Dynamiques péri-urbaines

Objectives

The aim of the project is to study the extension of mixed spaces between urban and rural areas in Chennai metropolis fringes. The study will first focus on the mobility of the various activities, which shapes this new space : residential, productive, and commercial as well as social activities. The work will also take into account social and economic development in these intermediary spaces. Social forces will be identified for understanding modalities of changes in the context of this rapid urbanisation phenomena. Social conflicts will be analysed as main factors of local dynamics in the rural villages surrounding the urban agglomeration.

This project is part of the working group directed by Dr V. Dupont on Peri-urban dynamics at the CSH, Delhi : population, housing and environment in the peripheries of large Indian metropolises. The ultimate objective of this group is to improve knowledge about urban dynamics in the peripheries of large Indian metropolises. The aim will be to put together a series of studies and ideas in relation to this common problematic, to confront various disciplinary approaches and compare case studies of different Indian metropolises, and draw broad-based conclusions in order :

• To analyse the processes at work,
• To conduct a reflection on an appropriate socio-spatial classification of the populations and human settlements,
• And to promote ideas on the complex equation between population, housing and environment in these peri-urban spaces and the political challenges involved.

Materials and Methods

Two methods will be followed :

• On the one hand, an understanding of the area concerned by the urbanisation around Chennai metropolis will be approached through an analysis of census data at village level and remote sensing analysis in way to build a GIS focalising on this topic ;
• On the other hand, deep social and economic studies through enquiries will be conducted by interviews of local actors such as Panchayat presidents, entrepreneurs, white and blue collars, farmers as well as inhabitants in the villages.

Team

Researchers

• Dr Kamala MARIUS-GNANOU, Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University Bordeaux 3 (UMR ADES-TEMPOS Bordeaux 3 – CNRS), head of the project.
• Philippe CADENE, Professor of Human Geography at the University Paris 7 (UMR SEDET Paris 7-CNRS)

Research Assistants

• Venkata Subramanian, Research Assistant at the F.I.P.

Students (Master degree)

• Adèle Dunoyer, Master Université Paris 1,
• Sarah Jesu, Master Université Paris 7
• Marguerite Richard, Master Université Paris 1
• Rémi Dede, Etudiant Université Bordeaux 3
• Amélie Desgroppes, Master Université Bordeaux 3
• Philippe Timoner, Master Université Bordeaux 3

Partners

• ADES TEMPOS Bordeaux 3- CNRS, Bordeaux
• CEIAS, EHESS-CNRS, Paris
• C.S.H. New-Delhi
• SEDET, Paris 7-CNRS, Paris

Fundings

The project is funding on the research credits of the Institutions involved.

A special funding is provided by the French Ministry of Research in the framework of an « Action Concertée Incitative Espaces et territoires » named « Exploratory Research Workshop on : "Peri-urban dynamics : population, habitat and environment in the peripheries of large Indian metropolises" under the direction of Veronique Dupont, director of CSH.

Main Outputs

Chapters in books

• MARIUS-GNANOU K. & BRANGENBERG C., 2006. Mobilités de travail et reconstruction des rapports de genre : un exemple dans une vallée industrialisée du sud de l’Inde (Inde du Sud), In Liens et lieux de la mobilité : ces autres territoires, (dir. G.Capron, G.Cortès, H.Guetat-Bernard) Ed.Belin, coll. Mappemonde : 45-62

• MARIUS-GNANOU K.& BRANGENBERG C., 2006. Travail industriel féminin, mobilités socio-spatiales et rapports de genre, un exemple dans la vallée de la Palar (Inde du Sud), In Liens et lieux de la mobilité, des disqualifications sociales aux renégociations identitaires et territoriales, (dir. G.Capron, G.Cortès, H.Guetat) Ed.Belin, coll. Mappemonde

• MARIUS-GNANOU K. & HOFMANN E., 2006. De l’utilité d’intégrer l’outil genre dans les interventions de développement, In Empreintes et inventivités des femmes dans le développement rural (dir. H.Guétat & A.M. Grenier), IRD / Presses Universitaires du Mirail, Toulouse

• MARIUS-GNANOU K. & HOFMANN E., 2006. De l’utilité d’intégrer l’outil genre dans les interventions de développement, In Genre et développement (H. Guétat et alii. eds), Toulouse : IRD/PUM Presses Universitaires du Mirail : 108-125.

• MARIUS-GNANOU K., 2005. Travail industriel, mobilités socio-spatiales et nouvelle identité de genre, L’exemple d’un district industriel en Inde du Sud, In S. Arlaud, Y. Jean, D. Royoux (dir.), « Rural-urbain » : nouveaux liens, nouvelles frontières. Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

• RAZAK, A., 2006. Spatial Access Cost of Livelihood Needs of the Squatter Households in the Peri-uban Delhi, In Peri-Urban Interface, St. Josephs College of Management, Bangalore

Articles

• MARIUS-GNANOU K. & MORICONI-EBRARD F., 2007. Dynamiques d’urbanisa-tion : des megacities aux villages urbains, Urbanisme, 355.

• MARIUS-GNANOU K., 2006. Les enjeux économiques de l’après-tsunami, Problèmes Economiques n°2896:36-39

• CADENE P. & MARIUS-GNANOU K.,2006. Dynamics around the Indian metropolises : some findings from the Chennai experience, OCSH papers

Workshops

• National seminar on Metropolitan Transition in India, held at the School of Architecture and Planning, Anna University, Chennai, on August 30-31, 2007

• National seminar on Metropolitanisation : methods and analysis tools, held at the Maison des Suds, 12, Esplanade des Antilles, Pessac, France, on June 7, 2007.