Jean-Marc Stébé, professor of sociology at the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, is a member of the research unit 2L2S (Laboratoire lorrain de sciences sociales – Lorraine Laboratory for the Social Sciences), where he has conducted numerous studies on subjects such as social-housing neighbourhoods, territorial fragmentation and urban Utopias.
His publications include La Crise des banlieues (Presses universitaires de France, 2010), Le Logement social en France (Presses universitaires de France, 2009) and, with Hervé Marchal, Sociologie urbaine (Armand Colin, 2010), La Ville au risque du ghetto (Lavoisier 2010), Que sais-je ? La sociologie urbaine (Presses universitaires de France, 2010) and Mythologie des cités-ghettos (Le Cavalier Bleu, 2009).