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Maxime Felder

maxime.felder@epfl.ch

EPFL ENAC IA LASUR
BP 2241 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne

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

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

2018 – 2018 University of Geneva
Directed by Sandro Cattacin, Alessandro Monsutti

MA

| Sociology

2013 – 2013 University of Geneva

BA

| Social work, social policy and anthropology

2010 – 2010 University of Fribourg

Mes publications

Étude d'évaluation de la qualité de vie dans trois quartiers du canton de Genève. Analyse comparative

M. Felder; L. Bolomey; S. Realini; Y. Dubois; L. Pattaroni  et al.

2025

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“You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ” Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media

N. Viana Alzola; M. Felder

Housing, Theory and Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1080/14036096.2025.2550741.

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Voisinage

M. Felder

Géographies, un dictionnaire; Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2025.

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Die Schweiz von A(rbon) bis Z(ug). Porträt in 12 Städten

M. Felder; R. Albrecher; V. Kaufmann; Y. Pedrazzini

Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2024.

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De l'urbain ordinaire aux villes singulières

M. Felder; R. Albrecher; V. Kaufmann; Y. Pedrazzini

La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug) - portrait en 12 villes; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2024.

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Building up hospitable milieux from the arrival infrastructure

M. Felder; L. Pattaroni

19th International Conference of the International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE 2022), Oslo, Norway, June 29-July 1, 2022.

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L’hospitalité urbaine au risque de la contagion

J. Stavo-Debauge; M. Felder; L. Pattaroni

EspacesTemps.net. 2022.

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Forger la citoyenneté juvénile. Anthropologie d’un rituel politique

I. Csupor; M. Felder; L. Ossipow

Lausanne: Antipodes, 2022.

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Home and community, by Sandra Costa Santos, Nadia Bertolino, Stephen Hicks, Camilla Lewis and Vanessa May

M. Felder

Housing Studies. 2021. DOI : 10.1080/02673037.2021.1858529.

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Die Abgeschottete Stadt

M. Felder

COVID19 Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive; Zürich: Seismo Verlag, 2020.

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Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties: A Relational Perspective on Urban Coexistence

M. Felder

Sociology. 2020. DOI : 10.1177/0038038519895938.

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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