Clément Barbier

Clément Barbier is an assistant professor at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF) in Valenciennes, northern France, where he is a member of the Larsh research unit (Laboratoire de Recherche Sociétés et Humanités – Societies and Humanities Research Laboratory), and is an associate researcher at Ceraps (Centre d’études et de recherches administratives, politiques et sociales – Centre for Administrative, Political and Social Studies and Research) in Lille.

His work has focused on the localized government of transformations of capitalism, beginning with his PhD dissertation in political science, defended in 2015, which presents a comparative sociology of major urban renewal projects in the Lille and Hamburg urban areas. Between 2017 and 2019, within the framework of the ANR WORKLOG project, he has contributed to Franco-German research into the socio-occupational trajectories and nonwork activities of logistics workers. He is also currently participating in a collective study of real-estate (re)conversions undertaken by the wealthy industrial classes in northern France.

His recent publications include: “Les régimes d’emploi précaire dans le secteur logistique”, with Cécile Cuny and David Gaborieau, in Travail et Emploi in 2020; “Détruire pour mieux reconstruire ? Sociogenèse de la friche de l’Union dans l’agglomération de Lille (1990-2006)” in Genèses in 2019; and “Défendre une cause perdue ? La gestion des contradictions d’un grand projet de renouvellement urbain dans l’agglomération lilloise (2007-2015)”, also in 2019, in Politix.