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Tommaso Vitale, Sciences Po, Urban School, CEE
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Sociologist | Dean of Sciences Po Urban School | Researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Active in fostering empirical and theoretical research and mentoring emerging scholars in urban sociology and public policy
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How does finance profit from urban fear?
In Economy & Society, Deborah Fromm shows how insurers, police & security firms in Brazil turn violence into business — financializing protection itself.
Brilliant urban ethnography. #insurableness
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0308...
The business of protection: Insuring urban violence risks in contemporary Brazil
In Brazil’s major urban centres, auto and cargo theft constitute a vibrant illicit economy. Many of these assets are insured, and a vast array of private security providers operate to recover stole...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Open-access book: " City Makers and the Politics of Urban Diversity Governance. Comparative Approaches from Europe and Asia" edited by Jeremie Molho, Marie Gibert-Flutre & Kong Chong Ho. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #urban #sociology
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Amani Hassani – Navigating Colour-Blind Societies: Racial Governance and Urban Erasure in Denmark’s Ghetto Policies. 6.11.2025, 5:30pm-7:00pm CEST. www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit... #urban #sociology
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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L’art peut réensauvager la ville.
Aujourd’hui à Sciences Po : régénération urbaine, nature, justice et conflits fertiles.
17h–19h, Amphi Simone Veil.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Art can rewild the city.
Wednesday at Sciences Po: thinking urban regeneration through nature, care, and conflict that creates possibility.
5–7pm, Amphithéâtre Simone Veil.
Registration: tinyurl.com/urbannature-...
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Today at the Urban School of Sciences Po @scpoeurbaine : Navigating Colour-Blind Societies — a key webinar on racial governance and urban erasure in Denmark’s “ghetto” policies.
With Amani Hassani.
I will be discussant.
5:30–7:00 PM (CEST) — online. Registration: www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Very happy to be the discussant for this Cities are Back in Town webinar at Sciences Po!
🗓 Nov 6 | 5:30–7:00 PM (CEST)
Amani Hassani – Navigating Colour-Blind Societies: Racial Governance and Urban Erasure in Denmark.
👉 Register: www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
#UrbanSchool #SciencesPo
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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An inspiring evening at the @scpoeurbaine Urban School of Sciences Po
So proud of our students & alumni community!
Thanks to @insitu.sp & Sciences Po Urba for organizing this amazing dialogue on urban careers, governance & climate action.
🎓 Learn more: bit.ly/UrbanSchoolS...
November 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Venerdì 7 novembre modero il webinar “Sostenere il crescere in famiglie fragili”, a partire dal libro A casa d’altri (Comin, 2025).
Un confronto sul senso, le funzioni e la qualità sociale dell’educativa domiciliare.
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#Acasadaltri #Comin @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The Policy of #Refugee Reception and the Policing of #Public_Space in #Paris
by Marco Cremaschi & me
We show how moderate conflict & public space policing shape refugee reception—turning Paris into a field of regulation-in-progress
🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#UrbanGovernance #UrbanStudies
The Policy of Refugee Reception and the Policing of Public Space in Paris
This paper examines the reception and integration of asylum seekers in Paris, focusing on the governance of public spaces. Since 2015, the visibility of refugees in these areas has sparked civil aware...
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October 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The Policy of #Refugee Reception and the Policing of #Public_Space in #Paris
by Marco Cremaschi & me
We show how moderate conflict & public space policing shape refugee reception—turning Paris into a field of regulation-in-progress
🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#UrbanGovernance #UrbanStudies
The Policy of Refugee Reception and the Policing of Public Space in Paris
This paper examines the reception and integration of asylum seekers in Paris, focusing on the governance of public spaces. Since 2015, the visibility of refugees in these areas has sparked civil aware...
link.springer.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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#Danslesmédias 📰

Dans la revue "Urbanisme", @tommasovitale.bsky.social, professeur de sociologie au CEE et doyen de l'Ecole urbaine, revient sur l'origine de sa vocation pour les études urbaines et transmet sa vision de l'urbanisme.

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Vous êtes bien urbain… Tommaso Vitale
Tommaso Vitale, professeur de sociologie et doyen de l’École urbaine de Sciences-Po Quelle profession rêviez-vous d’exercer quand vous étiez enfant ?  Au fond, je voulais être scientifique : j’aimais ...
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September 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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📢 Cities Are Back in Town Webinar today 5 PM (CET) @SciencesPo.
Ana Beraldo de Carvalho on violence & solidarity in Latin American urban margins.
Discussant: Patrick Le Galès. As usual at Urban School.
👉 Register www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
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Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins. 02.10.2025, 5:00pm-6:30pm CEST
Zoom Compulsory registration Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins. In a favela in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, daily life unfolds in the stree...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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📢 Webinaire Cities Are Back in Town aujourd’hui 17h (CET) Ana Beraldo de Carvalho discute violence & solidarité dans les marges urbaines latino-américaines. Avec Patrick Le Galès. Comme d'habitude à l'Ecole Urbaine de Sciences Po.
👉 S’inscrire : www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins. 02.10.2025, 5:00pm-6:30pm CEST
Zoom Compulsory registration Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins. In a favela in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, daily life unfolds in the stree...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Future4Cities... The great festival!!!
September 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Tomorrow at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies (in Paris-Aubervilliers):

@tommasovitale.bsky.social will give a keynote lecture based on results of the @cncdh.fr annual barometer on racism. ⤵️

Programme of the conference: www.inalco.fr/en/events/co...
Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies, Paris 2025 24-25-26 September 2025 Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers) Organisers: The Gypsy Lore Society, Inalco, Institut Convergences Migrations, FNASAT, Médiathèque Matéo Maximoff VITALE Tommaso Living with Antigypsyism: Contentious Embeddedness and the Struggle for Recognition in France This keynote explores how antigypsyism structures social life in France, not only as prejudice but as a condition of living marked by stigma, contentious embeddedness, and dissonant recognition. Drawing on the CNCDH barometer, I show that hostility towards Roma and Traveller groups remains structurally higher than towards any other minority, sustaining a perception of radical otherness. Yet antigypsyism is more than a statistical pattern: it is reproduced and contested through public discourse, political agendas, media campaigns, and everyday encounters. Ethnographic and network studies reveal that Roma lives are deeply interwoven with neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and associations, where solidarity, hostility, and indifference coexist in fragile balance. Mobilizations—whether civic, religious, or school-based—demonstrate both the limits of inclusion and the generative role of conflict in reshaping boundaries and claims to dignity. At the same time, the emerging struggle over the memory of the Roma genocide illustrates how recognition unfolds in dissonant ways, simultaneously denied, affirmed, and politicized. Antigypsyism, I argue, is not a fixed legacy but a dynamic and contested process: it exposes the contradictions of plural democracy, while opening unexpected spaces for solidarity and new forms of recognition.
September 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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September 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Carte scolaire et ségrégation url:https://laviedesidees.fr/Carte-scolaire-et-segregation
September 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Comment faire face à la crise planetaire du logement ? C'est aujourd'hui. Au plaisir de vous retrouver ! All invited. Today we have organized a solemn conference to mark the start of the academic year with Anacláudia Rossbach, as usual at @sciencespo.bsky.social !
www.eventbrite.fr/e/urban-scho...
September 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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The Urban School of Sciences Po is honoured to welcome Anacláudia Rossbach, United Nation Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director of UN-Habitat, for our 2025 Academic Year Solemn Ceremony and Inaugural Conference
September 3, 5:00 p.m. 🔗 Mandatory registration ➡️ www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-urbain...
2025 Urban School Inaugural conference
With Anacláudia Rossbach, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat)
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August 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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And the session Cities for All Ages, Co-hosted with UCLG with Tommaso Vitale (Sciences Po, CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée, Urban School Dean).
April 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Policies to Decommodify and Revive the Right to Housing: Vitale, Tommaso Prof; Cafora, Silvia; Faccini, Jacopo Lareno
NEP/RePEc link
to paper
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April 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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sciencespo-cee.bsky.social Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · Jul 8
#ISAforum25 in Rabat

Marcela Alonso Ferreira, Eva Bossuyt, Patrick Le Galès and
@tommasovitale.bsky.social are there, all presenting papers, but also discussing or chairing sessions.

Full programme: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/foru...

@isa-sociology.org
327.3 - Institutional Conflicts in Urban Land Use: Land Regularization in Environmental Conservation Areas in Mexico City and São Paulo Thursday, 10 July 2025 15:30 - 15:45 ASJE011 (Bloc 1, Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences) Primary Author Marcela Alonso Ferreira Sciences Po Abstract There is a broad consensus that public policies must be changed to address the urgent challenges of climate change. However, environmental policies may clash with social policies, placing policymakers and politicians in a dilemma about which policies to pursue. This paper explores a recurring conflict in large Global South cities: between environmental conservation areas and the regularization of informal settlements. Focusing on Mexico City and São Paulo, where informal settlements have expanded into areas designated as conservation and watershed protection zones, housing 242,000 people and 172,000 households, respectively, it investigates how this conflict played out from the 1990s to the 2020s. Using a comparative process-tracing methodology, it explores how land regularization was made “compatible” with environmental regulations in both cases. However, the leading actors, arrangements, and outcomes differed substantially. In Mexico City, the city government avoided taking sides and delegated decision-making to a collegiate body of multiple actors. With the upper hand of environmentalists, the collegiate developed a complex procedure to assess environmental damage and implement mitigation. While inefficient in practice, it allowed the government to avoid blame and partially address both sides' concerns. In São Paulo, a pro-housing coalition of bureaucrats embedded in civil society pushed for legal changes, especially during the Workers' Party mandates. They leveraged political connections and partisan alignment at local and federal levels to override environmental rules and frame land regularization as environmentally beneficial. In summary, the arrangeme… 258.3 - Connecting Value Regimes: The Role of Brokers in the Transnational Used Clothing Economy Friday, 11 July 2025 13:30 - 13:45 FSE005 (Faculty of Education Sciences) Primary Author Eva Bossuyt Abstract The ways organizations create and assign value have long been studied through the lens of global value chains. Drawing on this legacy, this paper examines the transnational circulation of used clothing in France, Chile, and Bolivia to analyze local-to-global processes of valuation and commodification. Ethnographic research in these three contexts provides the basis for analyzing the classification activities of brokers, with a particular emphasis on exporters in France and importers of used clothing in Chile and Bolivia. The materiality and value of this object are explored in various settings, from French collection bins and sorting warehouses to Chilean landfills and Bolivian street markets. This reconstitution of the social life of clothing enables the identification of intersections, frictions, and nodes of valuation across the Global North and South. The paper demonstrates that brokers in the used clothing value chain translate and connect different value regimes – through sorting and grading – to seize trade opportunities. I argue that this entrepreneurial strategy for capital accumulation coexists with a new grammar of worth under the Anthropocene, wherein the concept of circular economy serves as an industrial imperative for value extension and extraction. This contribution highlights the importance of considering the mobility and diversity of used clothing – from unsold items to gifts and waste – in understanding the coexistence of value regimes, the peripheries of valuation processes, the boundaries of capitalist value, and the standardization and disputes over value regimes in transnational contexts. 312.1 - French Upper Middle Classes in London : Illusions, Circulations and Rootedness Tuesday, 8 July 2025 13:00 - 13:15 ASJE016 (Bloc 1, Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences) Primary Author Patrick Le Galès CNRS Sciences Po Abstract Upper middle classes in London had everything ....so they thought : prestige and recognition from the British population, professional success, the amenities of the British cosmopolitan city... and a French way of life in particular enclaves. The analysis of three waves of original interviews in London (2017, 2019, 2004) reveals 1) the trauma of Brexit and the adaptation strategy of this group both transnationally and within London and 2) a more differentiated pattern between those who take london as one destination among a professional trajectory that brings them also to New York, HK and Singapore and those French whose experience in London is the only transnational experience, organising their life between Paris and London. The research also contrasts those who stay in the traditional enclave of Kensington and those who followed the opening of about 10 French schools in the greater London with more disperse and diverse way of life. The paper is a contribution to the hypothesis about the making of a transnational upper middle class between Paris and London and the game of distance and proximity they play in London with other social and ethnic groups. 331.1 - Temporary Shelters and Roma Housing Inclusion: Policy Learning and the Politics of Incremental Care Friday, 11 July 2025 09:00 - 09:12 ASJE011 (Bloc 1, Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences) Primary Author Tommaso Vitale Abstract In Europe, a considerable number of cities have established provisional accommodations for the Roma population, based on ethnicity, to address acute housing insecurity. In the event of eviction, fire, or destruction of a shantytown, individuals may be offered shelter in these facilities. In certain instances, access may be granted in the event of extreme weather conditions or following the birth of a child. The shelters provide a range of housing assistance programs, offering temporary accommodation for women and their children or for the entire household. Emergency shelters are designed to be provisional solutions, to prevent individuals from residing in unsuitable locations or on the streets. Such facilities are staffed on-site to provide social support, focusing on facilitating access to stable employment and housing. How did they successfully navigate the inherent tension between providing care and maintaining control? This study aims to analyze whether these facilities are merely substandard shelters or represent a potential avenue for social care, support, and empowerment. What forms of criticism have social workers, volunteers, recipients, and local policymakers encountered regarding these shelters? Has there been an observable improvement in the quality of care provided? A total of 128 in-depth interviews and 10 focus groups were conducted with individuals who self-identified as Roma. Furthermore, 27 interviews were conducted with policymakers and administrators, activists, and other key informants at the local, regional, and national levels. The case studies were conducted in Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Gyöngyös, Miskolc, Sighișoara, and Sfântu Gheorghe. The paper elucidates how temporary shelters f…
July 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Great new research involving my colleague @brunocousin.bsky.social comparing world elites. There is a new database and an article in the FT www.ft.com/content/ff0a... it that I can invite you to read! worldelitedatabase.org
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WED
We are an international consortium of scholars from Chile, China, Denmark, Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.
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April 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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On behalf of the entire Urban School of Sciences Po, I would like to express our deepest gratitude to the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions & Cities for organising the upcoming Urban Days. www.oecd-events.org/oecd-urban-d...
OECD URBAN DAYS
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April 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM