La tour Eiffel dans la poche. Informalité et pouvoir dans la construction de la métropole touristique

Formality and informality, Global North and Global South as well as globalization from above and globalization on below are enduring dichotomies informing greatly our representations of cities. This paper envisions the overcoming of such oppositions by focusing on the power dynamics engaged by infor...

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Main Authors: Sandrine Berroir, Caroline Bouloc, Nadine Cattan, Antoine Fleury, Jean-Baptiste Frétigny, Ulysse Lassaube
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Language:English
Published: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes 2016-09-01
Series:L'Espace Politique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/3876
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description Formality and informality, Global North and Global South as well as globalization from above and globalization on below are enduring dichotomies informing greatly our representations of cities. This paper envisions the overcoming of such oppositions by focusing on the power dynamics engaged by informality in the very city centre of a so called Global North metropolis. The study of the spatial and social arrangements contracted between (in)formal stakeholders of several Parisian tourist attractions highlights the multiple ways in which the urban official order is infringed by the stakeholders of the informal economy on an everyday basis. Despite the strong apparatus of security, these stakeholders manage to assert themselves in the power relationships at stake in the public spaces and to build an alternative power geometry, allowing to grasp new forms of urban order at play. They turn out to be co-producers of the metropolis by reshaping tourist representations and practices as well as urban landscapes.
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spelling doaj-art-dc236a10a0c04ba4b1641888a7357f3d2025-08-20T03:47:38ZengUniversité de Reims Champagne-ArdennesL'Espace Politique1958-55002016-09-012910.4000/espacepolitique.3876La tour Eiffel dans la poche. Informalité et pouvoir dans la construction de la métropole touristiqueSandrine BerroirCaroline BoulocNadine CattanAntoine FleuryJean-Baptiste FrétignyUlysse LassaubeFormality and informality, Global North and Global South as well as globalization from above and globalization on below are enduring dichotomies informing greatly our representations of cities. This paper envisions the overcoming of such oppositions by focusing on the power dynamics engaged by informality in the very city centre of a so called Global North metropolis. The study of the spatial and social arrangements contracted between (in)formal stakeholders of several Parisian tourist attractions highlights the multiple ways in which the urban official order is infringed by the stakeholders of the informal economy on an everyday basis. Despite the strong apparatus of security, these stakeholders manage to assert themselves in the power relationships at stake in the public spaces and to build an alternative power geometry, allowing to grasp new forms of urban order at play. They turn out to be co-producers of the metropolis by reshaping tourist representations and practices as well as urban landscapes.https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/3876powerParismigrantstourismpublic spaceInformality
spellingShingle Sandrine Berroir
Caroline Bouloc
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Antoine Fleury
Jean-Baptiste Frétigny
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La tour Eiffel dans la poche. Informalité et pouvoir dans la construction de la métropole touristique
L'Espace Politique
power
Paris
migrants
tourism
public space
Informality
title La tour Eiffel dans la poche. Informalité et pouvoir dans la construction de la métropole touristique
title_full La tour Eiffel dans la poche. Informalité et pouvoir dans la construction de la métropole touristique
title_fullStr La tour Eiffel dans la poche. Informalité et pouvoir dans la construction de la métropole touristique
title_full_unstemmed La tour Eiffel dans la poche. Informalité et pouvoir dans la construction de la métropole touristique
title_short La tour Eiffel dans la poche. Informalité et pouvoir dans la construction de la métropole touristique
title_sort la tour eiffel dans la poche informalite et pouvoir dans la construction de la metropole touristique
topic power
Paris
migrants
tourism
public space
Informality
url https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/3876
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