag, 2020.Capital social
Dictionnaire de politique sociale suisse; Zürich, Genève: Seismo, 2020.Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties: A Relational Perspective on Urban Coexistence
Sociology. 2020. DOI : 10.1177/0038038519895938.Between Hospitality and Inhospitality: The Janus-Faced 'Arrival Infrastructure'
Urban Planning. 2020. DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i3.2941.Sommeil des adolescents et rythmes scolaires
Genève: Université de Genève, 2019.Teaching & PhD
Courses
Urban habitat and developement
AR-465
Focusing on the forms of habitat of the most disadvantaged in the countries of the South and the North and the contexts of crises, in particular emergency architecture, the course offers a critical analysis of the urbanisation of the world in the 21st century.
Urban sociology
AR-489
This course aims to familiarize students with urban sociology through the lens of housing. It enables them to navigate the concepts, tools, and methods the discipline offers to understand the simultaneous evolution of lifestyles and the spatial and political organization of territory. Deman