Maxime Felder
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1015 Lausanne
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Fields of 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
Biography
Maxime Felder holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Geneva. His dissertation - "Building familiarity. Coexistence in an urban context" - dealt with how urbanites manage to coexist peacefully, in a residential context, without knowing each other personally. He is now involved in a new research project on cities' hospitality towards newcomers.Education
PhD
Sociology
University of Geneva
24.09.2018
MA
Sociology
University of Geneva
2013
BA
Social work, social policy and anthropology
University of Fribourg
2010
Publications
Infoscience publications
My publications
De l'urbain ordinaire aux villes singulières
La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug) - portrait en 12 villes; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2024-05-23.La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug) Portrait en 12 villes
Lausanne: EPFL Press.Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva
European Urban And Regional Studies. 2023-04-25. DOI : 10.1177/09697764231167091.Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings
Housing Theory & Society. 2023-08-20. DOI : 10.1080/14036096.2023.2247404.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. 2022-01-17.Forger la citoyenneté juvénile. Anthropologie d’un rituel politique
Lausanne: Antipodes.Faire du sur-place sans jamais pouvoir prendre place : l’interminable arrivée de jeunes maghrébins sans-papiers à Genève
Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales. 2022. DOI : 10.31235/osf.io/abg7n.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 .Familiarity as a Practical Sense of Place
Sociological Theory. 2021-08-10. DOI : 10.1177/07352751211037724.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.Die Abgeschottete Stadt
COVID19 Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive; Zürich: Seismo Verlag, 2020. p. 364.Capital social
Dictionnaire de politique sociale suisse; Zürich, Genève: Seismo, 2020. p. 620.Between Hospitality and Inhospitality: The Janus-Faced 'Arrival Infrastructure'
Urban Planning. 2020. DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i3.2941.La Ville confinée
COVID-19 Le regard des sciences sociales; Zürich, Genève: Editions Seismo, 2020-06-18. p. 335.La Fête des voisins: un rituel conjuratoire ?
métropolitiques.eu. 2020-02-13.Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties: A Relational Perspective on Urban Coexistence
Sociology. 2020. DOI : 10.1177/0038038519895938.Sommeil des adolescents et rythmes scolaires
Genève: Université de Genève.Who are the strangers?
Divercities: Understanding super diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods; Bristol: Policy Press, 2019. p. 256.Shops as the bricks and mortar of place identity
Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life; Wiesbaden: Springer, 2018. p. 97-114.« Je préfère les dealers à une rue déserte » : coexistence et familiarisation en milieu urbain
Sociologie. 2018.Citoyen·ne·s, mais pas encore adultes ? Les injonctions à la responsabilité et à la citoyenneté dans les rituels d’accession à la majorité en Suisse
Lien social et Politiques. 2018. DOI : 10.7202/1044112ar.Small, M. L. Someone To Talk To. 2017. Oxford University Press. 288 pp. £22.99 (Hardback)
The British Journal of Sociology. 2018. DOI : 10.1111/1468-4446.12510.Scène et coulisses des cérémonies d’accession à la majorité civique et civile à Genève
Ethnographiques.org. 2017.Connivences et antagonismes. Enquête sociologique dans six rues de Genève
Genève: Université de Genève.Susanne Wessendorf 2014: Commonplace Diversity: Social Relations in a Super-diverse Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2016. DOI : 10.1111/1468-2427.12310.La diversité sur le palier. Catégorisations ordinaires d’un voisinage hétérogène à Genève
Lien social et Politiques. 2016. DOI : 10.7202/1037910ar.Rendre des comptes aux enquêteurs d'un service de naturalisation
Enquêter sur les déviances et la délinquance: Enjeux scientifiques et déontologiques; Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 2015. p. 238.Ethnography of a political ritual: speeches given to new Swiss citizens by representatives of the state
Citizenship Studies. 2015. DOI : 10.1080/13621025.2015.1006175.Bern: Integration Guidelines
Social Innovations in the Urban Context; Heidelberg: Springer, 2015. p. 313.Adalbert Evers & Anne-Marie Guillemard (Ed.), Social Policy and Citizenship. The Changing Landscape
Sociologie. 2013.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Architecture
Courses
Urban sociology
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.
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